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Waste transport story of M/S Onyx (former C Express) soon over (SYKE 10/11/2009)

After years in the Vasa harbour, the former passenger ship Onyx can now leave. At least the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) will no longer prevent it. Two years ago SYKE issued a transport ban on Onyx, in those days still known as C Express, because there was reason to suspect that the owner intended to get the ship scrapped. The owner had not applied for a waste transport permit. Tomorrow the Finnish Marine Administration will carry out its own inspection. Then the ship will probably leave the harbour.

Summary review on harmful algal bloom monitoring in Finland 2009: No major blooms of cyanobacteria this summer (SYKE 10/15/2009)

As usual, the occurrence of cyanobacteria in the summer 2009 was regulated by the weather conditions. Due to the absence of long continuous warm periods strong algal blooms were not formed. Compared with long-term averages, the algal bloom situation in lakes last summer was better than usual. In the sea areas the cyanobacterial bloom situation was also mostly calm.

Extinction debt threatens many species (SYKE 10/14/2009)

New report on nutrient inflow from Northwest Russia to the Gulf of Finland (SYKE, MOE 10/12/2009)

Threshold values of climate change and protection of seas challenge the environmental policy  (SYKE 10/1/2009)

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