Firms that aligned with the president are preparing for a political pendulum swing — and a potential barrage of investigations.

Google's cut-first pay-later approach to Finland's boreal forests is leaving wild fauna without a place to call home.

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone. After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the Oulujoki River. Continue reading...