07 Oct 2025
Photo by Kirill Fokin The Ocean Rights Movement has launched a new global hub at oceanrights.com, providing a centralised platform for advancing an ethical human-ocean relationship. The website, powered by Ocean Vision Legal with support from Gallifrey Foundation, offers resources for advocates working towards legal recognition of the ocean as a living entity with intrinsic […]
06 Oct 2025
Seabird Resilience Fund: Taking Flight – now open for applications SMEEF is delighted to announce the launch of the first open grants round of the Seabirds Resilience Fund. ‘Taking Flight’ is designed to accelerate progress against the Scottish Seabird Conservation Action Plan and its aim of maximising seabird prospects and building resilience in seabird populations. […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by NASA Seven of nine boundaries now transgressed The 2025 Planetary Health Check reveals that seven of nine planetary boundaries have now been breached, with ocean acidification joining the danger zone for the first time. The assessment demonstrates that more than three-quarters of Earth’s support systems are not in the safe zone, marking […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by Ricardo Resende Industry rejects scientific advice as catastrophic The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has recommended zero catch quotas for all cod stocks in the Northern Shelf for 2026, prompting strong responses from fishing industry representatives who warn the advice could devastate fleets across Scotland and England. Mike […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by Sergejs Horoshmans Massive marine heatwave rivals continental scale A marine heatwave rivalling the size of the contiguous United States has returned to the North Pacific Ocean, marking one of the most significant warming events since monitoring began in 1982. Rachel Hager, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries, said this new marine heatwave has grown “approximately […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo Nicholas Doherty Court grants preliminary injunction U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth has granted a preliminary injunction allowing Revolution Wind to restart construction on the $6 billion offshore wind project, ruling that the Trump administration failed to justify its sudden decision to halt work on the more than 80% completed development. The judge said that the government’s […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by Bernd Dittrich Unexpected biodiversity on contaminated surfaces Scientists using undersea submersibles have discovered crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of Second World War explosives in the Baltic Sea, finding more creatures living on top of warheads than in the surrounding seabed at a former weapons dump site. Andrey Vedenin, study […]
30 Sep 2025
Photo by David Clode Forensic approach tracks species on the move Scientists have developed a method combining environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis with traditional visual surveys to track tropical fish species migrating into cooler waters, detecting species movements that conventional monitoring overlooks. The research, published in Diversity and Distributions, surveyed fish communities along 2,000 kilometres of […]
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