Project The CIPGeS project connects analyses of the rapidly changing geopolitical and security context to future development of challenge-led innovation and growth policy. With challenge-led pol...

Goal Indigenous Knowledge and Arctic Forests (IKForest) project aims to identify, map, and promote forest conservation and restoration practices that are informed by Indigenous Knowledge and in ...

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 ......

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......

  Project Manager Contact information aino.lipsanen@syke.fi +358 295 251 279 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Nature Solutions Latokartanonkaari 11 00790......

Arctic PASSION is an innovative pan-Arctic Observation and Monitoring action that rises to the challenges of climate change facing the people living and working in the Arctic, and to European society...

SYKE has long contributed to the development of the Barents area through various projects such as the EU-funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic (EUA-BCA) contributing to the development of c...

The POMERO project investigates the occurrence and effects of marine litter in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic region, and strengthens international cooperation, networking and the participation of Fin...

The European Union will provide 15 million euros from the Horizon 2020 Programme to fund the Arctic PASSION project for the period 2021 to 2025. A consortium of 35 partners will promote the integratio......

    Basic project information APP4SEA is a transnational competence project, which aims to strengthen the preparedness of environmental authorities and the awar...

The warming of the Arctic Ocean could generally increase the primary production provided by algae living in sea ice, but the impact varies greatly between latitudes, claims a study published in the re......

Burning of floating and stranded oil was successfully tested last summer in Greenland by Aarhus University, Greenland Oil Spill Response A/S, Lamor Corporation Ab and DESMI A/S. The experiments includ......

Over the coming weeks, climate change mitigation and the implementation of the Paris Agreement will be discussed in Bonn. In support of climate change mitigation, the Finnish Environment Institute (SY......

© Ilkka Lastumäki Our research and expertise support the protection and use of the sensitive environments in the Arctic regions. Syke is extensively involved in the Arctic Council's ...