14 Oct 2025

Photo by Mandy Henry   Marine conservationists have deployed 4,000 native European oysters housed within 20 specially designed concrete-alternative cubes off the coast of Tyne and Wear, marking the first time this approach has been trialled at scale in UK waters. The innovative structures, created from six tonnes of Marine Crete—a seawater-resistant, carbon-neutral concrete alternative—aim […]

14 Oct 2025

Photo by Vitaly Gariev   Children and young people aged 9 to 14 are being introduced to the challenges of coastal flood resilience and climate change through CoastCraft, a custom-built Minecraft world publicly launched on 3rd October. The educational game, developed for Minecraft Education and aligned with the curriculum in England, challenges players to respond […]

17 Oct 2023

The European Marine Board launches publications on coastal resilience and blue carbon: Building Coastal Resilience in Europe: European coasts face multiple, interacting and cumulative pressures including those resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. sea-level rise, Ocean warming, Ocean acidification, extreme events) and localised activities such as fishing, aquaculture, waste disposal and coastal urbanisation. These […]