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Plastic Pollution /
UK
The results of this year's Great British Beach Clean are in and would you believe, out of the eye-watering 6,048kg of rubbish collected from the UK and Channel Island's beaches, a plastic mannequin leg wasn't even the weirdest find? Read More
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Deep sea mining /
New Zealand
Coral damage encounter has drawn yet more ire from local NGOs over the New Zealand government’s ‘hollow commitment to ocean protection’, which continues to authorise bottom trawling fishing practices within its vulnerable marine ecosystems. Read More
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Conservation /
UK
An underwater seed-blaster and a custom-built Remote Operated Vehicle are among the new technological developments being trialed by the Ocean Conservation Trust which could just 'revolutionise' the way in which seagrass conservation efforts are carried out across the UK. Read More
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Marine Life /
Massachusetts
On a mission to collect 'millions to billions' of high-quality contextualised vocalisations between sperm whales, scientists have started using AI, robotics, and autonomous drone technology. Read More
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Colombia /
High Seas
World leaders have adopted a plenary decision to update the process through which biologically and ecologically significant areas are selected for protection across the marine space, including within the High Seas. Read More
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North Sea /
Sustainability
The EU's move to take sandeel fishing ban in UK waters to tribunal has been labelled a "tragic undermining" of national and international environmental regulations by environmental campaigners. Read More
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Marine Life /
Norway
Thanks to new ocean-mapping methods, scientists have pin-pointed the moment 2.5 million Atlantic cod made a feast of a shoal of 23 million capelin in the waters off Norway. Read More
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Marine Protected Areas /
Spain
ClientEarth and Oceana are working together to file new legal action against the Spanish government after it was discovered that bottom trawling is taking place in many of the MPAs in Spanish waters. Read More
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Marine Life /
Norway
Comb jellyfish continue to fascinate scientists having now shown the "unprecedented ability" to reverse development and revert from adult medusa to cydippid larva "as if going back in time."  Read More
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