Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

The Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences provides solutions for challenges in the fields of the sustainable use of natural resources, food production and health care.

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News from the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and in the field of biological and environmental sciences.

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4.2.2019

Society & economy

The shipping container: an invention that revolutionized trade and turned the world into a giant conveyor belt

Maritime transport fuels global trade. But is it already too cheap to be sustainable?

25.1.2019

Sustainability news

The decline of flounders in the Gulf of Finland was caused by the near disappearance of one species – which wasn’t supposed to be there

Dynamics of fish stocks can be more complex than what they seem due to mixed populations of undiscovered species. Sometimes such cryptic species...

22.1.2019

Sustainability news

A national catalogue of Finnish species published for the first time

For the first time, the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility has published a national catalogue of Finnish species. The list comprises more...

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RESEARCH FROM MOLECULES TO LARGE SCALE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Our research extends from the study of molecular-level structures to major ecosystem-level questions. Our internationally prestigious research and researcher education are mirrored in the number of our national centres of excellence as well as the number of our doctoral graduates.