Is wind power coming to Helsinki, Finland?
Lumituuli Oy, one of the first Finnish customer-owned wind power producers, has its eyes on the windy city of Helsinki.
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Environment (Finland)
No basis for Greenpeace piracy charges says Finland
Finland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Erkki Tuomioja, has said that Finland will continue to offer support to the Finnish
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Climate change affecting Finland’s Arctic hares
When you see a hare in Finland, it’s likely to be a brown hare, also known as a European hare
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Sewage leaks into Finland’s Maskunjoki River
Following a sewage leak, the condition of Maskunjoki River in Southwestern Finland is being investigated as an environmental accident. A
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Microplastics – the latest threat to the Baltic
Microplastics are small particles of plastic in the environment, so tiny as to often be invisible to the naked eye.
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Finland blocks ringed seal hunting
Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is permitting up to 1,050 grey seals to be taken by hunters this season,
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Farmers eye weather as harvest season approaches in Finland
As the grain crops begin to yellow, the start of the threshing season approaches for Finnish farmers. The harvest is
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Finland aims to reduce lynx population
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry wants to add a number of species to hunters’ hit lists – including endangered
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Cloudberry season underway in Finnish Lapland
In central and northern Lapland the berry season is now in full swing. In Muonio the first ripe cloudberries were
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July snow in Finnish Lapland
Snow fell in North-Eastern Lapland, Finland’s northernmost region, on Sunday, covering many of the fells. Snowfall and subzero night temperatures
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North Karelia, Finland swelters in new heat record
Temperatures exceeded the 30-degree level in many parts of Eastern Finland. In the municipality of Liperi, near the municipality of
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Worries over berry harvest in North Karelia, Finland
The heat wave in Finland has accelerated this year’s strawberry harvest, which ripens this week. However, there’s currently a shortage
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Finland inaugurates radio telescope in Arctic
The largest radio telescope in Finland was formally inaugurated this past week at Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland. Known as KAIRA
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Heat wave takes ‘time out’ in North Finland
Temperatures in northern Finland are expected to fall below 10 degrees Celsius next week. Even in the south, daytime highs
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Finnish Lapland sets heat record
Temperatures reached unusually high levels in Lapland on Thursday, with 29 degrees Celsius recorded in Ylitornio. That is the highest
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