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• Music video brings digital nature data to life 2024-05-10
  Today, on 10 May, the Nature Talks To Us piece by Tapani and Joona Toivanen, which combines music, video art, and modern digital methods of collected nature information, has been published. The nature data used in the work was collected in the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory project. In the era of the eco-crisis, art and art-based research methods are also used at the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke). Art allows us to access those areas of humanity on which the sustainability transition is based: culture, values, and emotions.
• Policy Brief: Reducing use of natural resources can be coupled with strengthening the economy 2024-05-07
  The Finnish economy can grow even if the raw material consumption is reduced. At the same time, climate change and biodiversity loss will be mitigated, and pollution reduced. Finland should transition to a circular economy, as it reduces the use of natural resources and promotes crisis resilience. The new Policy Brief published by the Finnish Environment Institute explains how decoupling raw material consumption and economic growth is possible and what the transition to a carbon-neutral circular economy society requires.
• Policy Brief: Stopping biodiversity loss makes sense 2024-05-07
  Biodiversity loss caused by human action results in nature becoming degraded and uniform. The more living beings disappear – ultimately causing extinction of species – the greater changes the functioning of ecosystems will undergo. The new Policy Brief by the Finnish Environment Institute describes how, at its most serious, biodiversity loss threatens food production and other ecosystem services that are important for humans. The publication also presents methods for combating biodiversity loss.
• Finnish Ecosystem Observatory makes nature data accessible to all 2024-04-22
  The significance of nature data in society has grown significantly in recent years, as decision-making often requires more accurate, up-to-date, and diverse information about nature. The Finnish Ecosystem Observatory project has responded to society's information needs by, for example, building the Finnish Nature Information Hub website. In addition, a group bringing together different organisations has been established to coordinate nature information.
• Baltic Sea winter monitoring cruise: phosphate content reaches record levels 2024-04-10
  The annual winter monitoring cruise of the marine research vessel Aranda revealed that the oxygen problems of the main basin of the Baltic Sea continue and that phosphate levels in the surface layer have increased. The oxygen situation in the Gulf of Finland was relatively good, but the phosphate level in the surface layer was higher than at any time in the past 30 years. Nutrient levels were also higher than usual in the Archipelago Sea.