04 Mar 2025

The Scottish Government has commissioned a report scoping potential scenarios for the blue economy up to 2045, highlighting significant risks and opportunities. The report identified four possible futures: End of the Rainbow, Winner Takes it All, Status Woe, and Live Fast, Die Young.     Stakeholders that fed into the report agreed Scotland must pursue […]

04 Mar 2025

Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River. It also plays a critical role in the climate system by influencing the uptake of heat and carbon dioxide in the […]

04 Mar 2025

The ocean plays a vital role in regulating climate, supporting marine life, and providing food and jobs for billions of people. However, researchers warn that marine heatwaves are intensifying due to climate change, threatening the loss of these critical functions. Similar to heatwaves on land, a marine heatwave is defined as a period of unusually […]

04 Mar 2025

European seas have been subjected to decades of pollution, overfishing, and habitat loss, leaving many areas in need of urgent intervention, both to remove threats and return key species to the ecosystem. The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme is awarding US$25 million in grants to seven large-scale projects, to help accelerate the restoration of Europe’s […]

25 Feb 2025

The dispute over sandeel fishing in the North Sea marks the first time the UK and EU have been to court since Brexit in 2020. The outcome of the case could be hugely significant for seabird populations along the east coast and for UK-EU trade relations. A tribunal under the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) […]

25 Feb 2025

Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton will ‘listen’ to a UK city for the first time at scale through its network of optical fibre cables using a ground-breaking new technology. The researchers will be using a technique called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to capture sounds and vibrations throughout London and […]