Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• Microplastic contamination in east Antarctica sea ice
• Effects of a deep-sea mining experiment on seafloor microbial communities and functions after 26 years
• Temperature-related biodiversity change across temperate marine and terrestrial systems

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – May 2020

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