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Climate Change
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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)
Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) (also known as Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal oCDR) activities are designed to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere using the marine environment and its chemical and biological processes.
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Offshore energy
Globally and in particular in UK waters there is a huge development of renewable energy infrastructure mainly led by offshore wind. The provision of clean energy is vital for sustaining prosperity whilst aiming for net zero carbon emissions and limiting global temperature rises. However, the degree ...
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Blue carbon
Blue carbon research focuses on the ways that oceans and vegetated coastal ecosystems, like mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass beds, contribute to the global carbon budget.
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Flooding and coastal erosion
Climate change is leading to rising sea levels and an increased number and severity of extreme weather events which are putting coastal communities at risk of flooding and coastal erosion.
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Sea-level rise
Sea level has been rising for most of the last hundred years, with potential devastating impact on coastal communities. The challenge is to quantify this accurately enough that regional patterns can be discerned and understood, and the contributions from thermal expansion and from ice sheet melting...
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Ocean acidification
The term ocean acidification is used to describe the ongoing decrease in ocean pH caused by human CO2 emissions, such as the burning of fossil fuels. This is having an adverse effect on many important marine species such as corals, oysters, crabs and plankton. Due to the unprecedented rate of acidif...
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Air-sea gas exchange
Ocean-atmosphere exchange has profound implications for the environment and the Earth’s climate.
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Establishing a Framework for Quantifiable Evidence of Ecosystem Change in Floating Offshore Wind (EQUIFy)EQUIFy is a pioneering research project led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory under the NERC and The Crown Estate Ecological Effects of Floating Offshore Wind (ECOFlow) programme. The project will develop a robust, transferable framework to quantify and understand ecosystem change across the full lifecy... -
Climate and Marine Production (CAMP)Climate and Marine Production (CAMP) is improving our understanding of ocean productivity and how it responds to climate change by enhancing marine ecosystem and biogeochemical models. -
Tipping Points and Abrupt Changes in Marine Ecosystems (TIME)The Tipping points and abrupt changes In the Marine Ecosystem (TIME) project is developing new ways to identify early warning signs of major changes in marine ecosystems. By combining satellite observations, in situ measurements, and ecosystem models, TIME aims to improve our understanding of how ma... -
Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, Fluxes and Exchanges (SCOPE)In the Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools fluxes and Exchange (SCOPE) project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), we bring together an international team of experts to study the ocean carbon cycle from space to better understand how much carbon the ocean stores and ho... -
Closing the budget in marine atmospheric Oxidative Capacity through the quantification of Oceanic VOC emissions (COCO-VOC)Roughly half of the oxidation of methane (a key greenhouse gas) and non-methane volatile organic compounds (VOCs) occurs over the oceans via reactions with the hydroxyl radical (OH). Some of these reactions lead to secondary organic aerosols (SOA), which are important for cloud formation, and ozone,... -
Valuing Marine Artificial Structures (VALMAS)VALMAS is a £5.6 million UK research programme that examines how marine artificial structures, such as offshore wind turbines and oil and gas platforms, interact with marine ecosystems and society. Plymouth Marine Laboratory is a key project partner, with Dr Steve Watson as Deputy Project Lead, con...
Related News
11 June 2026
Detected from space: 20 years of data shows declining photosynthesis in UK and surrounding waters
A new study by scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has revealed a significant long-term decline in ocean productivity across large parts of the north-east Atlantic, raising concerns about the future health of marine food webs, fisheries and the ocean’s ability to absorb and sequester carbon dioxide.
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PML scientists contribute to UN ocean assessment warning of compounding threats but also pathways towards a sustainable futureThis week the third World Ocean Assessment was launched which includes major contributions by PML scientists. This assessment is the only global integrated assessment of the world’s ocean covering environmental, economic and social as...
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Can Marine Protected Areas withstand climate change?As the world marks World Ocean Day 2026 under the theme ‘Strong Marine Protected Areas for Our Blue Planet’, PML’s Dr Liz Talbot expla...
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PML announces new Head of Group for Environmental IntelligenceIt was announced this week that
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MEDIA: Uncertainty about weakening Atlantic currents isn’t a reason to wait – it’s a reason to actPML’s Professor Helen Findlay has written for Mongabay.com about the growing concerns surro...
