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Sea-level rise

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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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  Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC)

  The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Sentinel-3A satellite in February 2016 and Sentinel-3B in April 2018, as the start of a long-term programme in making consistent high-accuracy measurements to enable climate research.
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  Sea State CCI

  Sea State CCI is part of the European Space Agency’s programme to deliver long-term homogeneous datasets covering many of the recognised Essential Climate Variables. The 15-member consortium for the Sea State project is led by LOPS/Ifremer, with PML involved in the Algorithm Development Team.
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  Sea level Climate Change Initiative (CCI)

  The main objective of the sea level CCI project is to produce and validate a Sea Level Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product. It represents the first phase of the ESA Climate Change Initiative program that aims at setting up in a second phase an "operational processing capacity of Earth ...

07 May 2026

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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  Ocean Action at COP30: Progress Made Despite Fossil Fuel Shortcomings

  PML delegates reflect on the 

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  Global food security and species survival at risk from accelerating ice loss, says major new report

  The ‘2025 State of the Cryosphere Report’ has been published with expert input from PML, among others

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  The Role of Climate-Smart Marine Protected Areas in Achieving 30×30

  PML’s Professor Ana M Queirós

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  Claiming land and wealth from the sea: the rise of ‘prestige reclamations’  

  A short communication calls