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Over £3.5m awarded to sustainable fishing projects as new funding round opens

The funding, from the government’s £100m UK Seafood Fund, will focus on a number of species vulnerable to overfishing along the English Channel.

BOEM and NOAA announce joint strategy for fisheries surveys

Agencies aim to mitigate offshore wind development impacts

New kind of tropical cyclone identified in the Indian Ocean

Flinders University oceanography experts have described a new kind of cyclone in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra after observing satellite surface winds in the region.

Offshore wind farms change marine ecosystems, study shows

The large-scale wind farms can strongly influence marine primary production as well as the oxygen levels in and beyond the wind farm areas.

A warmer Arctic Ocean leads to more snowfall further south, according to new model

With the Arctic Ocean being twice as sensitive to rapid warming than the global average, evaporation and subsequent changes to the hydrological cycle over northern Eurasia will become even more pronounced in the years to come.

Arctic carbon conveyor belt discovered

Understanding transport and transformation processes within the carbon cycle is essential to creating global carbon dioxide budgets and therefore also projections for global warming.

Negligible warming caused by Nord Stream methane leaks

Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, estimated the possible climatic impact of the leaked methane

Deepest scientific ocean drilling sheds light on Japan’s next great earthquake

Tectonic stress in Japan's Nankai subduction zone is less than expected

Research explores the potential for mechanical devices to clear the ocean of plastics

Mechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments.

Fishing gear lost at sea globally revealed

New research reveals nearly two per cent of commercial fishing gear ends ups in our world's oceans each year.

Scientists scour global waters testing ocean plankton and pollution

After a near two-year "Microbiome" mission around the world, scientists had gathered thousands of samples of marine micro-organisms in a bid to better understand ocean plankton and pollution.

NASA’s S-MODE field campaign deploys to the Pacific Ocean

NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) is converging on a patch of sea 110 nautical miles off the coast of San Francisco.

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