Letizia Tedesco, a polar biological oceanographer at the Finnish Environment Institute reports and expresses her views on a scientific paper that signals potential disruptions to the Arctic ecosystem ......

  PAPILLONS is an EU Horizon2020 funded project on micro and nano-plastics (MNP) resulting from the use of agricultural plastics in soil. PAPILLONS maps the occurrence of microp...

An international seminar entitled Policy implications of Arctic cross-border climate change impacts was held on May this year. The main emphasis was to explore how climate change impacts in the Arctic......

Senior research scientist D.Sc. Contact information Email: firstname.surename@syke.fi phone: +358 295 251 098 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Nature solutions ......

The GSGF in Finland — Integration of geospatial and statistical information in Finland (GSFI) project takes the next step after the GEOSTAT 4 project by adapting the GSGF Europe to the Finnish contex...

Background Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a powerful greenhouse gas that is naturally produced and partly consumed by the microbial processes nitrification, denitrification, nitrifier denitrification,...

A new method for climate risk assessment has been developed that improves decision-making for climate change adaptation under uncertainty. The international work, led by researchers from the Finnish E......

Researcher Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Finnish Environment Institute Syke Quality of information /Novel monitoring Visiting address: Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki ......

Group manager PhD (General microbiology), University of Helsinki Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.: +358400148596 Finnish Environment Institute (......

Group manager Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 965 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Nature solutions Protected areas Latokartan......

EU Member States recognise the importance of adapting to impacts of heatwaves, droughts, floods, heavy precipitation and changing temperatures and of mainstreaming climate change adaptation to a wide ......

The Finnish Environment Institute has tested the possibilities of using a genetic method to support the Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring. The eDNA method revealed previously undetected species ......

Aims Green-Digi-Basin project is targeted to find the most effective green solutions for the boreal-subarctic river basins and improve existing calculations for river connectivity, i.e. nut...

  The MAAMERI project is included in the research section of the water protection programme (2019–2023). The project aims to improve the understanding of the impact of changes in nut...

The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationa......

Scientific publications Ahti Lepistö, Antti Räike, Tapani Sallantaus, Leena Finér (2021), Increases in organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in boreal forested catchments — Change...

Research Engineer, M.Sc. Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 693 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Research infrastructure Marine ......

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...