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: Posted On September 9, 2019

Horizon Europe: the EU plans to spend €100 billion on research – here’s how to get the most from it

Imagine that you could decide how to invest €10 billion in research projects. Now imagine that you have to make this decision not once, but every...

: Posted On August 23, 2019

The Last Straw: Blinded by Plastic Pollution

As the innocent seahorse grips on to the immortal cotton bud our hearts grow heavy with guilt. The entire world has been shown the harsh reality of...

: Posted On June 4, 2019

D-Day: The Starting Point for Modern UK Oceanography

Prior to the landings on 6 June 1944 on the Normandy beaches, a small research group was formed in the Admiralty Research Laboratory at Teddington...

: Posted On September 4, 2019

How Advances in Numerical Modelling Can Better Address Intensified Environmental Management Demands

Long-term offshore oil and gas activities, port expansion projects and more recent growth in the offshore renewable and deep-sea mining sectors...

: Posted On August 23, 2019

The Time is Right: A Public-Private Partnership for the World’s Deepest Submersible

Private equity investor and underwater explorer Victor Vescovo will soon sell his submarine, which he calls the Limiting Factor. And the U.S....

: Posted On May 29, 2019

An Extinction Timeline and How We Can Alter It

In 2017 on a dive trip to Cuba my friend Manny Ramos took me to what he said was one of the best snorkeling beaches in the country three hours...

: Posted On August 28, 2019

The Future of Flash Photography: Dying for the Shot – Or Maybe Not?

There is a quiet buzz on the RHIB as they approach the site.

: Posted On August 19, 2019

Top Climate Scientist: I Put Myself Through Hell as An IPCC Convening Lead Author, But It Was Worth It

In my day job, I am a scientist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland studying things such as how agriculture contributes to climate change and...

: Posted On March 26, 2019

Battle for the Deep Seafloor

Human interest in the marine environment originally focused on the highly productive coastal zone, where food and energy resources were readily...

: Posted On August 23, 2019

Insight into the Social Lives of Fiddler Crabs

In the warm coastal shorelines of the tropics, mangrove forests flourish. The saltwater jungle constructed by a jumble of trees compressed together,...