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Report flags billion dollar textile recycling potential
Ecotextile News
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August 20, 2025
HELSINKI - Textile recycling could become a billion dollar business with the potential for hundreds of industrial scale plants across Europe, according to a new report. The study, from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, says recycling...
Finland’s former archiater Risto Pelkonen dies at 94
Helsinki Times
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August 19, 2025
Risto Pelkonen, Finland’s former archiater and one of the country’s most recognisable medical figures, has died at the age of 94. The Finnish Medical Association and the medical society Duodecim confirmed his death on Tuesday after a short...
Borealis and Loiste Sign Agreement to Reuse Data Center Waste Heat in Finland
HPCwire
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August 19, 2025
KAJAANI, Finland, Aug. 19, 2025 — Borealis Data Center and public utility Loiste Lämpö Oy have signed an agreement to recover and reuse waste heat generated by Borealis Data Center’s campus in Kajaani. The partnership enables full-scale...
Finland connects with Vietnamese startups at incubation meetup in Hanoi
ScandAsia
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August 19, 2025
ShareSharePin ItShare Business Finland is participating in Incubation Meetup at Next Wave of Startups 2025 in Hanoi. The Embassy of Finland in Hanoi has announced that Finnish startup experts from Business Finland and Sisu Factory will join the...
Bishops warn of Creation in crisis amid climate disasters
Vatican News
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August 19, 2025
Church leaders have voiced alarm about the state of the earth ahead of the annual “Season of Creation,” when Christians worldwide dedicate more than a month to prayer for creation. Their concern comes as officials say that climate-linked disasters...
Spain’s huge wildfires stabilising as cooler weather fuels hope the worst is over
The Straits Times
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August 19, 2025
GONDULFES, Spain – Wildfires raging in northern and western Spain have burned through nearly the same area in the past 24 hours as in all of 2024, although the end of a 16-day heatwave and expected rainfall have fanned hopes that an end may be in...
Georgia participates in Early Warning Systems meeting in Helsinki
Georgia Online
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August 19, 2025
The Head of the National Environment Agency of Georgia, Elene Ghubianur, participated in the meeting, which was held on the initiative of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) – “Early Warning Systems in the South Caucasus Early Warning For...
Stora Enso inaugurates modern packaging production line at Oulu mill in Finland
Packaging Gateway
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August 19, 2025
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has inaugurated its modern consumer packaging board production line at its Oulu mill in Finland, following a €1.1bn ($1.2bn) investment. The investment is part of a larger €1.7bn investment in the...
Finland’s war on fake news starts in schools. AI could make that a lot harder
Euronews
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August 19, 2025
In a Finnish classroom full of children under six earlier this year, a teacher suggested writing a story as a group using a new online tool – artificial intelligence (AI). With the teacher’s help, the children decided the genre (horror), the...
Finland’s quirky sand skiing world championship also carries a climate warning
This is Finland
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August 19, 2025
As skiers and spectators arrive at Kalajoki’s golden sand dunes for the world’s first Sand Skiing World Championships, a sense of excitement and laidback adventure is in the air. Cross-country skiing, a cherished sport in Finland, takes on a...
How Helsinki cut traffic deaths to zero with help of smart city planning
Deutsche Welle
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August 19, 2025
Zero. That is the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Helsinki, Finland, during the last 12 months. Other cities have achieved this feat, such as the Norwegian capital, Oslo, in 2019. However, Helsinki, which is home to almost 690,000...
St1 to open its first EV-only charging station in Finland
Petrol Plaza
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August 19, 2025
The move marks a milestone in the company's Nordic strategy to phase out fossil fuels and expand ultra-fast charging network.St1 will open its first electric vehicle (EV)-only charging station in Finland at the Shell Ylöjärvi site, which has...
Hydrogen Backbone Finland: Gasgrid Finland Launches Environmental Review for National Pipeline Project
Hydrogen Fuel News
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August 19, 2025
On August 18, 2025, Gasgrid Finland Oy kicked off a landmark environmental impact assessment (EIA) for its first-phase national hydrogen transmission backbone, running all the way from Tornio up in Lapland down to Porvoo on the south coast. That...
Finland’s offbeat third city — with 40,000 islands in its backyard
The Times
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Let’s get one thing out of the way: you’re not here for gob-smacking architecture. Despite Turku’s claim to being Finland’s oldest city — it was first documented in 1229 and until the early 1800s was the country’s capital — a fire in 1827 means...
How Helsinki cut traffic deaths to zero with smart planning
Deutsche Welle
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August 19, 2025
Zero. That is the number of people killed in traffic accidents in Helsinki, Finland, during the last year. Other cities have achieved this feat, such as the Norwegian capital, Oslo, in 2019. However, Helsinki, which has almost 690,000 people, is...
Finland and Vietnam launch milk-project
ScandAsia
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August 18, 2025
ShareSharePin ItShare Finnish ambassador, Keijo Norvanto, and and Deputy Head of Mission Riikka Seppälä, attended the “Responsibility Journey” event in Hanoi on 12 August. Photo: Facebook The Finnish Ambassador of Vietnam, Keijo Norvanto, finished...
Deadly Nordic heat wave made 10 times worse by climate change: Study
Mongabay
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August 19, 2025
A deadly heat wave in July that left people and wildlife struggling in Norway, Sweden and Finland was made at least 10 times more likely because of human-induced climate change, a rapid analysis has found. Scientists from the World Weather...
Cost-saving shift to large daycare centres sparks debate in Finland
Helsinki Times
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August 18, 2025
Finnish municipalities are increasingly replacing small daycare units with large, centralised centres in a drive to reduce maintenance costs, prompting debate about the impact on children and staff. In Jyväskylä, five-year-old Jalo Jäppinen...
Stora Enso’s billion-euro investment in renewable packaging – Europe’s most modern consumer board production line inaugurated in Finland
Canadian Packaging
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August 18, 2025
The largest and most modern consumer packaging board production line in Europe was inaugurated on 18 August in Oulu, Finland. The new line was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Finland Petteri Orpo, chair of Stora Enso’s board of directors Kari...
"Deadly Nordic Heatwave Supercharged By Climate Crisis, Scientists Say"
The Environmental Magazine
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August 18, 2025
"Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms" "The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows “no country is safe from climate change”,...