ON A WARM September afternoon in subarctic Finland, the architect Laura Mattila kneels in the grass beside a sauna that she and Mikko Merz, her 49-year-old partner in life and work, built eight years ago in the factory town turned artists’ colony of Fiskars, an hour’s drive west from Helsinki. …
Workers inspect the Repository in ONKALO, a deep geological disposal underground facility, designed to safely store nuclear waste, on May 2, 2023, on the island of Eurajoki, western Finland. Jonathan Nackstrand | Afp | Getty Images Finland is on the cusp of burying spent nuclear fuel in the world’s first …
The annual UN-sponsored World Happiness Report is out and the list of happiest countries in terms of ranking has been declared. India has maintained its rank; we stand at position 126 on the happiness index. Finland remained the world’s happiest country for a seventh straight year. Among the 10 most …