Latest results of circular economy research projects and the advancements in strategic research....

River Rakkolanjoki. © Eija Rantajärvi. At the beginning of 2021, researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and experts from the City of Lappeenranta conducted a citizen......

Increasing consumer interest in vegetables and sustainable food will lead to a need to expand greenhouse cultivation. Peat is a common growing media in greenhouse cultivation; however, it is consider...

In her doctoral dissertation, Pinja Näkki, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, has studied risks that organisms such as bivalves living on the seafloor face from microplastics. As much ......

Dissertation: Micro- and mesoplastics in the northern Baltic Sea: their fate in the seafloor and effects on benthic fauna © Kuva: Seppo Knuuttila Press release September 7 th......

International Landscape Day will be celebrated in October. As in previous years, the festivities in Finland will include an open photo competition, guided landscape walks and a photography campaign th......

EIFFEL will offer the EO-based community the ground-breaking capacity of exploiting existing Group on Earth Observations (GEOSS) and external datasets, with minimal new data collection activities. Ad...

Training videos give detailed information about water sampling and measurement in a stream or river. Videos represent three methods: water sampling from a stream with a Limnos sampler me...

Study areas of the BARIMS project The BARIMS project aims to enhance regional co-operation in the light of sustainable development and safeguarding biodiversity in the Barents Euro-Arctic...

During the summer, the cyanobacterial situation has varied in both Finnish lakes and sea areas. The amount of cyanobacteria was exceptionally at its peak in the sea areas already in mid-July. Even in ......

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......

© Theresa Tribaldos Stakeholders and citizens engagement have become an important element in both environmental research and governance. The importance of societal engagement to prod...

The amounts of blue-green algae in lakes and coastal areas are still smaller than average. Only in some areas of the Archipelago Sea have abundant cyanobacteria been observed in coastal areas. As is t......

Approximately 24,300 cormorant nests were counted in Finland in the summer of 2021. The first successful inland nesting was confirmed in Päijät-Häme. The nesting population in Finland has varied by on......

Boreal forests of the Barents Region stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, who are all Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, Aichi Biodiversity Targ...

According to a preliminary data calculation by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), municipalities’ total climate emissions decreased by 7.4% in 2020 compared to the previous year. ...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of metals and mercury in waste waters and soil. The measurands for the synthetic sample, industrial and municipal waste...

The report on the Physical Science Basis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published on Monday states that human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate ex......

The cyanobacterial situation har remained calm in lakes and coastal areas. The amounts of cyanobacteria in inland waters are small compared with the average. In the open sea areas of the Gulf of Finla......

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