Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• Changes in fish communities due to benthic habitat shifts under ocean acidification
• Failures in the design and implementation of management plans of Marine Protected Areas: An empirical analysis for the North-east Atlantic Ocean
• Failures in the design and implementation of management plans of Marine Protected Areas: An empirical analysis for the North-east Atlantic Ocean

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – April 2020

This issue explores:

• Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica
• Illicit trade in marine fish catch and its effects on ecosystems and people worldwide
• Adjacency and due regard: The role of coastal States in the BBNJ treaty

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – March 2020

This issue explores:

• Climatic and local stressor interactions threaten tropical forests and coral reefs
• Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades
• Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protection area targets

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – February 2020

This issue explores:

• Mobile Protected Areas for Biodiversity on the High Seas
• Oxygen Deoxygenation: Everyone’s Problem – Causes, Impacts, Consequences and Solutions
• Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – January 2020

This issue explores:

• New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
• Can microplastics pose a threat to ocean carbon sequestration?
• Global ocean methane emissions dominated by shallow coastal waters

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – November

This edition explores:

• Cold-water corals and deep-sea sponges by-catch mitigation: dealing with ground fish survey data in the management of the northwest Atlantic Ocean High Seas
• Rapid increase in Asian bottles in the South Atlantic Ocean indicates major debris inputs from ships
• A fast-moving target: achieving marine conservation goals under shifting climate and policies

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – October

This edition explores:

• Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

• Global Climate in 2015-2019: Climate change accelerates
  
• Ongoing ocean warming threatens the rich and diverse macrobenthic communities of the Antarctic continental shelf

• Mangrove lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef support coral populations persisting under extreme environmental conditions

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – September

This edition explores:

• Persistent acceleration in global sea-level rise since the 1960s
  
• Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific
  
• Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – August

This edition explores:

• Eight urgent, fundamental and simultaneous steps needed to restore ocean health, and the consequences for humanity and the planet of inaction or delay
  
• Long-term Reef Monitoring Program – Annual Summary Report on coral reef condition for 2018/19
  
• Winter storms accelerate the demise of sea ice in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – July

Every month Communications Inc undertakes a critical review of recently published scientific literature from peer reviewed journals. Undertaken by one of our marine science colleagues, research is focused on specific topic areas including climate change, marine pollution, deep-sea ecosystems, the high seas, coral reefs, marine protected areas, fisheries and ocean industries.

Reports are sourced from databases such as Web of Science and Google Scholar and several weekly, individuals and daily marine-focused newsletters.

Keeping abreast of developments in relevant science is key to informing solutions and policy required to protect our ocean and our aim is to provide this information in an easily digestible and applicable format.

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