Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores
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Finland's Linnunsuo wetland used to be a barren "moonscape" – local fishing communities have transformed it into a biodiverse haven and an important carbon sink
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Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years
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Scottish company Gravitricity is using the Pyhäjärvi mine in Finland to build its first full-scale prototype gravity energy store
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Lessons from Finland's attempt to transition to a circular economy
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Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped in Skåne – travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries
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Finland and Italy seek to hinder restrictions on single-use packaging ahead of next week's gathering of EU ministers in Brussels
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Denmark, Finland and Panama aim to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit – that will take giving nature a boost
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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Norway is among the countries with the most heat pumps per capita, along with neighbouring Finland and Sweden
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Estonia-Finland pipeline explosion – what's the evidence that the damage was deliberate?
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NATO will discuss damage to gas pipeline running between Finland and Estonia – will mount a determined response if a deliberate attack is proven
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Baltic Sea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia is shut down over a suspected leak
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Microplastics in the mud – Finnish lake sediments help us get to the bottom of plastic pollution
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms
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How Finland is betting on nuclear power, and its waste | Focus on Europe
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Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term
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The Huussi toilet in Finland's pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale disposes of waste without any water
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Finland's vast network of tunnels 400m underground will soon begin operating as the world's first spent nuclear fuel disposal facility
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Europe's nuclear divide grows – first new plant in sixteen years comes on stream in Finland day after Germany pulls plug on last reactors
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Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday
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Cash-strapped Finnish zoo is preparing to return two giant pandas on loan from China as it can no longer afford their upkeep
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Finland gets first floating liquefied natural gas terminal – will ensure future availability of gas, replacing supplies earlier imported from Russia
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Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
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In Finland, where forests cover around 75% of land, the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy has sparked outrage in the forestry industry, as well as the government
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A new way of storing renewable energy is providing clean heat – the Vatajankoski power plant is home to the world's first commercial-scale sand battery
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Finland hopes new nuclear reactor eases energy crunch – Olkiluoto 3 will be able to produce about one-fifth of the electricity the country consumes
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Finnish utility Fortum plans to add 560 megawatt capacity by reactivating an idle coal-fired power plant on Finland's west coast
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Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours
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Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
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Can Finland and Sweden help decarbonize EU economies? Geopolitical realities and pandemic-related supply chain issues are increasing the pressure on EU
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Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor started test production on Saturday
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Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules
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Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice
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TVO cleared for fuel loading at Olkiluoto Unit 3
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Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data
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Lahti in Finland is the European Green Capital for 2021 – a recognition from Brussels for cities that have impressive environmental credentials
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Lapland town of Salla highlights climate crisis with 2032 Olympics campaign – tongue-in-cheek promotional video seeks to highlight alarming climate variations
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further
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Helsinki has donated €50,000 towards Baltic Sea protection, for use in the new Baltic Sea Challenge campaign to help prevent plastic waste
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
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Common gas market for Finland, Estonia and Latvia launches following the completion of the Balticonnector pipeline last month
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The hiding place: Inside the world's first long-term storage facilty for highly radioactive nuclear waste
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How Helsinki is using a big cash prize to find a sustainable solution to heating the city
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