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Finnish youth on strike for climate action

Tahira Sequeira and Egan Richardson, Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 10:32 — Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 18:11
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Some 18,000 people gathered in central Helsinki to demand action on greenhouse gas emissions, part of a nationwide wave of

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Climate activists block cruise ship in Helsinki

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 13:47 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:31
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Cruise ship visitors were delayed in Helsinki on Wednesday evening after climate activists blocked the MS Queen Elizabeth at Hernesaari

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Finnish activists to carve giant Trump sculpture on melting glacier

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:29 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 10:31
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The Finnish activist group Melting Ice is raising money in order to carve a 35 metre-tall ice sculpture of US

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Greenpeace activists divert Helsinki-bound coal ship

Yle News
Posted: Monday, November 2, 2015 at 16:47 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Early Sunday morning the environmental activist group Greenpeace managed to board and get a coal-carrying freighter on its way from

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with Gazprom Head Alexei Miller as he attends a video call with the Prirazlomnaya arctic oil platform marking the launch of production in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 18, 2014. (Alexei Druzhinin / RIA-Novosti / Presidential Press Service / AP )
Blog Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Blog: Putin signs law allowing oil and gas corporations to defend infrastructure

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2014 at 15:42
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On September 28, 2013, 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists sailing on the non-profit organization’s icebreaker, Arctic Sunrise, boarded Russia’s

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Feature

Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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