© Photo: Riku Lumiaro Incomplete combustion of organic fuels results in emission of light-absorbing carbon (LAC) particles that contain both black carbon (BC), which has the stronges...

Objectives and targets of Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) environmental programme 2022–2025 Mitigation of adverse environmental impacts caused by Syke’s activities We will reduce...

  FPCUP EO-Crowd – Publication and Crowdsourcing Analysis of Phenomena of Interest in EO Products FPCUP EO-Crowd project aims at supporting innovation in businesses and start-ups by ...

Expert   Contact information Email: annika.johansson@syke.fi Tel: +358 29 525 2006 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Sustainability Lato......

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an established method to simultaneously quantify multiple environmental impacts arising from the whole value chain including all processes related to the life cycle of ...

Finnish Environment Institute's research results are published in international and national scientific publication series and also in professional and general-interest publications. In addition, we ...

New report on micropollutants in BSR wastewater treatment plants Authors:  Lauri Äystö, Finnish Environment Institute, lauri.aysto(at)syke.fi Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky, HELCOM secretaria...

What´s new in Baltic Sea Pharma Platform? Authors: Lauri Äystö and Noora Perkola, Finnish Environment Institute, BalticPharma(at)syke.fi During spring 2021, the Baltic Sea Pharma Platfo...

Addressing global sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires changes in innovation policy. Hence, it is necessary to promo...

Chemical weapons were produced and used in a large scale during the World Wars. According to official records, at least 50,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA) contained in bombs, shells and o...

Climate change is one of the most significant environmental problems affecting the human population. It is linked to the global adequacy of natural resources, a decline in biodiversity as well as uns...

Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024 PharmaSea: Which are the environmentally hazardous pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea? Interreg BSR Project APRIORA – prioritising pharmaceutical...

Plankton community ecology and ecosystem research is currently hampered by the bottleneck of acquiring species-level information from the communities due to the slow analysis with traditional microsc...

The project Highly Optimized Energy Systems (HOPE) is established to support the industry actors to develop solutions to increase energy efficiency within energy networks and advance cross-sectoral i...

SusHydro project creates interdisciplinary guidelines for sustainable governance of existing hydropower. It aims to integrate the ecological, economic, and social pillars of sustainability in a novel...

The Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) is a flagship under the PA Hazards of EUSBSR. The BSR Pharma brings together projects and stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) t...

Coastal wetlands are important for sequestering carbon. They cover globally only 0.2 % of the ocean surface but contribute 50% of the total amount of carbon buried in marine sediments. Despite their ...

Dolichospermum (blue green algae). Photo: Reija Jokipii. Background Ultrasound can prevent cyanobacteria from forming surface blooms. The method has rarely been studied in natural wa...

  The Alliance+ extension project aims to open the Alliance network to blue biotechnology actors beyond the reach of the limited partnership of the Alliance main stage project. The A...

  BlueBioSites Seed Money project aims to develop a ‘large scale’ project with the objective to create a Baltic Sea wide effective system for the identification and monitoring of sus...