27 Mar 2025
Image description: Blue car sharply turning, spraying mud and water. Photo by Nikky Almon / Pexels. Data obtained by ENDS through Freedom of Information legislation has revealed the locations of outfalls which are classed in the National Highway’s Water Quality Plan as having a potentially ‘high risk’ or ‘very high risk’ of channelling polluted […]
25 Mar 2025
One of the biggest challenges facing the scaling of marine renewable energy is identifying the most feasible and economically viable locations for ocean current energy projects. A pioneering study from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University using more than 30 years of measured data from NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP) […]
25 Mar 2025
Image description: The torso of a person on the beach holding a plastic bag with litter in it. The person is wearing a grey tshirt, white shorts and plastic gloves. Image by Chaiyan Anuwatmongkolchai from Pixabay New evidence from the State of our Beaches report by the Marine Conservation Society revealed the amount of […]
25 Mar 2025
Image Description: Bluefin tuna on a black stone floor. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay Starting in 2024, an English Catch and Release Recreational Fishery (CRRF) for Blue Fin Tuna (BFT) was opened. Now, fishers with commercial licences who want to apply for an authorisation to fish commercially for bluefin tuna in English waters in 2025 can start […]
25 Mar 2025
Today (March 25) the Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans, Costas Kadis, is hosting an event to launch an EU-wide campaign about aquaculture in the EU. Image description: A row of seven fish farming nets in the sea. Image by Tapani Hellman from Pixabay The campaign is running under the title “EU aquaculture. We […]
25 Mar 2025
Image description: Bleaching at Lakeside Reef Front, Ningaloo. Photograph: Zoe Richards/Curtin University / The Guardian. Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs, Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east, are experiencing mass coral bleaching events simultaneously. Reef experts are reporting the events as “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”, in […]
25 Mar 2025
Two major new studies, both released today, have together demonstrated significant impacts of bottom trawling and demonstrate the feasibility of a transition away from trawling. Image description: Two trawling boats side by side at sea. Image by günter from Pixabay Trawling costs up to €11bn a year: Firstly, the study by National Geographic […]
25 Mar 2025
The UK government has launched a major new strategy to make Britain’s shipping fleet net zero by 2050 and drive growth in coastal communities. The Maritime Minister revealed the government’s new goals for all vessels that operate in UK waters and dock at UK ports to be carbon free and help vessel owners, operators and […]
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