WASHINGTON – During his trip to view the damage from California's wildfires, President Donald Trump said Finland's President Sauli Niinisto told him that his country doesn't have the same ...

Instead, the country reportedly relies on an early warning system, aerial surveillance, and a network of forest roads to keep the instances wildfires relatively low. Furthermore, Finland’s Presi ...

The forest service in Finland does carry out controlled burns of the forest floor mostly to clear away underbrush and also promote new saplings. Researchers aren’t sure whether the country’s ...

Instead they got this bizarre statement: “I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spend a lot of time on raking and ...

Rescue services say the lights came from Russian aerial military exercises close to the eastern border. Residents of eastern Finland made a number of calls to rescue services Wednesday evening ...

which makes them more visible in aerial images," says Samuli Junttila, Associate Professor in Forest Health and Earth Observation at the University of Eastern Finland, a co-author of the study.

Finland does not plan to fence off its entire 1,300 ... About 70 percent of the eastern border is coniferous or mixed forest. Lakes, the sea and other watercourses make up 10 percent of the border.

a town north-east of Helsinki, Finland, patients at the local healthcare centre are taken on guided treks in the Sipoonkorpi National Park. An expansive 18.5 km-squared forest nestled alongside ...