Chemical pollution represents one of the main threats to the Baltic Sea marine environment, negatively affecting the health of its biota and vital ecological functions, and endangering its biodiversi...

The goal of Finland and other Baltic Sea countries is to have a clean and thriving sea. However, various assessments have indicated that the state of the Baltic Sea is largely poor. One significant f...

Postdoctoral researcher PhD in Aquatic Sciences, University of Helsinki Contact information Work email: dana.hellemann@syke.fi Phone number: 0295252288 Finnish environmen......

  Researcher Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 469 230 941 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Circular economy solutions ......

  Researcher Contact information E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 637 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Circular economy solutions ......

Installation of passive samplers in the river basin (May–June 2023). The objectives of this ICI cooperation are improvement for carrying out national surface water quality monitoring prog...

The chemical status of Finnish lakes, rivers, and coastal waters has not yet improved, despite the concentrations of several chemicals falling below the limits set for them (EQS - Environmental Qualit......

The load of active pharmaceutical ingredients released into the environment can be reduced by treating waste water at primary sources, such as hospitals, healthcare institutes, households and pharmace......

  Senior Research Scientist PhD Contact information Email: firstname. t .lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 368 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Resear......

A new assessment of levels of harmful substances in Finnish waters has been completed. According to monitoring activities, harmful levels of mercury, fire retardants and surface treatment agents are f......

The Finnish Environment Institute has published an extensive information package about the status of Finland’s marine environment. The new report about the status of Finland’s marine environment is pu......

Several different kinds of tools are used in Finnish Environmnet institute (Syke) to assess and forecast the state of the environment. In a large perspective they can be called mathematical models. M...

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......

Several tools and models to support and improve river basin management planning have been developed and tested in the Finnish Environment Institute. They can be used to aid in assessing the status of...

The addition of carbon, which is required as a nutrient by the microorganisms in soil and groundwater, was found to be the most promising remediation method in the remediation of soil and groundwater ......

Project objectives and background The Alg@line -project was generated in 1993 to improve the coverage of existing pelagic monitoring in the Baltic Sea. The temporal and spatial frequency ...