The BARIMS project inventories key areas for biodiversity in the Barents region, or Northern Norway and Finnish and Swedish Lapland. The project also seeks ways of safeguarding the nature values and ...

Senior coordinator, group manager PhD (evolutionary ecology) Title of docent (ecology and evolutionary biology, University of Helsinki) Contact information Email: first......

Tuesday 20 October 2020 is International Landscape Day. The Ministry of the Environment will organise a photo contest in honour of the day and the Rural Women’s Advisory Organisation will organise gui......

The Finnish Ecosystem Observatory (FEO) aims to create a national co-operation model and information platform to support the extensive monitoring and evaluation of and research on the state of ecosys...

Senior research scientist PhD (Ecology and evolutionary biology)  Contact information firstname.lastname@syke.fi +358503050007 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) ......

What is Liiteri? Liiteri is an information service focusing on the living environment and is governed by Finnish Environment Institute. Geographical information and statistics about the built en...

Global warming changes the composition of phytoplankton in marine ecosystems, also in the Baltic Sea. There has been the recently observed shift in the phytoplankton community composition during the B......

Approximately 25,760 cormorant nests were counted in the Finnish coastal areas in the summer of 2020. In the past five years, the nesting population has varied by only a few per cent. However, there i......

Background Ecological decision making and analysis is about producing (usually spatial) information to support decision making in different levels. As said, it is mostly about exploiting spatial...

The state of biodiversity and ecosystems has deteriorated both in Finland and globally. Planning and implementing effective corrective measures requires more comprehensive and up-to-date information a......

Finnish peatlands are under a bigger pressure from land use than has generally been realised. More than half of the peatland area has been drained, and most of the remaining undrained peatlands are bo......

Senior research scientist, group manager Docent (urban ecology) PhD (environmental sciences) M.sc. (systematic botany) Contact information Email: first name.last name@syke.f......

  CURRENT Recent articles:  Oinonen, I. & Paloniemi, R. 2023. Understanding and measuring young people’s sustainability actions . Journal of Enviro...

Species in our country's largest order of insects are increasingly under threat. In an assessment of threatened species made public in the spring, about 16 % of our species of Hymenoptera were assesse......

Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests. Marine life is however facing severe threats as coastal zone is affected by increas......

The threat status of habitat types in Finland was evaluated for the second time. Almost half (48%) of the nearly 400 habitat types across the country were assessed to be threatened. In southern Finlan......

Many of the plants on northern mountains depend on the snow melting late in spring and summer. Snow provides shelter from winter extreme events for plants but at the same time it limits the length of ......

Consumption in Finland has exceeded the level that is globally just and sustainable. With the exception of the use of fresh water, consumption by Finns exceeds all of the biophysical boundaries. Acco......

Sustainable well-being means both an equitable global distribution of well-being at present as well as the securing of well-being for future generations. Studies often equate well-being with happines......

The goal of sustainable development is to secure well-being also for future generations. How have the countries of the world succeeded in this? A research group at the University of Leeds showed , t......