Mar Báltico

Economy

Poland cut the Vistula Peninsula to no longer depend on the Russian passage in the Baltic Sea, but the billion-dollar canal inaugurated in 2022 still faces shallow lagoon, low cargo ship traffic, and the need for constant dredging to function as a commercial route.

Carla Teles 26/05/2026 at 18:09

Science and Technology

Denmark deploys four 10-meter robot ships to monitor the Baltic Sea, protect submarine cables, and track invisible threats following explosions, sabotage, and rising tensions with Russia.

Ana Alice 20/05/2026 at 23:05

Science and Technology

Sweden resumes in Luleå the largest dredging of its modern era and will remove 22 million cubic meters to take the port beyond its 50,000-ton limit, make way for 160,000-ton ships, and unlock the ore route in the Baltic Sea.

Carla Teles 09/05/2026 at 23:05

Science and Technology

Denmark begins to sink 89 giant concrete blocks, 217 meters long and weighing 73.5 thousand tons, into the Baltic Sea to build the world’s longest immersed tunnel and connect the country to Germany in 10 minutes by car.

Carla Teles 07/05/2026 at 11:45

Science and Technology

A geologist teaching students to map the bottom of the Baltic Sea identified something unusual on sonar in 2021: a line of stones meandering for almost 1 kilometer at a depth of 21 meters, revealing the largest megastructure of the Stone Age ever found in Europe, about 11,000 years old, built by hunters when the Baltic Sea did not yet exist.

Valdemar Medeiros 30/03/2026 at 19:17

Interesting facts

The sea goes to its lowest level in history and a warship sunk on purpose nearly 400 years ago emerges.

Alisson Ficher 24/03/2026 at 17:23

Retorno da águia-marinha ao Báltico altera comportamento do vison-americano, reduz travessias entre ilhas e protege colônias de aves costeiras.

Interesting facts

Sea Eagle Returns to Dominate the Baltic, Instills Fear in American Mink, Reduces Island Crossings by 10%, and Helps Save Coastal Birds Previously Ravaged by Nest and Egg Attacks

Alisson Ficher 18/02/2026 at 08:47

Fehmarnbelt Tunnel terá 18 km sob o Mar Báltico e reduzirá travessia entre Dinamarca e Alemanha para 7 minutos de trem.

Science and Technology

This Will Be The World’s Largest Undersea Tunnel: 18 km Under The Sea Connecting Denmark and Germany, 73,000-Ton Blocks Precisely Fitted, €7.5 Billion Investment, and Crossing Reduced to 7 Minutes

Alisson Ficher 12/02/2026 at 17:48

Explosão no Golfo da Finlândia: Navio cargueiro MSC Giada III sofre grave incidente a caminho da Rússia

Accidents

Explosion In The Gulf Of Finland: Cargo Ship MSC Giada III Suffers Serious Incident On Its Way To Russia

Noel Budeguer 06/02/2026 at 12:04

Após a Segunda Guerra, mais de 1,6 milhão de toneladas de munição química foram deliberadamente afundadas no Mar Báltico e recipientes corroídos já vazam mostarda e lewisita no fundo do oceano

Interesting facts

After World War II, Over 1.6 Million Tons of Chemical Munitions Were Deliberately Sunk in the Baltic Sea, and Corroded Containers Are Already Leaking Mustard Gas and Lewisite on the Ocean Floor

Valdemar Medeiros 06/01/2026 at 18:26

Suspeita de sabotagem de cabo submarino no Mar Báltico reacende temores sobre ameaças híbridas da Rússia e a segurança da OTAN.

Geopolitics

Baltic Sea Under Tension: Finland Investigates Submarine Cable Sabotage

Sara Aquino 02/01/2026 at 07:49

A incrível construção de US$600 bilhões: Represar o mar do norte é loucura ou genialidade?

Construction

The Incredible $600 Billion Construction: Is Damming The North Sea Madness or Genius?

Carla Teles 16/05/2025 at 18:37

Poland cut the Vistula Peninsula to no longer depend on the Russian passage in the Baltic Sea, but the billion-dollar canal inaugurated in 2022 still faces shallow lagoon, low cargo ship traffic, and the need for constant dredging to function as a commercial route.

Denmark deploys four 10-meter robot ships to monitor the Baltic Sea, protect submarine cables, and track invisible threats following explosions, sabotage, and rising tensions with Russia.

Sweden resumes in Luleå the largest dredging of its modern era and will remove 22 million cubic meters to take the port beyond its 50,000-ton limit, make way for 160,000-ton ships, and unlock the ore route in the Baltic Sea.

Denmark begins to sink 89 giant concrete blocks, 217 meters long and weighing 73.5 thousand tons, into the Baltic Sea to build the world’s longest immersed tunnel and connect the country to Germany in 10 minutes by car.

The sea goes to its lowest level in history and a warship sunk on purpose nearly 400 years ago emerges.

Sea Eagle Returns to Dominate the Baltic, Instills Fear in American Mink, Reduces Island Crossings by 10%, and Helps Save Coastal Birds Previously Ravaged by Nest and Egg Attacks

This Will Be The World’s Largest Undersea Tunnel: 18 km Under The Sea Connecting Denmark and Germany, 73,000-Ton Blocks Precisely Fitted, €7.5 Billion Investment, and Crossing Reduced to 7 Minutes

Explosion In The Gulf Of Finland: Cargo Ship MSC Giada III Suffers Serious Incident On Its Way To Russia

After World War II, Over 1.6 Million Tons of Chemical Munitions Were Deliberately Sunk in the Baltic Sea, and Corroded Containers Are Already Leaking Mustard Gas and Lewisite on the Ocean Floor

Baltic Sea Under Tension: Finland Investigates Submarine Cable Sabotage

The Incredible $600 Billion Construction: Is Damming The North Sea Madness or Genius?

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.