Successful cooperation between scientists and policymakers has significantly decreased air pollutant emissions in Europe, according to an article recently published in the Ambio journal. Sulphur dioxi......

  The SEVIRA-project realizes surveys and interviews for Finnish and Russian citizens of the state of local waters and how to improve water quality. In Finland two large surveys......

SEVIRA hydrologists held first virtual workshop on Nov 17th. There were presentations and discussing e.g. data quality control practices and effects of covid-19 situation on hydrological monitoring in......

The SEVIRA-project’s coastal water quality monitoring task for this season were realized as planned. There were two sampling cruises in both countries at the same time in June and August. Sampling wer......

SEVIRA-project arranged a field measurement campaign with the discharge measurement specialists both from the Southeast Finland ELY-centre and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE in October 27th, 2020.......

In the new SEVIRA-blog Maria Kämäri and Petri Ekholm write how SEVIRA-project has implemented extensive river water quality monitoring in three rivers discharging into the eastern Gulf of Finland. ...

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......

"Nowadays satellite observations are used in diverse ways in environmental monitoring” explains senior researcher Jenni Attila from the Geoinformatics Research Unit of the Finnish Environment Insti......

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were exceptional circumstances during the spring 2020. There were challenges to carry out SEVIRA-project according to the plans, but nevertheless the project has co......

The Water monitoring kits’s materials were translated into Russian to enable better cooperation. Such kits help to measure water transparency, temperature, algal situation, turbidity, pH and oxygen. ......

NeAs project brochures © Anu Eskelinen (GTK) Shortcut:  www.syke.fi/projects/neas NeAs project brochure (pdf, 3780 kB) As removal report Video on groundwater ...

You can influence EU policy by telling us what you think needs to be done to improve the status of the Baltic sea, coastal waters and of rivers and lakes. ...

First results of catchment modelling within the framework of SEVIRA project were showed by Dr Alexandra Ershova and Ksenia Korobchenkova (Russian State Hydrometeorological University) during the Fift......

Cross-border cooperation in on-line monitoring...

The EEA report ‘Resource efficiency and the circular economy in Europe 2019 – even more from less’ was published on 1st of April 2020. Finland has plenty of excellent examples of policies, strategies ......

A Finno-Colombian cooperation project aimed at improving the monitoring of water quality in Colombia was launched at the beginning of the year. The quality assurance of laboratory work is a key elemen......

Open science and collaboration have played an important role when combatting the Covid-19. A vaccine would be a major advancement in research, but from the perspective of sustainable development, othe......

One of the key issues in SEVIRA-project is to obtain reliable data from rivers. This means not only necessity to carry out accurate measurements but to analyze the samples in laboratories and to com......

SEVIRA project arranged third hydrological joint monitoring event in 19th - 21st of February. Finnish and Russian experts gathered in Virolahti region to perform winter time hydrological measurements.......

Two new regional nature reserves have been established in the Russian regions neighbouring Finland. A natural monument was established on the Zaonezhye Peninsula in Karelia, while a larger conservatio......