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Statistics Norway’s new-base cost index for road freight and van transport stood at 101.9 in the third quarter of 2026 for the aggregate excluding tolls and ferry costs, 2.8% above the second quarter and 5.9% above a year earlier. The reference period is now Q1 2026 = 100, with new weights introduced from Q2.
September bulletins from the Bank of Russia describe falling food prices on stronger supply in Perm and fuel and electronics pressures in Sverdlovsk.
Statistics Norway reported that Norwegian trucks carried 71.4 million tonnes of goods on domestic routes in the second quarter of 2026, 6.9% more than a year earlier. Domestic transport work reached 5.8 billion tonne-kilometres, up 2.9%; international transport work fell 4.4%, leaving total work at 6.2 billion tonne-kilometres.
Istat's World Food Day release says 2.2% of Italy's resident population experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2025. The rate was 2.9% in the south and 1.8% in both the north and centre.
Statistics Norway found that legally certified sick leave increased by 0.7 percentage points from 2015 to 2025. Its decomposition analysis indicates that changes in sick leave within worker groups, rather than shifts in workforce composition across the dimensions studied, drove most of the increase.
Statistics Norway reported NOK 52.93 billion in environmental taxes in 2025, up 10.0% from 2024. Taxes on greenhouse-gas emissions, including emissions allowances, totalled NOK 42.565 billion, an increase of 15.4%.
Italy's non-observed economy was valued at €218.2 billion in 2024, while its share of GDP fell to 9.9%, Istat reported. The institute reports the underground economy and illegal activities as separate components.
Statistics Norway estimates that Norwegian households held NOK 113 billion in interest-bearing unsecured debt in 2024. Nearly four in ten people belonged to a household with some such debt, but only 5.1% of people—278,700—met SSB’s indicator for burdensome unsecured debt.
The university is testing food waste with about 120,000 larvae across 30 bins. Researchers describe safety steps for contamination, Salmonella and frass handling.
A new tool visualizes Norwegian agriculture income and cost statistics. NIBIO says purchased feed accounted for 26% of costs, or NOK 11.6 billion, in 2025.
Ohio State researchers reported that organizing crystal defects into dense networks strengthened two metal alloys without changing their chemical composition. The study, published in Science on October 15, examined a cobalt-nickel superalloy and a cobalt-chromium-tungsten alloy.
A Columbia study identified lithium-ion clusters in common battery electrolytes with experimental validation.
