northern Europe

Expanding the euro-zone bailout fund is controversial across much of northern Europe, where many people complain they are being forced to pay for the mistakes of their profligate southern neighbors.

German Vote Bolsters Rescue William Boston 2011

The Typhoon, originally called the Eurofighter and conceived in the 1980s to attack Soviet planes in the skies of northern Europe, has ballooned into a £37bn project.

RAF forced to cut training hours for pilots on new Typhoon jet 2011

The Northern hemisphere? the US, Canada, Russia and northern Europe? produces 80% of the world's wheat supply.

UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots 2010

Against a backdrop of high inventories and sluggish demand, prices had been buffeted by the loss of about 1 million barrels a day in jet fuel demand as the ash cloud from the volcanic eruption in Iceland grounded air travel in northern Europe.

Crude Bounces Back Above $83 2010

Chris Stringer, a Stone Age specialist and head of human origins at London's Natural History Museum, said: What was considered a major piece of evidence showing that the Neanderthals once lived in northern Europe has fallen by the wayside.

The Panda's Thumb: Jim Foley Archives 2010

Only a minority — those descended from herding cultures in northern Europe and parts of Africa — have a mutation that allows them continue to break down lactose into adulthood.

Why Do People Become Lactose-Intolerant? 2010

And even olive oil is a relatively new innovation in home-cooking in northern Europe.

Marshall Fine: Sustainable, healthy, tasty cooking oil - from hemp? 2010

At this point, scientists think Iceland's eruption is too small to cause cooling although the massive disruption it caused to air travel in northern Europe may have significantly reduced aviation-linked carbon dioxide emissions.

DK Matai: Are Global Warming, Volcanoes and Earthquakes Linked? 2010

At this point, scientists think Iceland's eruption is too small to cause cooling although the massive disruption it caused to air travel in northern Europe may have significantly reduced aviation-linked carbon dioxide emissions.

DK Matai: Are Global Warming, Volcanoes and Earthquakes Linked? 2010

Overall, the synthesis of regional C flux information from measurements at several sites in northern Europe and Greenland (the Land Arctic Physical Processes project [17]) indicates that arctic landscapes are remarkably similar in their C fluxes during midsummer, but the length of the growing season and the shoulder season fluxes are the key determinants for the net annual fluxes.

Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009