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New online tool to standardise assessment of the status of European seas

A new tool for the assessment of the state of the sea (NEAT) has been developed in a large joint European research project DEVOTES, which aims to develop indicators and assessment methods for marine b...

2016-03-22
The Finnish waste management system and the EU-target: 70% target was not reached

Foto: Pentti Hokkanen, Flaming Star Oy The Finnish waste management system and the EU-target: 70% target was not reached The EU Waste Framework Directive aims to recycle or recover...

2016-01-11
The water area clouded by the dredging for the Port of Bronka does not extend to Finnish territorial waters

Satellite images show that the dredging for the Port of Bronka located near St. Petersburg just inside a flood dam has caused increased turbidity in a wide area at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finl...

2015-10-12
Article on valuing biodiversity in environmental management - the most downloaded in the Ecological Indicators journal

Researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the University of Helsinki have together released an article on valuing biodiversity in environmental management. Titled ‘How to value bi...

2015-09-23
The endangered white-backed woodpecker can thrive in commercial forests

UPM, WWF Finland, Finnish Environment Institute and Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland have carried through a joint project to promote the living conditions of the endangered white-backed woodpec...

2015-06-15
Let emission-free power go around – bring solar power home!

The idea promoter ‘Yllätetään yhteiskunta’ (‘Let’s surprise society’) wants good practices to go around in Finland. The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the HINKU municipalities aiming at carb...

2015-06-09
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) wants to promote the cleantech opportunities of municipalities

The way municipalities promote low-carbon solutions and cleantech business is very important to the market. The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has investigated how the HINKU municipalities aimin...

2015-06-09
Finnish Sustainable Communities FISU - vitality from resource wisdom

No waste, no emissions, no overconsumption. Four Finnish cities, Jyväskylä, Lappeenranta, Turku and Forssa, have committed to working towards becoming carbon neutral and waste-free and curbing overcon...

2015-06-09
Dr Joe Ravetz is a visual thinker

The public lecture held by Dr Joe Ravetz is loaded with hand drawn maps and pictures. Even his self-presentation on the Urban 3.0 website is partly a comic strip. "I am a researcher of sustainable fut...

2015-02-05
Finnish bioenergy research highly visible in international science communication

Scientific articles on bioenergy written by Finnish researchers have gained exceptionally good visibility in the international science community. They are cited, downloaded and used extensively in, fo...

2015-01-20

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