Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by ...

Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an alarming rate, with the European Union on Thursday vowing to make the sea an "urgent priority".

Finland became the first country to ban cargo ships from dumping sewage and scrubber sludge in its waters. The Baltic may ...

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, ...

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.

Baltic cod once measured more than a meter long and weighed up to 40kg, forming the backbone of the region’s fishery. In the ...

A 2024 study said sea surface and sea floor temperatures have increased by 1.8°C and 1.3°C in the Finnish archipelago in the northern Baltic Sea, in the period from 1927 to 2020.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The massive amount of World War II-era ammunition still resting on the Baltic Sea floor requires a coordinated international cleanup effort, not unil ...

A looming environmental crisis is quietly unfolding beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea, where vast quantities of chemical ...

Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an alarming rate, with the European Union on Thursday vowing to make the sea an "urgent priority".

Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an alarming rate, with the European Union on Thursday vowing to make the sea an "urgent priority".