The giant Russian nuclear icebreaker Ural suddenly appeared near the German coast in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. It passed the island of Fehmarn, which belongs to the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ...

An oil tanker is on fire in the Baltic Sea off the coast of north-eastern Germany, the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service said on Friday. All seven crew members on the 73-metre Annika have been ...

Italian subsea cable firm Prysmian Group said Thursday it has added a new vessel - Barbarossa I - to its fleet."After the debut of the state-of-the-art 170-meter Leonardo da Vinci [vessel] in August ...

A luxury cruise ship was diverted to the site of a deadly collision between two cargo ships to assist in the “search and rescue” mission, according to stunned passengers enjoying their vacation on the ...

The AWI's citizen science project 'Microplastic Detectives' has analyzed 2.2 tons of sand from German coasts for microplastics. The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has ...

The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has increased to such an extent that plastics have become ubiquitous in our environment. Plastics of various sizes are also found ...