Héctor Toledo-Padilla explains how Ocean Census is providing crucial deep-sea data to support protection of this critically endangered species.

At the IMO Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers, Dónal Burke presented research demonstrating that enclosed spaces on ships can be more deadly than previously thought. 

At the IMO Intersessional Working Group on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), Gordon Meadow and Ross Macfarlane of MASSPeople proposed new competency standards.

Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) President Martin Shaw reflects on the papers submitted to the ninth session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Carriage of Cargoes and Containers.

Andy Wright talks us through IMarEST’s role at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Plastic waste in the water might be stopping - or interrupting - some shrimp-like creatures from reproducing. In a unique study, the ability of ‘shrimp like’ creatures to reproduce successfully was found to be compromised by chemicals found in everyday plastics.

How ESRI supports marine GIS professionals with seabed maps

Researchers from Australia studied the influence of pollution on the sex ratio of clutches of sea green turtles. This species is at risk of extinction from a current lack of male hatchlings. They concluded that exposure to the heavy metals cadmium and antimony, accumulated by the mother and transferred to her eggs, may cause embryos to be feminised. Pollution may thus compound the female-biasing influence of rising global temperatures on green sea turtles.