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Consortium on microbiological research started
The National Research Data Infrastructure for Microbiological Research (NFDI4Microbiota) aims to achieve better access to data, new tools for analysing data, standards for data and metadata, and a comprehensive training programme for scientists. It...
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Earth observation applications for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Climate change adaptation and mitigation are to be studied with the help of data and Artificial Intelligence in a new international research project.
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New handbook to guide water allocation across borders
A new handbook will promote sustainable and equitable allocation of transboundary water resources. The publication is the first of its kind and is the latest example of Finland’s significant role in international water cooperation.
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Signs of recovery in the Gulf of Finland, situation in the Bothnian Sea cause for concern
Monitoring cruises undertaken in August by the Finnish Environment Institute show that the Gulf of Finland has recovered from the deterioration caused indirectly by salt pulses in the Baltic Sea in the mid-2010s.
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Degradation of biobased plastics in the soil
The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ecologists at the Helmholtz Centre for...
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Webinar: SCALING & OPTIMAL NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR RESILIENT CITIES
Concepts for a tool that quantify the demand and potential for NBS to enhance ecosystem service (ES) provision and linking ESs to readily quantifiable and legislatively relevant environmental quality indicators, will be presented alongside with...
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How seasonal climate forecasts can boost European wheat production – and protect the environment
Farmers and policymakers can reap benefits from taking seasonal weather forecasts into account when making decisions about wheat. This emerges from a study by JRC scientists recently published in Nature. The study looked at the accuracy in...
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Dissertation: Micro- and mesoplastics in the northern Baltic Sea: their fate in the seafloor and effects on benthic fauna
In her doctoral dissertation, Pinja Näkki, a researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, has experimentally studied risks that organisms such as bivalves living on the seafloor face from microplastics.
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Forest edges in the tropics increase carbon emissions
The deforestation of the tropical rainforests is progressing unstoppably. According to scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), these forests are becoming fragmented at a higher rate than expected. By analysing...
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Dissertation: Sensitivity of Cereal Yields to Climate Change: Estimating Risks and Exploring Adaptation
The risks posed by climate change and the adaptation measures required to address those risks are usually evaluated using methods based on climate scenarios. A different approach is used in the doctoral dissertation by Finnish Environment Institute...
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