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 ...

  FINMARI Consortium Manager FT, Dos. Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 50 307 5964 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Resear......

Background Droughts and floods are increasing demographic, economic and climate change is increasing social vulnerability, tacit knowledge with aging people is disappearing and the sustainabili...

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 risks posed by climate change and the adaptation measures required to address those risks are usually evaluated using methods based on climate scenarios. A different approach is used in the doctor......

Little things together make a huge difference and clean environment. Further, responsible operators undoubtedly attract conscious visitors better than their less responsible competitors. Considering t......

  Shipping contributes to the uncontrolled introduction of invasive species to the Baltic Sea, which has severe environmental and economic consequences. A successor of the initi...

Backgroud Currently, Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring is conducted using a standardized microscopy method. The resulting data are used for ecological status assessment and for eutrophicat...

The annual spring monitoring cruise of R/V Aranda took place in late April. This time the researchers ventured into new fields, as they also took genetic samples for phytoplankton. During the cruise t......

e-shape is a unique initiative that brings together decades of public investment in Earth Observation and in cloud capabilities into services for the decision-makers, the citizens, the industry and t...

Comprehensive approach towards the overall sustainability of natural resource use The fragmentation of information on climate change mitigation and adaptation and the lack of syntheses make it d...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely accepted methodological approach for assessing the environmental impacts of products and services over their life cycle and it is incr...

A researcher of the Finnish Environment Institute, Jussi Tiira, has studied the impact of snow growth processes on snowfall, and further their manifestation in radar observations. The results are expe......

© Unsplash To address the wicked sustainability problems of our time, actionable knowledge, co-created with multiple stakeholders and actors in societies, is needed. To meet these kn...

Project description Taxa Identification with Machine Learning Enhanced by DNA Metabarcoding (TIMED) proposes combining DNA metabarcoding and optical machine learning in a novel interleaved way t...

Objectives Mixed use development refers to a practice where more than one type of activity, such as housing, jobs or services are assigned to the same building, groups of buildings, or area. ...

FINMARI and INAR RI, two key research infrastructures for the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, have been granted a status on the Finland’s national roadmap for research infrastructures....

A new article published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change assesses the successes and challenges of working with a set of global socioeconomic and climate scenarios called the SSP-RCP fra......

Sustainability transition requires addressing wicked complex bundles of problems and new unforeseen risks. Sustainability transition redistributes benefits and impacts - and forces us to give up our o......

Researcher FM (Geoinformatics) On leave from Syke Contant information firstname.lastname@syke.fi +358 40 6744 703 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Built e......