India will soon play a major role

SIRPA Pietikainen, Finland's environment minister, says the world has quite a few things to learn from India, especially when it comes to …

Bear truths

THE CAVE BEAR STORY: LIFE AND DEATH OF A VANISHED ANIMAL Bjorn Kurten - Columbia University Press - Unpriced

Baby fat is out

Researchers have concluded that high-fat diets for infants might have an adverse efteq on their later lives

Finnish belt-tightening chokes green projects

Faced with the century's worst recession Helsinki has had to cut back heavily on development aid. At stake are several international …

Roasted North: Why record-shattering heatwaves are burning the northern hemisphere

The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are now frequent, early, intense and last longer as seen in Siberia last year and North America this year

EU, first climate neutral continent by 2050, needs 60% reduction in emissions by 2030

Negotiations need to identify concrete hooks to bring every country to the table and agree on the target collectively

Human activities are eating into reindeer grazing land in Europe

Multiple stresses affect 60% of Fennoscandia region; High risk of vegetation and landscape change in the future, finds study

Protected areas can help water birds adapt to climate change: Study

The shift in range of wintering water birds across protected areas in Europe and North Africa was 40 per cent faster than others

Row n-gulfs Finland

Environmentalists see red as Finnish lawmakers give a green light to yet another nuclear reactor

Denmark imposes fat tax

The surcharge will be levied on food items containing more than 2.3 per cent saturated fat.

India's nuclear chimera

Going by the Kudankulan example, India’s nuclear power generation target is a pie in the sky

Caught in the net

The recent ban on shark hunting is only a partial victory for the conservationists. To make it a success, better networking between the coastal …

Sami relief

Right to byte

Internet>> Legal Rights ÔÇó Finland

Why a country with one of world’s best education systems wants reforms now?

Finland will now do away with subjects like history, geography, math by next year

Terror tactics

Youtube>> Mcdonald’s • Finland

The unfit bill

HUMANE MATTRESS

Defying gravity

Infectious and wholesome

No antibiotics please

Bubble gum therapy

An Indian idea gets the world on its feet

Suddenly padyatras are being used as a new form of social mobilisation, all over the world

COUNTING GREEN WEALTH

Ruby’s Benefactors

Computer Programming>>Crowd Funding • Finland