International team of scientists launch Atlantic-wide coral mapping project. Coral Cartography is being formally launched at the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance in Brazil. An international team of scientists […]
COP30 saw the ocean rising, but the deep sea remains in the margins. As COP30 concluded in Belém, Brazil, a noticeable shift in broad ocean ambition was observed. However, the […]
PML championing Deep Sea Biodiversity and Sustainable Ocean Planning at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. A delegation of Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), scientists are currently attending the UN Ocean Conference to […]
International scientific community calls for urgent action to protect the deep from destruction of bottom trawling. As the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) opens in Nice, leading marine scientists from across the […]
Deeper commitments needed to safeguard the ocean’s depths. As the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) comes to a close, the […]
Civil society urges immediate action to protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems. Six years after the adoption of the EU deep-sea fishing Regulation that prohibited bottom trawling below 800 meters in EU […]
Seamounts and other deep-sea ecosystems on the high seas get further protection from bottom trawling in the Northwest Atlantic. The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) […]
New rules will benefit fishermen and ecosystems. New rules by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have gone into effect on Jan. 1 to increase protections to deep-sea ecosystems by […]