Threatened by Russia as well as climate change, Finland’s northernmost region has become a front line of western Europe’s existential crisis. By Megan Gibson Lapland is not an easy place. In Finland’s ...

In joining NATO, Finland adds its 24,000 active troops, 100 warplanes and scores of warships to the alliance, while Sweden adds its own 15,000 active troops plus similar numbers of planes and ships.

Here’s a figure from a brand new paper on the genetics of metabolic traits in a large Finnish cohort (which I’ll be posting about in more detail shortly): On the left is a map of the counties ...

An excellent regional geography, with sections on resources, the "human variable," economic activities and Lapland. An Economic Geography of the Scandinavian States and Finland | Foreign Affairs Skip ...

[See also: Why has Finland joined Nato? But Laplanders know that geography brings with it vulnerabilities. Finland’s shared border with Russia – which spans more than 1,300 km to the east – has been ...