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

The ministry claims that this allegedly fits into the European efforts to counter the so-called Russian shadow fleet ...

According to the report, there are also some shortfalls, such as Ukrainian troop numbers, that the country’s Western allies cannot fix ...

While the origins of the term might sound wholesome, the process of eutrophication as it is now in the Baltic Sea certainly isn’t: it refers to vast oxygen deprived seawater areas, alternately named ...

With Sweden and Finland now under NATO’s formal umbrella, this regional grouping has emerged not as a quiet coalition, but as ...

A coordinated assault may have just struck at the heart of NATO's lake, the tense region of the Baltic Sea surrounded by a fortress of allied nations slowly descending to the edge of confrontation.

One person has died and 14 people left wounded after a Russian drone attack hit several high-rise apartment blocks in the ...

Today, says Dmytro Pletenchuk, the Ukrainian navy’s spokesman, the sea is a military “grey zone”. Apart from patrol boats, neither navy risks sailing. There is a stand-off, but no ceasefire.

Called Task Force X Baltic, the experimentation – running from 9 to 27 June – is a pilot activity, the first at-sea application of NATO Allied Command Transformation ’s (ACT’s) overarching Task Force ...

Quantum computers promise to solve puzzles that overwhelm the fastest super‑computers, yet training many of today’s flagship algorithms often feels like pedaling in sand. Researchers call the trap a ...

One of four Saildrone Voyagers designed to help monitor the North and Baltic Seas. (Image: Saildrone) Jun 18, 2025 at 11:12 am CEST 4 min. read By Oliver Bünte ...