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......

Future water scarcity in transboundary river will intensify in basins which are already under stress and is mostly a local problem, reports a new doctoral dissertation. Hafsa Munia, researcher of the ......

Boreal lakes emit greenhouse gases, but the magnitude of the emissions is still inadequately quantified. While the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane have been addressed earlier, those of nitrous......

During the 53rd meeting of the European Network of Freshwater Research Organizations on 18–19 November 2019 in Finland, Antonio Lo Porto from the Italian Water Research Institute passed the chairmansh......

International Landscape Day will be celebrated on Sunday 20 October 2019. This year, the aim is to use Landscape Day to draw particular attention to the value of water in the landscape....

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

Living in the land of a thousand lakes, water plays an important role in the everyday lives of Finns. How is water represented in our everyday landscapes? Is it quietly flowing along in tiny streams a......

Status of lakes and rivers about the same as before, coastal waters have deteriorated A new assessment of the ecological status1) of surface waters in Finland shows that 87% of the su......

Video from a drone, computer vision and superfast 5G connections were harnessed for monitoring the Baltic Sea in a trial conducted in Kirkkonummi....

Goal of the project is to produce science-based information for strengthening the knowledge base for agricultural water protection and nutrient load regulation. We will examine the nutrient load from...

Director General, Professor Lea Kauppi from Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has been nominated as a member of the Mission Board for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters for the Horizon......

    Researcher Marine and Freshwater Solutions, Modelling Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.: +358 295 251 572 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke......

Videos of the training The training of SYKE’s data fusion system was held on 17’th and 18’th of December 2018 in SYKE’s premises. Training was carried out by the staff of Arbonaut Ltd. Martin Gu......

Kuva: Kai Widell / SYKE High quality tap water Finland has pure and healthy tap water, which is available almost anywhere free of charge. In Finnish we call it "kraanavesi" or "...

The environmental awareness of the local public in the study area is increasing the Seleznevka (fin. Rakkolanjoki) and Virojoki Rivers due to the Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA f......

Of the three rivers examined by the SEVIRA project, the Sestra makes an especially interesting case, because there is no previous information of its water quality. The results from November 2018 – Apr......

Powerful novel DNA-based methods are being developed to assess biodiversity and the ecological status of water bodies, yet little consensus about method standardisation exists. In order to tackle this......

From the April 2019 Institute of Limnology RAS has started to do a field study as a part of the project Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA....

A joint cross-border hydrological monitoring meeting was organized in Lappeenranta on 6-8th May....