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11 Nov 2025

MarineNews

Photo by Chris Marquardt   Leading polar scientists have issued a stark warning that five widely publicised geoengineering proposals for the Arctic and Antarctica are unlikely to work, could harm fragile ecosystems, and risk diverting attention from urgent emissions reductions. The comprehensive assessment, published in Frontiers in Science, examined technological interventions proposed to delay or mitigate climate impacts […]

03 Dec 2024

MarineNews

Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining. Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters for precious metals – an area equivalent to Italy – situated between Svalbard and Jan Mayen Island in the Arctic region. The […]

10 Sep 2024

MarineNews

New technology built at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) that can measure the smallest trace of light beneath the ocean surface has revealed photosynthesis occurring at greater depths than previously believed.  The discovery is part of a new international study recently published in Nature Communications that shows how the photosynthetic potential of phytoplankton […]

13 Aug 2024

MarineNews

In a recently published paper titled ‘Narwhal, beluga and bowhead whale responses to marine vessel traffic: A systematic map’ researchers looked at interactions between increases in marine vessel traffic and how Arctic whales respond to marine vessels and vessel-associated activities. Exposure to human activity Arctic whales (bowhead, narwhal, and beluga) have historically been shielded from […]

15 Jul 2024

MarineNews

A presumption that rapidly melting Arctic sea ice will open up new shipping routes has sparked a warning from scientists investigating the fast-changing ice conditions. Although seasonal sea ice – the ice that thaws in summer and reforms in winter – has been shrinking at a rate of knots because of climate change, this has […]

18 Oct 2023

NewsWater

“What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic”: EAC calls for better focus of Arctic issues in Whitehall and funding boost for research Rising sea levels, contributed to by Arctic ice melting, could risk 1.5 million UK properties flooding, with growing evidence suggesting that changes in the Arctic could make weather events in […]

15 Aug 2023

MarineNews

The UN treaty on the high seas, signed in June, succeeded the fishing treaty, as an even more useful legal tool for protecting international waters. To date, all of the Arctic’s protected marine regions have been inside the 200-mile exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of individual countries. The largest such protected area, designated in 2019, is […]