The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing ...

Pope Francis greets and blesses the crowd in the Vatican square as he makes a touching appearance during Palm Sunday. The ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile ...

Discarded explosives were dumped into the Baltic and North seas after World War II. Their deadly legacy is still with us.

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant underneath sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

40 US Marine personnel have been stationed in Finland - their use of unmanned aerial vehicles has been part of NATO’s Baltic Sentry surveillance operation. The operation was set up in response ...

The find was made by the association's president, Jacek Ukowski, who was exploring the Baltic beach with fellow member Katarzyna Herdzik. "It's the most valuable of my discoveries. Accidental.

NATO began a new mission called Baltic Sentry to patrol the Baltic Sea. Michael Schwirtz, an investigative reporter with the International desk at The New York Times, takes us aboard one of these ...

Supported by By Michael Schwirtz Photographs by James Hill Michael Schwirtz and James Hill spent 14 hours aboard a French naval plane as it patrolled the Baltic Sea, monitored commercial shipping ...

In a breakthrough study, researchers have successfully revived dormant algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea nearly 7,000 years ago. The tiny diatom cells, buried in sediment without light ...

Fully active again even after around 7,000 years without light and oxygen in the Baltic Sea sediment: the diatom Skeletonema marinoi. Credit: S. Bolius, IOW. After spending nearly 7,000 years ...