Sweden to share more intel with Finland, NATO
Sweden will have more joint military exercises and share more intelligence with both Finland and the military alliance NATO, Defence
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Baltic Sea health shows improvement: researchers
The health of the highly-polluted Baltic Sea appears to be improving. Despite continuing periodic algae blooms and dead zones in
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Greenpeace activists divert Helsinki-bound coal ship
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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Finns on fence about NATO
A new poll commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle shows that 55 percent of Finns are opposed to NATO
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Experts question Finland’s energy decisions, data
Professors at the Lappeenranta University of Technology charge that Finland’s energy decisions are made based on misleading data. Officials at
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Blog: Reindeer, oil at Energy Summit
Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in
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Russia brands Arctic indigenous organization as “foreign agent”
The Nenets organization Yasavey Manzara is the first indigenous peoples´ organization in the Barents Region to be declared “foreign agents”.
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Norway visa rules worry indigenous peoples
Andrey Vokuev in Naryan-Mar, Russia, fears for the cooperation between indigenous peoples. Next week, applicants from the Nenets tundra will
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Unemployment looms in Norway
After a decade with plenty of jobs, unemployment in Norway takes an upturn. Jobless figures remain low, but the trend
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Finnish exports to Russia down more than 35 percent
Finnish exports to Russia have been declining since 2013, when Russia was still Finland’s largest trading partner. Finnish Customs reported
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Finns need Swedish, say Norway employers
Norwegian business leaders and academics interviewed by Yle’s Swedish-language news service say they are disappointed in the overall level of
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Wind power growing most in North Finland
Northern Finland moves with the winds, outpaces neighboring Nordic regions in wind power generation. Figures assembled by Patchwork Barents show that the
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Sweden tackles microplastics problem
Sweden wants to reduce the environmental spreading of microplastics, the small particles of plastic that can be found in skin
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Solar power prospects good in Finland despite rainy summer
Despite this summer’s cloudy weather, the amount of solar energy produced this year in Finland is about the same as
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Climate change could threaten Sweden’s shrimp
Warmer water as a consequence of climate change could threaten Swedish shrimp production on the west coast, as the animals
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