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 Baltic Sea has been under excruciating pressure for decades, as human activities have transformed it into one of the world’s largest “dead zones”. Due to a deadly trifecta of climate change, ...

Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic low. Measurements at the Swedish Landsort-Norra ...