Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

MSc Muhammad Mohsin's research offers an environmentally and cost-friendly method to reduce concentrations of potentially toxic elements and rare earth elements in stormwater using perennial plants.

The eNaBIS project creates a foundation for broad educational collaboration across different levels of education.

In 2020, the University of Eastern Finland celebrated its 10th anniversary and marked the occasion by setting up a private conservation area in the Ylpässuo mire in Kiuruvesi, eastern Finland. Today, this conservation area is one of the seven Open Labs included in the European REWET project.

UEF and partners received over 3.2 million euros in development funding from various instruments.

A recent visit to Ghana by a UEF delegation witnessed the signing of two memoranda of understanding on education and research collaboration.

Published in Nature Protocols and led by the University of Eastern Finland, an international team of researchers has published the first harmonized exposure protocol for ecotoxicity testing of microplastics and nanoplastics.

A new study by the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University found that the benefits of car preheating for both fuel economy and emissions are minimal.

Scientific research offers different perspectives to the fruit – here’s how experts of biology, nutrition, history and theology approach the essence of an apple.

A recent study led by researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Montreal finds that Arctic soil methane uptake may be larger than previously thought, and that methane uptake increases under dry conditions and with availability of labile carbon substrates.

The Research Council of Finland and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland have granted funding for nine development research projects.