Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is one step in Finland's way towards carbon neutrality. In agriculture, emissions are released by animals and soil.

MSc Soroush Majlesi's dissertation focused on understanding the transfer of elements, relevant to radioactive waste and their toxicities in animals and plants of boreal ecosystems.

A study published in Ecosystems shows that recent increase of Sphagnum mosses over wet aapa mires in the Mahlaveva aapa mire can be detected from Landsat satellite data.

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland introduces a novel method to reduce particulate emissions: the high-temperature electric soot collector, HiTESC.

Academy Research Fellow Jukka Kekäläinen from the University of Eastern Finland calls for a broader and more inclusive definition of infertility in a recent opinion piece published in the journal Human Reproduction.

The Pellesmäki Orchard in Kuopio is a living gene bank. The first apple trees were grafted in 2004 and now, the orchard is home to more than 350 different apple cultivars, and over 60 pear cultivars.

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku have published in the journal ZooKeys an official description for Scenopinus jerei, a new fly species from Finland.

The FishEDU Demonstration Fish Farm at the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University (KNAU) was launched . The demonstration fish farm consists of a rainbow trout unit and a carp unit for ongrowing of fish, with a production capacity of 1 tonne per year.

For the past 150 years, the European crayfish has been devastated by the crayfish plague. As an attempt to economically compensate for this decline, North American signal crayfish have been deliberately released into European rivers and streams.

Can the carbon cycle be complete in a cultivation method that combines aquaculture of fish and aquaponic cultivation of plants? This is now being studied at UEF for the first time.