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Flooding and coastal erosion

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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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  Environmental Monitoring at Calstock flood defence improvement scheme

  Measuring the effects of new Calstock intertidal wetland on water biogeochemistry
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  Addressing Challenges of Coastal Communities through Ocean Research for Developing Economies (ACCORD)

  The coastal and marine environments of South East Asia and the Western Indian Ocean (the regional foci of ACCORD) are rich and diverse, possessing high levels of biodiversity and productivity. However, the coastal ecosystems and the services they provide are under threat from growth in human activit...
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  Coral Communities: Building Socio-Ecological Resilience to Coral Reef Degradation in the Islands of the Western Indian Ocean.​

  Improving the resilience of communities and coral reefs to changes anticipated as a result of climate change is an issue of huge global importance. Hundreds of millions of people rely on coral reefs to provide essential services such as food and coastal protection. These ecosystems also contribute s...

21 September 2026

7 out of 9 Planetary Boundaries breached: PML joins calls for UN security briefing 

With seven out of nine Planetary Boundaries now crossed, “now is the time to act” urges PML’s Professor Helen Findlay, who today joined international scientists and organisations calling for an annual UN security briefing.

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  Parliamentarians take to our lab – and the seas – to discover how ocean research supports environmental decision-making 

  Yesterday, a group of cross-party UK parliamentarians joined us in the laboratory and set sail aboard

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  PML backs call for safeguards on emerging ocean carbon removal technologies 

  Plymouth 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 2026

  Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s research on mangrove ecosystems has been featured in Asia Research News 2026, highlighting ongoing collaborations between the UK and Malaysia.

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  Peat and pressure in pristine waters: investigating environmental change in the Falklands 

  PML’s Professor Andy Rees reflects on three decades of research in the remote Falkland Islands, expl...