The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE monitors the state of the environment with the help of satellite technology and is a European forerunner in the efficient use of satellites. The TARKKA service, ......

Cyanobacteria have been observed in both sea areas and lakes. In the sea areas, cyanobacteria are mostly mixed in the water due to strong winds. In the coastal areas, cyanobacteria have been observed......

In both sea areas and lakes cyanobacteria has been observed more than during the last week. Although, when comparing this week to the previous summers’ same period of times, the cyanobacteria occurren......

© Ilkka Lastumäki The cyanobacteria situation has stayed moderate both in Finnish lakes and sea areas. Windy and cloudy weather have carried on to restrain the occurrences. The ......

Less cyanobacteria have been observed at national algae monitoring sites as compared to last week. Windy and cloudy weather has restrained the occurrence of cyanobacteria both in the Finnish sea areas......

This week, in both Finnish sea areas and in inland waters, greater amounts of cyanobacteria have been observed as compared to last week. The warm weather period in June has promoted the growth of cyan......

Despite long-term work on water protection, the condition of the marine environment of the Archipelago Sea has not improved as hoped. The amount of nutrients in the Archipelago Sea, phosphorus in part......

During the Midsummer week, cyanobacteria have started to occur in increasing numbers both in lakes and in the southern and southwestern parts of Finnish sea areas. The exceptionally warm weather in Ju......

The cyanobacterial situation has not notably changed from that of last week; the number of observed cyanobacterial occurrences have merely slightly increased in southern Finland in both Baltic Sea wat......

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The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has started this week its cyanobacterial bloom reporting for the summer 2020. In the Finnish sea areas some cyanobacteria have been observed locally. In lakes, o......

In average summer weather conditions, the risk of algae is moderate in the northern part of the main basin of the Baltic Sea, a major part of the Archipelago Sea and in the southern part of the Bothni......

Do you need to forecast the influences of your operations on water flow or quality in rivers, lakes or coastal areas? Environment Institute SYKE offers modelling for calculating water quality an......

The load of nutrients and dangerous substances is decreasing in all European maritime areas, but the impacts caused by the load have not yet been averted. Similarly, most fish stocks are beginning to ......

The Finnish Environment Institute has studied how biodegradable and bio-based materials actually decompose in the Baltic Sea marine environment. A set of tests in the sea revealed that some materials ......

Novel marine monitoring methods can improve environmental monitoring by supplementing or replacing currently applied methods. BONUS FUMARI has published a database that helps to find information on n...

Oceans and Human Health Workshop is organised jointly by the project BONUS ROSEMARIE and the HORIZON 2020 project SOPHIE....

In the Gulf of Finland, the areas suffering from oxygen depletion have expanded from last summer. The anoxic areas in the Baltic Proper are approximately similar in size than in the autumn of 2018, wh......

During the past summer, large amounts of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) were seen particularly in the northern part of the Baltic Sea’s main basin, at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland and south o......

Since last week, the amount of cyanobacterial blooms has decreased both in the Finnish sea areas and lakes....