Eutrophication – agriculture - the main issue of the Baltic Sea

An abundance of nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture and sewage contributes to a changing ecosystem and a dead, anoxic seabed. Read the latest research and analyses about eutrophication here.

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Measures improve the Baltic Sea environment – even in a changing climate
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

The New BSAP – Contributions from Science
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Climate change will increase the pressure on the Baltic Sea

Policy brief

  • Eutrophication

Fact Sheet: Can changing our diets help the Baltic Sea?
  • Eutrophication

Seven-year project shows that eutrophic coastal areas can be saved
  • Eutrophication

What is internal load?

Articles

  • Eutrophication

New film explains why the situation in the Baltic Sea doesn't seem to improve
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

New study: Greater consideration for contaminants is needed in marine monitoring programs
  • Eutrophication

Multi-modeling to evaluate MSFD measures at European scale
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication

The great plankton change – good or bad for the Baltic Sea ecosystem?
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants

The New BSAP – Contributions from Science
  • Eutrophication

what would the Baltic Sea look like without any nutrient reductions?
  • Eutrophication

Q/A: Researcher Michelle McCracking explains how 17 million tons of old phosphorus on land affects today's measures against eutrophication
  • Eutrophication

17 million ton pool of phosphorus affects eutrophication work
  • Eutrophication

On the EAT Lancet report: "Choosing less ham from Parma will not affect the Baltic Sea"
  • Eutrophication

This is what Europe's agriculture looks like in 2030
  • Eutrophication

Mussel farming an uncertain measure against eutrophication
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Baltic Eye’s work is analysed in a new international study
  • Eutrophication

Seven-year project shows that eutrophic coastal areas can be saved
  • Eutrophication

What is internal load?
  • Eutrophication

Geoengineering will not solve eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
  • Eutrophication

Better nutrient recycling can reduce EU dependence on foreign phosphorus
  • Fisheries
  • Eutrophication
  • Pollutants
  • Habitats

Baltic Sea 2.0: Researcher wants to rewrite the story about the sea
  • Eutrophication

New study: Nutrient pollution “diets” work, but they take time
  • Eutrophication

Seminar on internal load
  • Eutrophication

Better manure management
  • Eutrophication

Baltic Sea eutrophication is decreasing

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