With thousands of islands to choose from, Europe has plenty of opportunities to escape the crowds and high prices of tourist ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...

Sweden's southern county has plenty of unique Scandinavian towns and pristine landscapes to enjoy while leisurely hiking ...

Paf, the sole gaming company of Finland’s autonomous Åland Islands, has raised €21.5m to maintain its social activities, ...

With rainy winters, ties to Britain dating back 200 years and dozens of proper pubs, the port is affectionately known as Sweden's 'Little London'.

A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate could be weakening.

The island briefly fell under the protection of the United States, which was interested in its critical weather stations, after Germany occupied Denmark during World War II. President Harry Truman ...

But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks ...

A map of the Baltic Sea showing a fibre ... sent a vessel to help investigate the incident off the island of Gotland on Friday. Sweden's prosecution authority said it was not involved in the ...

One European country, not too far from the UK, holds the record for the most islands anywhere on the planet. That country is Sweden, which is home to 267,570 islands - more than any other nation.