Tag: Climate change
New research on threatened ocean predators. A marine scientist at the Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Laboratory in Plymouth, UK, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to fund cutting edge ...
Climate Change Increases Fisheries Conflict Risk – A team of fisheries scientists and marine policy experts, led by a University of Rhode Island researcher, examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found ...
Climate change impacting upon understanding of MPAs. Climate change and warming seas are transforming tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems. Many of the world’s ...
Is cod becoming a stationary species in the Svalbard fjords? Climate warming is changing the distribution of marine species worldwide. In the Arctic, species from lower latitudes are expanding into areas previously dominated by Arctic ...
Rising CO2 levels will decrease fish diversity. Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the consequent changes created through ocean acidification will cause severe ecosystem effects, impacting reef-forming habitats and the associated fish, according to ...
UK plankton population has undergone sweeping changes. The UK’s plankton population – microscopic algae and animals which support the entire marine food web – has undergone sweeping changes in the past six decades, according to ...
Climate change will affect fish sizes. Global climate change will affect fish sizes in unpredictable ways and, consequently, impact complex food webs in our oceans, a new Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS)-led study ...
UK marine scientist awarded grant for climate change research. A marine scientist at the Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Laboratory in Plymouth, UK, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to ...
Tropical nations worst hit by climate-related fish shifts. Policymakers will need to step up to the challenges caused by significant shifts in fish species distributions caused by climate change, according to new research. Tropical countries ...
Study shows Pacific cod eggs vulnerable to temperature changes. The 2013 to 2016 marine heatwave—known as “The Blob”—is the largest warm anomaly ever recorded in the North Pacific, according to an article on the NOAA ...
European fish stocks moving northwards. Many European fish populations are on the move due to warming oceans and increasing numbers, according to new research from an international team of scientists led by the International Council ...
Sussex trawler ban to help kelp forest revival. A campaign to restore a large underwater kelp forest has been helped by an agreement to ban trawler fishing off the West Sussex coast, according to a ...
Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing Competition – The Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme yesterday (Monday 27th January) launched the Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing competition, where all primary school ...
EU fishers call for freeze on offshore wind farm development. On 22 January 2020, the seminar ‘Can Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Coexist?’ took place in the European Parliament hosted by MEP Peter van Dalen, ...
Argo float deployed in Atlantic by Galway family. Marine Institute Argo Float was deployed in December 2019 en route from Cape Verde Islands to French Guiana by the Quinlan-Owens family from Galway, on board their ...
Sea Change: how do we safeguard the future of our seas? How does the climate emergency affect our seas? What can we do about plastics in the ocean? Which fish should we eat? How can ...
Marine Protected Areas must be mobile. World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argued last week, ...
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