According to him, Finland actually prevent fires through forest thinning — where dead natural material is removed — and through early warning aerial surveillance systems, where local aviation ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

HELSINKI (AP) -- Finland's president isn't sure where U.S ... a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things" to clear forest floors. Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said in an interview ...

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 ...

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 ...