Climate change combined with pollution from farming and forestry could flip northern Europe's Baltic Sea from being a sponge for CO2 to a source of the planet-warming gas, scientists studying told ...

Over the last century humans have transformed the Baltic Sea – a unique and highly vulnerable place – from a clear-water ecosystem into a eutrophic (nutrient rich) marine environment. Today, it is ...

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.

Eutrophication has changed the chemistry of sediments at the bottom of the Baltic Sea so much that processes that counteract eutrophication are impeded. This is the finding of a new thesis from ...

From 1 July 2025, no more sewage or wastewater from open-circuit scrubbers may be discharged into the sea in Finnish territorial waters ...

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".

This year’s competition, with a total of 50 ships of different shapes and sizes, is themed around the alarming environmental status of the Baltic Sea, which is suffering from eutrophication ...

From salmon to herring and cod, Baltic fish stocks are so low that small-scale fishermen are leaving the profession. This is because of overfishing as well as the sea's changing conditions due to ...

A 2024 study said sea surface and sea floor temperatures have increased by 1.8 and 1.3 degrees Celsius respectively in the Finnish archipelago in the northern Baltic Sea, in the period from 1927 ...

A 2024 study said sea surface and sea floor temperatures have increased by 1.8 and 1.3 degrees Celsius respectively in the Finnish archipelago in the northern Baltic Sea, in the period from 1927 ...

The Baltic Sea –- connected to the Atlantic by the straights of Denmark, ... a process known as eutrophication. "A degraded ecosystem will be a net carbon source," Norkko said.

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.