Tag: Polar night
APN podcast: Is Finland losing the disinformation war?
This week’s program examines THL’s decision to leave Twitter, reflects on the hectic start of the 2023 parliamentary election campaign, and tells about life in Lapland during the long polar night.
The polar night ends at Utsjoki, the day lasts an hour
Utsjoki is the northernmost municipality in the European Union.
Sixth mass extinction, silenced voices in Belarus and night festival in dark polar night
In the shadow of the ongoing climate crisis, the sixth mass extinction is taking place on our planet. Up to a million species are threatened with extinction. How serious is the situation and why is this crisis not receiving more attention?These days, the UN summit on biodiversity, COP15, is underway, an attempt to reach an […]
The sun rises from the northernmost part of Finland after two months of polar night
The long polar night ends in the northernmost parts of Finland on Monday, when the sun returns to the sky, albeit for a short time, after a break of almost two months. The sun was last set in Utsjoki, Finland’s northernmost municipality on November 24, when the darkness lasted a total of 54 days. The […]
Sleep or migration? Find salvation in the Danish winter
If you are reading this, your poor soul, then it is because you have ended up in the slings and arrows of the monstrous fortune of the northern hemisphere in winter. Some people seem to cross the coldest season with the kind of dazzling optimism that makes you want to smash a cookie jar over […]
Finnish Lapland slips into the polar night
Polar night, known in Finnish as polar night, started from the northernmost part of Finland on Wednesday and continues day by day further south. The sun shone for the last time until the beginning of 2022 in Nuorgam, the northernmost municipality in Utsjoki, with 200 inhabitants. The next time the sun peeks into the sky […]