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The 30 bottles of pre-French Revolution champagne recently recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea were a pretty awesome find. But the latest thing to show up in the far northern body of water is hardly anything to pop a cork over: a potentially toxic algae bloom covering 377,000 square kilometers, an area larger than all of Germany.

Finnlines, the Finnish short sea shipping line, reported sharply higher second-quarter earnings and revenues driven by a recovery in North Sea and Baltic roll on-roll off traffic.

Imagine scuba diving to a shipwreck 180 feet beneath the Baltic Sea and finding a cache of full bottles of sparkling wine. Upon returning to the deck of the dive boat, you pop the cork and what you taste is priceless.

Unsure of their actual number, authorities will now count how many porpoises there are in the Baltic Sea with the help of porpoise detectors that collect data from cetaecean sonar.

The island of Gotland attracts the party crowd and nature lovers, but is big enough for all comers.

A satellite image reveals the scale of a vast algal bloom, described as the size of Germany, spreading across the Baltic Sea.

AFP's Francois Campredon savours a bygone era on vintage Stockholm steamer S/S Storskär, which is over 100 years old, as it cruises through the archipelago and the Baltic Sea for an annual summer steamship parade.

PORTYOVAYA BAY, Russia -- Installation of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea is making good progress, with the first of the two lines reaching the landfall point on the Russian shore.