It is well known that the Baltic Sea is contaminated with remnants of munitions from past wars. However, many questions ...

"One peculiarity of the Baltic Sea is that in the regions of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, waves hit the shore at a very steep angle. This means that even small waves can transport a significant ...

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has sounded the alarm over such incidents, posting on X last week that the government takes all reports of damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea seriously.

"We now know that the oysters in the Sound can reproduce there and that their larvae can be transported into the Baltic Sea by ocean currents, but we don't know if they can adapt to a life there ...

The discovery has implications for predicting the future of seaweed in a changing ocean. In the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea, bladderwrack is the dominant seaweed species as it is one of the ...

For decades the Baltic Sea has served as a delicate buffer zone between a growing number of NATO members and Russia, more recently becoming a new front line for symmetric and asymmetric threats ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two issues: How the Baltic Sea countries are looking ... me on any of these issues on X @RikardJozwiak, or on e-mail ...

The south-western Baltic Sea has about 3,000 kilograms of dissolved toxic chemicals released from unexploded ordnance, according to a new study by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

The discovery has implications for predicting the future of seaweed in a changing ocean. In the brakish waters of the Baltic Sea, bladderwrack is the dominant seaweed species as it is one of the ...

Whales normally live in the open waters of oceans, but sometimes individual animals swim from the Atlantic Ocean into the Baltic Sea through the Danish Straits. The rescuers hope the whale will ...