Recent publications on impacts of climate change covering coastal erosion, implications for cultural heritage and changing marine fish communities in the Arctic. A paper on sandy coastlines under threat of erosion got some high-profile coverage with dramatic headlines Click here – but for a commentary and perspective on some of the assertions Click here. In the UK, risk assessments are considering the implications for cultural heritage (underwater, in the tidal zone and on land) from the northern advance of the blacktip shipworm on wreck sites to erosion threatening coastal locations Click here. For a biological perspective, more on the changing distribution patterns of Arctic and sub-Arctic fish communities in the Bering Sea and Barents Sea adapted from NOAA’s 2019 Arctic Report Card Click here

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