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The cyanobacterial situation in lakes has deteriorated in some places since last week, although the national situation in lakes remains calm. In sea areas, the number of surface blooms has decreased, and the cyanobacteria have mixed with water in many places. The warm and calm weather may further increase the number of cyanobacterial blooms in late summer. In some places, dead cyanobacterial cells have washed up on the beaches, dyeing the beaches turquoise because of the colour pigment in the al

The Finnish Environment Institute has received 4.5 million euros from the EU's research and innovation program Horizon Europe. SYKE is coordinating two biodiversity projects, BIONEXT and BIOAGORA, which will be launched this year. Research funding was also allocated from the Horizon Europe programme to six projects in which SYKE is a partner and to two European partnerships.