The Aland Islands are Finland 's autonomous region, comprising over 6,500 islands and skerries in the Baltic Sea. From ...

On Sweden’s southern tip, the twin towns of Skanör and Falsterbo offer miles of soft white sand, shallow turquoise water, and ...

The restorative powers of sea air and sunshine have been championed for centuries. But a change in weather patterns is ...

Fishers do not usually wish for a "perfect storm". But Latvian boating communities are hoping for exactly that: a rare ...

Sea rescuers and wildlife activists in dinghies approach a whale to cut it loose from fishing nets off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

Sea rescuers approach a whale that got caught in fishing nets before another team cut it loose, off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000.

The eastern Baltic cod has shrunk dramatically in size in recent decades due to rapid evolution — changes at the genetic ...