In the Southern and South-Western Finnish sea areas, amount of cyanobacteria has increased since last week, and cyanobacteria are mostly mixed in the water column. Amount of cyanobacteria has increase......

Algal bloom in the Finnish bay July 17 2019. © Esa Copernicus Sentinel-2 Data, SYKE Cyanobacteria have increased in the Finnish sea areas and lakes Algal bloom monitoring Jul......

SYKE Policy Brief: Environmental drug load can be reduced As the use of pharmaceuticals increases, increasing amounts of drug residues end up in sewage treatment plants. They can be harm......

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The applicants for right-of-occupancy housing produced through State-subsidised schemes must fulfil certain criteria. The residents of houses produced with other financing schemes are selected by hous...

The regulations, guidelines and recommendations of the built environment department are published as municipal letters. In addition to this, municipal letters contain the Governmental decisions and de...

Right-of-occupancy housing is an alternative to rented housing and owner-occupied housing. To receive right of occupancy, the resident must make a right-of-occupancy agreement and pay part of the pur...

The second day of the informal meeting of EU environment and climate ministers focused on expanding the circular economy into new areas. The ministers discussed the solutions offered by the circular e......

Amount of cyanobacteria has increased in the Southern and South-Western Finnish sea areas. In lakes, amount of cyanobacteria is lower than usually during this time of the summer....

Poor weather conditions have had an effect on algal bloom development. In Finnish fresh waters the situation regarding cyanobacteria is normal for the period. In our marine waters cyanobacterial bloom......

Together with ministers of the environment from 13 other countries, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Krista Mikkonen issued a strong call on behalf of biodiversity at the Trondheim Confe......

Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests. Marine life is however facing severe threats as coastal zone is affected by increas......

Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Krista Mikkonen will travel to Trondheim for a conference dealing with biodiversity to be held on Tuesday 2 July. The meeting, now organised for the nint......

In the Finnish sea areas only single abundant cyanobacteria occurrences have been observed in coastal areas. In lakes, the cyanobacteria situation is also typical, and the likelihood of abundant surfa......

Due to warm weather the occurrence of cyanobacteria has increased in lakes, but the algal situation is still rather typical for the period. Both in the coastal and open sea areas of the Baltic Sea onl......