A recently published doctoral thesis shows Monoporeia affinis benefit from eating cyanobacteria. Good news as cyanobacteria will spread northwards with the climate change.

Thriving bacterial communities in the seabed bind phosphorus that would otherwise leak back into the water, and the presence of the bacteria in turn depend on bottom-dwelling animals mixing the sediments.

A van full of sampling equipment leaves Stockholm University in the morning. Twelve hours later it returns, carrying hundreds of bottles, jars and test tubes filled with water from the Baltic Sea.

Methane hydrate clogs pipelines, is difficult to extract profitably, and exists in quantities sufficient to screw up Earth’s climate. Researchers from Stockholm University, consider this confounding cage compound.

New study: Methane emissions offset carbon uptake in Baltic macroalgae habitats. Restoring such ecosystems could therefore be an important nature-based solution to mitigate climate change.

The seabed and the bedrock could play an important role for the green transition; for mining of minerals and storing of carbon dioxide. But the environmental consequences of such activities are not fully understood.

Researchers at Stockholm University welcome the proposal from Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Norway to ban a majority of PFAS-substances from products being used and sold within the European Union.

Researchers at Stockholm University strongly support the EU Commission's ambition to strengthen the directive, they also stress the importance of including PFAS in the list of indicator substances.

The new global framework for biodiversity can make a real difference for the the Baltic Sea. Although the agreement is not legally binding, 195 countries have signed it and have agreed to monitor and evaluate progress.

Sweden opposes the European Commission's proposal for further restrictions on fishing for the endangered eel, arguing that Swedish eel fishing is a cultural heritage.