21 Jun 2022
UK Government and Swiss Re Foundation backed programme announces nine community-led, coastal-resilience focused projects. All aim to build resilience in coastal communities vulnerable to climate change and reduce ocean risk through financial innovation. Based around the world, the projects now go through to the final assessment to receive support from the Ocean Risk and Resilience […]
22 May 2017
Bob Earll The spread of the non-native lionfish in the Caribbean has caused much concern and various measures including a revival of spearfishing for them has been problematic. This project, which is looking for crowd funding, shows just how far autonomous vehicle technology has come. Watch the video. It begs the question about whether there […]
04 Jul 2016
Jason Hall Spencer Rising sea temperatures are fueling a surge in the numbers of a carnivorous lionfish (Pterois miles) in the Mediterranean, and they’re preying on herbivorous fish species that are key to maintaining the seas ecosystem. “The lionfish is an Indo-Pacific fish and it sits well in that ecosystem as there are predators that […]
01 Mar 2015
The arrival of the Indo-Pacific lionfish in the Caribbean has been major source of concern flagging once again the increase of alien species throughout the marine environment. One element of the narrative was that since the Caribbean was devoid of natural predators for the lionfish its rapid expansion across the region would decimate reef fish […]