15 Jul 2025
A new study published in Nature has found that nanoplastics—plastic particles smaller than one micrometre—now appear to make up the majority of plastic pollution in the ocean. Researchers from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research estimated that around 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics are present in the upper layers of the North Atlantic Ocean, based […]
16 Jan 2024
The Scottish Government has published its Marine Science and Innovation Strategy which it says highlights the crucial role of science and innovation in realising the full potential of the marine environment. The Strategy – part of the Scottish Government’s Blue Economy Vision to 2045 – is said to be a blueprint for ministers to utilise the best […]
25 Oct 2022
Unpaid labour, mental-health disorders, discrimination and abuse are rampant concerns in marine science, according to a survey of students and early-career researchers in the field. The following extract is from an article published in Nature and considers a research paper from Frontiers in Marine Science published in August of 2022. Of the 492 […]
04 Oct 2022
The following marine related JNCC and Partnership Reports have been published to the JNCC Resource Hub: JNCC Report No. 694: Natural England and JNCC guidance on key sensitivities of habitats and Marine Protected Areas in English waters to aggregate resource extraction JNCC Report No. 693: Technical assistance programme for effective coastal-marine management in the Turks and Caicos […]
01 Aug 2017
EU funds development of integrated observing system for Atlantic Ocean EU-funded researchers are driving the development of an integrated system to apply a common strategy to a range of data about the state of the Atlantic which is collected by a variety of organizations via a number of means including buoys, floats, moorings and research vessels. […]