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Finnish innovations for overcoming plastic waste

The world needs a wide range of innovations if it is to rise to the challenge of reducing single-use plastic. Numerous start-ups and companies in Finland are working to devise solutions.

Business & innovation Sustainability

Finnish wood works

Light, strong, warm and environmentally friendly, wood is making a comeback in construction and popping up in some unexpected applications.

Arts & culture Literature

“The world was very large in those days”: A brief guide to Finland’s Moomin books

Here’s our concise list of the Moomin novels, by Tove Jansson, perhaps Finland’s most famous writer and artist. Relive the adventures, or, if you’ve only seen the comic strips, discover the original books. Plus: A slideshow takes you inside the National Museum’s Moomin exhibition.

2,077

people in Finland speak Sámi as their mother tongue

Source: Statistics Finland

Christmas Christmas cuisine

A Finnish chef puts a fresh spin on Christmas recipes

We meet chef Timo Lepistö to get some refreshing new versions of Finnish Christmas recipes and discuss his favourite things about Christmas in Finland, in an article that is sure to make you hungry.

Life & society Sustainability

Living everyday life sustainably in Finland

Knowledge shared is knowledge doubled: We see how one woman’s idea became upcycled into a community information centre.

Business & innovation Technology

Search engine giants find innovative energy for data centres in Finland

Finland’s stable society, high-tech fluency and Nordic weather attracted Google and Yandex to set up data centres with inventive energy solutions. We visit them about half a decade after Yandex arrived and almost a decade after Google moved in.

Arts & culture Webpick

Hometown Helsinki holds special place in choreographer’s heart

Dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Ima Iduozee has gained international acclaim and travelled around the world, but Helsinki is dear to him. (Article includes video clip.)

Life & society Nature

Magical ice-skating video from northern Finland wows viewers

Photographer Esko Liukas and figure skater Tiina Pakkanen created a video in which she appears to be gliding across the water of a lake in the Finnish far north.

292 votes

Amount of votes Finland got when winning the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest

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