Finlândia

Interesting facts

The happiest country in the world for eight consecutive years is on alert: Finland faces the highest unemployment in 15 years, sees its minister advocating mandatory work for foreigners receiving benefits, and witnesses confidence in the job market plummet amid the economic crisis.

Valdemar Medeiros 05/06/2026 at 12:17

Construction

Finland hides entire cities underground with gyms, playgrounds, and sports fields 25 meters deep, and now the whole world is lining up to learn how to build bomb shelters like the Finns.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 23/05/2026 at 23:20

Interesting facts

A couple prefers to buy an island rather than a new house, because they find it cheaper.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 11/05/2026 at 17:49

Construction

WEG created a battery storage system that is transforming an old mine in Finland into a renewable energy hub. The project is one of the first hybrids in the Nordic country to combine solar generation with storage and helps stabilize the national electricity grid.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 06/05/2026 at 15:12

Armed Forces

With a range of up to 40 km, automated firing in less than 30 seconds, and the ability to operate in any weather, Finland has signed a $642 million deal for 112 K9 howitzers, establishing one of the largest heavy artillery forces in Europe amid the new military race on the continent.

Valdemar Medeiros 11/04/2026 at 20:26

Science and Technology

Finland completes the world’s first nuclear waste deposit in a stable rock formation 1.9 billion years old for millennia of protection.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 10/04/2026 at 00:50

Interesting facts

An impact crater has turned into agricultural land in Finland, and its almost perfect outline creates a circular design so strange that it resembles a landscape from another planet viewed from space.

Débora Araújo 04/04/2026 at 15:54

Interesting facts

She moves to Finland to make money and find new opportunities, but says she has discovered a side of the country that almost no one shows.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 28/03/2026 at 01:31

Interesting facts

Creators Paint Reindeer Antlers with Reflective Paint That Glows in Headlights to Prevent Collisions; Tests in Finland Measure Resistance to Snow, Mud, and Extreme Cold, and Images Go Viral on Social Media

Alisson Ficher 18/02/2026 at 08:48

Funcionamento da bateria de areia com energia solar e eólica

Renewable Energy

While The World Competes for Lithium, Engineers Use Sand to Store Energy and Heat Cities

Jefferson Augusto 06/02/2026 at 19:25

Sustentada por pilares de concreto ciclópico escavados na rocha, esta cidade funciona abaixo do solo com quilômetros de cavernas estruturais, parques na superfície e uma das infraestruturas subterrâneas mais avançadas do mundo

Construction

Supported By Cyclopean Concrete Pillars Excavated in Rock, This City Operates Below Ground With Miles of Structural Caves, Surface Parks, and One of the World’s Most Advanced Underground Infrastructures

Débora Araújo 06/01/2026 at 16:14

Na Finlândia, multas de trânsito não têm valor fixo: elas são calculadas com base na renda do motorista, e milionários já pagaram mais de US$ 140 mil por uma única infração de velocidade

Economy

In Finland, Traffic Fines Are Not Fixed: They Are Calculated Based on the Driver’s Income, and Millionaires Have Already Paid Over $140,000 for a Single Speeding Violation

Valdemar Medeiros 13/12/2025 at 17:56

The happiest country in the world for eight consecutive years is on alert: Finland faces the highest unemployment in 15 years, sees its minister advocating mandatory work for foreigners receiving benefits, and witnesses confidence in the job market plummet amid the economic crisis.

Finland hides entire cities underground with gyms, playgrounds, and sports fields 25 meters deep, and now the whole world is lining up to learn how to build bomb shelters like the Finns.

A couple prefers to buy an island rather than a new house, because they find it cheaper.

WEG created a battery storage system that is transforming an old mine in Finland into a renewable energy hub. The project is one of the first hybrids in the Nordic country to combine solar generation with storage and helps stabilize the national electricity grid.

With a range of up to 40 km, automated firing in less than 30 seconds, and the ability to operate in any weather, Finland has signed a $642 million deal for 112 K9 howitzers, establishing one of the largest heavy artillery forces in Europe amid the new military race on the continent.

Finland completes the world’s first nuclear waste deposit in a stable rock formation 1.9 billion years old for millennia of protection.

An impact crater has turned into agricultural land in Finland, and its almost perfect outline creates a circular design so strange that it resembles a landscape from another planet viewed from space.

She moves to Finland to make money and find new opportunities, but says she has discovered a side of the country that almost no one shows.

Creators Paint Reindeer Antlers with Reflective Paint That Glows in Headlights to Prevent Collisions; Tests in Finland Measure Resistance to Snow, Mud, and Extreme Cold, and Images Go Viral on Social Media

While The World Competes for Lithium, Engineers Use Sand to Store Energy and Heat Cities

Supported By Cyclopean Concrete Pillars Excavated in Rock, This City Operates Below Ground With Miles of Structural Caves, Surface Parks, and One of the World’s Most Advanced Underground Infrastructures

In Finland, Traffic Fines Are Not Fixed: They Are Calculated Based on the Driver’s Income, and Millionaires Have Already Paid Over $140,000 for a Single Speeding Violation

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

With 70 tons of rock removed by hand and an 800-year-old abandoned cave, a former businessman transforms a dark shelter into a modern home carved in the heart of the forest.

Engine without traditional cylinder head could change the future of hybrids: Aramco creates DHE technology that simplifies mechanics, promises to reduce consumption by up to 25%, and challenges decades of evolution in combustion engines.