Standing on the coast and looking out to sea, you cannot detect the changes with the naked eye. But in northern Germany, sea levels are rising, as is the risk of flooding for the lower-lying coastal ...

Joint patrols are being mounted to protect undersea cables from Russian sabotage: localised cooperation is our best hope for now, says Swedish security expert Elisabeth Braw ...

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 ...

Intensive agriculture, forestry, heavy traffic, industry, shipping, and overfishing are all taking their toll on the world's second-largest brackish-water sea and its unique flora and fauna. Last ...

The BSAP Fund will invest EUR 1.3 million in eight new projects beginning in 2026 to improve the environmental health of the Baltic Sea. The funding follows a record 39 applications from seven ...

Although phosphorus and nitrogen river loads, the main cause for its eutrophication, have been significantly reduced, adverse effects such as algal blooms and oxygen depletion still massively occur, ...