19 Aug 2025
Photo by Maxwell Andrews The Scottish Government has announced historic Marine Protected Area (MPA) status for significant shipwreck sites in Orkney and Shetland waters, making it a criminal offence to remove artefacts from some of Scotland’s most important underwater heritage sites. The designation will primarily protect what remains of the German High Seas Fleet […]
19 Aug 2025
Photo by National Cancer Institute Scientists have discovered a marine-derived molecule that triggers an explosive form of cancer cell death, offering a potentially revolutionary approach to cancer treatment that harnesses the ocean’s untapped pharmaceutical potential. The compound, dubbed EPS3.9, was secreted by marine bacteria found off the coast of Taiwan and has demonstrated the […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by Stephanie Harlacher Record-breaking sea temperatures drive unprecedented changes The UK’s seas have experienced their warmest start to any year since records began, with average surface temperatures in the seven months to the end of July more than 0.2°C higher than any year since 1980, according to BBC analysis of provisional Met Office […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen High-stakes negotiations resumed in Geneva on 5th August for a legally binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, with delegates from 175 countries attempting to finalise an agreement that has eluded negotiators for nearly three years. The resumed fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), scheduled to run […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by Veronica White First floating wind demonstration project approved for Celtic Sea Flotation Energy and Cobra have secured full onshore and offshore planning approval for their 100 MW White Cross floating offshore wind project in the Celtic Sea. North Devon councillors granted consent for the onshore infrastructure in May, with North Devon Council […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by Engineered Solutions Historic auction failure signals crisis in German offshore wind policy Germany’s latest offshore wind auction ended in unprecedented failure, with the Federal Network Agency receiving no bids for two North Sea sites offering a combined capacity of 2.5 GW. The German Offshore Wind Energy Association (BWO) announced that no bids […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by Luke McKeown A federal judge in Hawaii has overturned the Trump administration’s attempt to allow commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument, ruling that commercial fishing remains illegal in the federally protected area in the central Pacific Ocean. Judge Micah WJ Smith’s Friday decision reverses an April letter from […]
12 Aug 2025
Photo by alexlesho17 After years of scientific investigation, researchers have finally identified the cause behind one of the largest marine mass mortalities on record—a bacterial pathogen that has killed more than 6 billion sea stars along the Pacific coast since 2013. A team of West Coast researchers published their breakthrough findings in Nature Ecology […]
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