This transdisciplinary project will create a new boundary concept, ‘sense of water’ (veden taju), to understand, recognize and foster collective care for water. The research will produce new kno...

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) has been developing several tools that can calculate and follow the environmental impacts of different subjects. Climate Diet - for citizens Clim...

Biodiversity and the ecosystem services provided by nature are the foundation of human wellbeing. Natural processes guarantee that we have food, raw materials, clean water and air, and other prerequi...

Earth's water resources (video, 3 min) Air travel and its climate impact (video, 3 min) Air travel and climate - a Guide for Teachers (pdf)     ...

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...

    The participants of BSSC 2023 © Niina Talvensaari     ...

Figure 1. Satellite image of Lake Näsijärvi in full ice cover in February 2023. Objectives  Exploiting the full potential of Copernicus (European Earth observation programme) da...

During the summer 2024, national cyanobacterial reviews are published weekly on Thursdays from 20 June to 17 August. Cyanobacterial review provides a comprehensive overview of the state of ...

Latest summary review Summary of the national blue-green algae monitoring June-August 2024: This year, blue-green algae blooms were observed especially in open sea and coastal areas, wh...

Short address:  syke.fi/projects/DRYvER Background Rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and other aquatic environments are among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. They are also thos...

® Anja Holmsten The Finnish Environmental Institute (Syke) together with its national mirror committees draw up methods standards for the environmental field By appointment of the Fi...

Chemical weapons were produced and used in a large scale during the World Wars. According to official records, at least 50,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA) contained in bombs, shells and o...

© Riku Lumiaro Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) strives to be a good workplace for everyone. Syke aims to be an organisation where no one is discriminated against on the basis of...

  PAPILLONS is an EU Horizon2020 funded project on micro and nano-plastics (MNP) resulting from the use of agricultural plastics in soil. PAPILLONS maps the occurrence of microp...

Our society is facing environmental problems of increasing complexity, such as climate change, urbanisation and global challenges related to sustainable development. In order to resolve these burning...

  The “demand side” of the market, actions by citizens as consumers and producers of to low carbon energy now plays an increasing role in the decarbonization of energy and built environment...

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...