Russian military conducts confidence-building visit to Lapland Air Command in the Finnish Arctic
A team of Russian officers has arrived in northern Finland to conduct a confidence and security-building evaluation visit of the
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Finland to upgrade Arctic border-crossing point to welcome more traffic from northern Russia
More than €11 million will be invested in brand new infrastructure facilities at the northernmost checkpoint between the countries. The
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Finland ranks third, ahead of Sweden and Norway, in international pension study
An international study measuring retirement income systems of 34 different countries has ranked Finland as having the third-best in the
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Finnish company turns used batteries into fertilizer
Finnish company Tracegrow has created a method for extracting substances inside used alkaline batteries that can be repurposed and used
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Finnish government proposes banning coal by 2029
Finland’s government proposed on Thursday that the use of coal to produce electricity or heat should be banned by 2029.
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Autumn chill setting in across Finland
Southern and central Finland are seeing scattered showers on Thursday, though rains will move eastward towards the end of the
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Finnish government survives confidence vote on bill weakening job security
MPs held a confidence vote on Wednesday afternoon, and by a margin of 101-73 Finnish lawmakers effectively approved a law
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Finland’s endangered Saimaa seal population climbing back
The population of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal has risen to 392 individuals in Finland, according to the Ministry of
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Radioactive material found in scrap metal at northern Finland plant
Radioactive material has ended up in a Tornio steel smelter three times in recent months, says the Radiation and Nuclear
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Elk hunting season increasingly bringing hunters and joggers in same areas in Finland
Elk hunting season in Finland began on Saturday, 13 October and runs through 31 December, with 54,653 hunting permits issued
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Finland breaks October records with temperatures above 20 degrees
On Sunday around 2:30 PM meteorologists in Ylivieska (central Finland), some 130 kilometres south of Oulu, recorded a high of
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Northern nations pledge to reduce black coal emissions during Arctic biodiversity talks in Finland
Environment ministers of Arctic states said Friday that they want to cut down on the use of black coal, which
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Report highlights Finland’s top 5 housing problems
Parliament’s audit committee issued a report on Tuesday outlining five major problems with housing policy in Finland. The committee concluded
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Arctic environment ministers gather in Finland to tackle climate change, biodiversity & pollution
For the first time in five years, environment ministers from the world’s eight circumpolar nations are gathering as a group
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Scientists and leaders gather in Finnish north to talk Arctic biodiversity
Finland is hosting the Arctic Biodiversity Congress this week, where 450 scientists, government officials, indigenous peoples and experts from 26
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