APRIORA – Improved Risk Assessment for Strategic Water Management to Reduce Micro-Pollutant Emissions in the Baltic Sea Region
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Published: 2024-03-11
The project APRIORA aims to help prioritize urban wastewater treatment plants for enhanced micropollutant removal. The goal of the project is to produce a toolbox combining monitoring, modelli...
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I/2024
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Published: 2024-01-30
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Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) aims to disseminate current knowledge and information on pharmaceuticals in the environment, focusing on eff...
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I/2023
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Published: 2023-04-20
EU legislation to reduce the risk of pharmaceuticals in the environment
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Lauri Äystö, Finnish Environment Institute, lauri.aysto(at)syke.fi;
Noora Perkola, Finnish Environment...
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I/2023
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Päivi Fjäder
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Published: 2023-03-17
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Environmental quality standards in the management of groundwater pollution
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Published: 2023-02-10
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In Finland, groundwater comprises 65 % of the household water distributed by waterworks. Groundwater is typically covered only with thin soil layers; this enables the migration of har...
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Katri Siimes
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Published: 2023-02-08
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Jani Häkkinen
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Published: 2023-01-30
Senior research scientist
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Tel. +358 295 251 793, +358 50 598 8680
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Mining in shallow marine areas endangers sustainability goals
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Published: 2022-09-20
According to a study, mining in shallow marine areas conflicts with international conservation and sustainability goals, bringing with it great environmental risks....
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Investigation of a possible high-risk shipwreck in Utö waters
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Published: 2022-08-29
The marine research vessel Aranda is on the southeast side of Utö this week. A preliminary investigation of the tugboat Simson, which sank in 1978, is underway for a possible oil removal operation....
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Bioassays as tools for assessing safety of sewage sludge fertilizer usage - harmful substances and microplastics under observation (BIOLTA)
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Published: 2018-07-18
Approximately one million tons of solid matter, known as sewage sludge, is separated from wastewater annually in Finnish wastewater treatment plants. 90 % of the nutrient rich sludge is used in agric...
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II/2021
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Published: 2022-10-21
New report on micropollutants in BSR wastewater treatment plants
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Lauri Äystö, Finnish Environment Institute, lauri.aysto(at)syke.fi
Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky, HELCOM secretaria...
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I/2021
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Published: 2022-10-21
What´s new in Baltic Sea Pharma Platform?
Authors: Lauri Äystö and Noora Perkola, Finnish Environment Institute, BalticPharma(at)syke.fi
During spring 2021, the Baltic Sea Pharma Platfo...
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Published: 2022-10-21
Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024
PharmaSea: Which are the environmentally hazardous pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea?
Interreg BSR Project APRIORA – prioritising pharmaceutical...
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Dissertation: Micro- and mesoplastics in the northern Baltic Sea: their fate in the seafloor and effects on benthic fauna
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Published: 2021-09-07
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 ......
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Actions to reduce pharmaceutical emissions in the Baltic Sea region
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Published: 2021-06-21
Since 2017 CWPharma project has worked to gather and produce data on the consumption of pharmaceuticals and their concentrations in the environment, to identify the most problematic compounds and to f......
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Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma)
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Published: 2021-09-01
The Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) is a flagship under the PA Hazards of EUSBSR. The BSR Pharma brings together projects and stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) t...
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Noora Perkola
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Published: 2020-11-02
Leading Researcher, group manager
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Salla Selonen
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Published: 2020-09-21
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PhD (Environmental ecology, University of Helsinki)
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Salla Selonen
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The Baltic Sea region’s waste management for unused medicines must be improved
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Published: 2020-09-03
CWPharma, a project funded by the EU’s Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme, has evaluated national-level practices for take-back and disposal of unused medicines and other pharmaceutical waste, for b......
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Low levels of environmental toxins in Lapland, climate change and new chemicals the main risks
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Published: 2016-08-24
The Finnish Lapland is renowned for its purity, even if environmental toxins are present at low concentrations in the air, water and living organisms. The main concern in the Arctic region is the long......
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