Monthly Archives: August 2021

First Ever Microplastics Detected in the Näätämö Arctic River, Two Year Monitoring Mission Documents Urgent Changes

Snowchange has led the implementation of a large-scale monitoring mission in Russia, Finland and Norway Arctic regions from 2020 to 2021 -“Waters of Health”. It was funded by Nordic Environmental Finance Corporation – NEFCO (The Programme for Environment and Climate Co-operation-PECC). … Continue reading

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Nationally Relevant, Extremely Complex Rewilding Process of Linnunsuo Peatland Comes to an End

Linnunsuo peatland complex, a wetland and a degraded peatland, totaling 180 hectares, in the village of Selkie, North Karelia, Finland comes to a successful end. Rewilding Linnunsuo alleviates loading to river Jukajoki, emerges as a carbon sink and a bird … Continue reading

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