GDS-Index 2025: Helsinki tops again; Adelaide most improved

The Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index) unveils its 2025 Top 40 rankings, marking a decade of pioneering destination sustainability benchmarking. This year’s theme, Shifting Tides, reflects a period of global transition during...

Space and Ice: Envisioning Special Operations Forces’ Role in Future Operational Environments

Editor’s Note: this article is being republished with the permission of the Irregular Warfare Initiative as part of a republishing arrangement between IWI and SWJ. The original article was published on 24 July 2025 and is available here. New...

'Not like Russia & China': Finland hails India as 'emerging superpower'

NEW DELHI: Finland's President Alexander Stubb recently distinguished India from Russia and China, calling New Delhi an "emerging superpower" and urging Western countries to engage more closely with it.In a Bloomberg Podcasts interview, Stubb was...

The advantages of clearing field edges efficiently and safely

Maintaining field edges is often overlooked, yet these boundaries significantly impact machinery movement, farming efficiency, and even biodiversity. Overgrown field edges can hinder fieldwork, shade crops, and spread weeds, while also obstructing...

CA to meet Finland, Cosovo presidents & Italy, Pakistan premiers tomorrow

CA to meet Finland, Cosovo presidents & Italy, Pakistan premiers tomorrow Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. File photo NEW YORK, Sept 23, 2025 (BSS) - Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will hold bilateral meetings with Cosovo President...

CA Yunus to meet Finland, Cosovo president and Italy, Pakistan premiers

Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus will hold bilateral meetings with Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday. The chief adviser will hold a bilateral meeting with the President of Kosovo at 4pm in...

Climate friendly innovations

Water engines and sand batteries are novel ways to cut CO2 emissions and reduce China and Russia's grip on vital energy materials. China, the world's top miner and refiner of 17 rare earth metals (RARE), can chock off our supply whenever it feels...

Climate Change May Have Killed More Than 16,000 People in Europe This Summer

Rome saw the highest number of heat-related deaths per capita among European cities this summer, according to new research. Credit: Radek Kucharski/Flickr, CC BY 4.0 Climate change caused 16,469 deaths in European cities this summer, new research...

Finland, Sweden Urge EU to Loosen Land-Use, Forestry Climate Rules

(MENAFN) Finland and Sweden have called on the European Union to relax stringent climate regulations on forestry, warning that inflexible land-use mandates threaten their economies and disrupt timber supplies across the continent. In a statement...

Tanzania envoys in Finland to learn the best ways to develop Tanzania’s forestry sector.

HELSINKI: TANZANIA has resorted to to learn from Finland how to benefit from forest reserves, including broadening revenue sources from the natural reserves. Experts from the Tanzania Forest Fund (TaFF), the Department of Forestry and Beekeeping,...

President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa Meets with President of Finland Alexander Stubb

Ulaanbaatar, September 23, 2025 /MONTSAME/. On the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, President of Mongolia Khurelsukh Ukhnaa held a meeting with President of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb on September...

Finnish Industry Voices Outrage Over Government Cuts, Fears ‘Ideological’ Motives: ‘Everyone Is on Alert’

The Finnish film industry has been lamenting proposed government cuts of 7 million euros ($8.26 million), set to come into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. “If this cut really is 7 million and if it is aimed at our production support, the amount of films...

Finland, Sweden press EU for flexibility on land-use, forestry targets

HELSINKI, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Finland and Sweden have urged the European Union (EU) to ease climate rules on forestry, warning that rigid land-use targets risk hurting their economies and disrupting timber supplies across Europe. The Finnish...

2025 GDS-Index top three sustainable destinations are all Scandinavian

GDS-Index has just released its top 40 sustainable destinations for 2025 – and the top three are all Scandinavian. The winner is Helsinki, the Finnish capital, which achieved 93.5 points on the GDS-Index. The ranking is based on nearly 80 criteria...

Finnish berry company CEO jailed for human trafficking over exploitation of Thai berry pickers

The District Court of Lapland has sentenced the CEO of a Finnish berry company to prison over 62 human trafficking cases involving Thai berry pickers. The workers have long sought justice and advocated for fair treatment and accountability from...

Unemployment rate on rise in Finland in August

The number of employed people aged 15 to 74 was 2,594,000 in Finland in August, 2025, which was 23,000 lower than one year ago, according to Statistics Finland. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed persons was 267,000 in August this year and the...

Major air exercise brings fighter jets, flares and flight noise across Finland

The Finnish Air Force began its largest air exercise of the autumn on Monday, deploying 50 aircraft and 1,200 military personnel across the country in coordination with Swedish and Danish forces. The operation, titled Protective Fence 25, will run...

Fewer forest fire patrol flights and detections in Finland this summer

Forest fire patrol flights in Finland were fewer this summer compared with 2024, according to the Regional State Administrative Agency (AVI). Between April and September, 334 flights were carried out, most between mid-July and early August. This...

Old-fashioned economic thinking driving biodiversity loss says new study

Jasper Kenter, Professorial Research Fellow in Deliberative Ecological Economics at Aberystwyth University’s Business School – Image: Aberystwyth University Old-fashioned economic thinking is driving biodiversity loss, according to a new...

Climate Change May Have Killed 16,469 People in Europe This Summer

Climate change caused 16,469 deaths in European cities this summer, new research estimates. This summer was the fourth hottest in European history, and its effects on the continent’s population have been widely reported. Spain experienced its most...