Giving the hull of your boat can help save you fuel - and cut greenhouse gas emissions

It’s World Seagrass Day so what better time to discover these amazing marine powerhouses

Seven European partners, including offshore renewable energy and Earth Observation specialists, have teamed up for the BLUE-X project. Together, they will develop a satellite-based decision support tool to accelerate offshore renewable energy deployments. This is the first ​​blue energy Horizon Europe project funded by the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).

Juan Auz and Phillip Paiement (Tilburg Law School) argue that "global climate negotiations embody neocolonialism because the Global North introduced insidious temperature targets, enabling silent yet significant devastation in the Global South at and below the 1.5°C threshold."

Scientists used DNA metabarcoding to show for the first time that jellyfish are an important food for amphipods during the Arctic polar night in waters off Svalbard, at a time of year when other food resources are scarce. Amphipods were not only observed to feast on ‘jelly-falls’ of dead jellyfish, but also to prey on live jellyfish. These results corroborate an ongoing ‘paradigm shift’ which recognizes that jellyfish aren’t a trophic dead-end but an important food for many marine organisms.

What better day to start being better friends with wetlands than World Wetlands Day? Here are some ideas to get you started:

Onewater is currently accepting “Letters to the Sea” from this age group. These will be recited at our Somos OceanoS ‘Voices from the Shore' event at the 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference in Barcelona.

And excretion rate may determine whether or not these microplastics also bioaccumulate across trophic levels