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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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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,... -
Valmas: Valuing Marine Artificial StructuresVALMAS 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... -
C-BLUES: Carbon sequestration in BLUe EcoSystemsThe C-BLUES project aims to significantly advance knowledge and understanding of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) – seagrasses, tidal marshes, mangroves and macroalgae – to reduce scientific uncertainty, improve reporting of blue carbon, and promote the role of blue carbon in delivering cli... -
Ocean ICU: Improving Carbon UnderstandingThe Horizon EU OceanICU is a five year project that seeks to gain a new understanding of the biological carbon pump and its processes in order to provide fundamental knowledge and tools to help policy makers, regulators and Ocean industry–fishing and mining, along with the wider blue econo... -
ProBleu: Promoting ocean and water literacy in school communitiesProBleu aims to mobilise and engage students, school communities, and the wider community across the EU and associated countries to enhance understanding, stewardship, and literacy about oceans and waters, with a focus on restoring them by 2030 and growing the Network of European Blue Schools. -
AgZero+ Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farmingPlymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is a partner in a major five-year £13.8 million research programme, named “AgZero+’, to support the UK’s transition towards home-grown food production that is sustainable, carbon-neutral and has a positive effect on nature.
Related News
15 May 2026
PML shares marine planning knowledge and tools at Caribbean UNESCO summit
This week a PML scientist has been sharing cutting-edge marine spatial planning knowledge and tools with Caribbean nations at a high-level UNESCO meeting in Colombia, to help secure a more sustainable ocean future in the region.
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PML’s data architect selected for prestigious national DAFNI FellowshipPML’s Dr Tom Mansfield has been selected as a 2026 Fellow of the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (
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PML’s Professor Shubha Sathyendranath MBE awarded prestigious Nansen Polar Bear AwardA legacy of marine science: PML’s
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PML backs call for safeguards on emerging ocean carbon removal technologiesPlymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) has joined international organisations in backing a new joint statement calling for robust governance, transparency, and public participation and trust in the development of engineered marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches....
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MEDIA: PML’s research on ‘Mighty mangroves’ in Asia Research News 2026Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s research on mangrove ecosystems has been featured in Asia Research News 2026, highlighting ongoing collaborations between the UK and Malaysia.
