Dramatic changes in the abundance of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic

Spotted! Floating Plastic Litter Detected and Categorised Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A new AI technique pioneered by scientists at PML uses images from a vessel-mounted camera to identify different types of marine plastic.

The State of South-West Seas in 2021

Plymouth Marine Laboratory has contributed to the eighth report in the series, which brings the marine and coastal community together to record change...

£3 million for new carbon capture project and pilot plant: SeaCURE

Plymouth Marine Laboratory are part of a new carbon capture project that could pave the way for large-scale removal of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory successfully deploys state-of-the-art scientific data buoy off Plymouth

The advanced technology is a key part of the Smart Sound Plymouth network of autonomous platforms.

Highlights from the 2022 UN Ocean Conference

Plymouth Marine Laboratory scientists were delighted to have been able to play a prominent role at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, in recognition o...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory contributes to UNESCO’s pilot 'State of the Ocean' report

Plymouth Marine Laboratory’s Director of Science Steve Widdicombe has co-authored Chapter 2 in UNESCO’s pilot ‘State of the Ocean Report’ – ...

How viable and safe is offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS)?

The findings of a world-first pilot study involving marine system modelling and biodiversity scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) will hel...

UN Ocean Conference focused on innovation to stop the rapid decline of ocean health

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) scientists will play a prominent role at the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference from 27 June to 1 July in Lisbon, P...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory reveals plans for the world's first long-range autonomous research vessel

Plymouth-based M SUBS Ltd were commissioned to design the 24m “Oceanus‘

PML selected by Turing Institute for new programme to tackle environmental issues using data science and AI

The new expanded skills programme will involve ten UK organisations focused on solving a broad range of critical environmental and sustainability prob...

'The Language of Life' disrupted by climate change

Climate change is disrupting essential chemical communication processes between organisms – “the language of life’ – in all types of the Earth...

International scientists to gather for major air-water gas exchange summit

The Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces (GTWS) meeting occurs every five years and brings together approximately 150 scientists from countries all over the...

Urgent actions required to sustain future seafood consumption

Climate change challenging the Ocean’s capacity to provide, according to a new paper co-authored by PML’s Dr Carol Turley.

Pioneering use of AI exposes the extent of microplastics in Arctic zooplankton

A PML-led study and international collaboration with Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute which utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to identify micr...

PML response to new government energy strategy

The UK Government’s “British energy security strategy‘ (published April 7 2022) sets out how Great Britain will “accelerate homegrown power fo...

PML celebrates 20 years of marine science excellence as an independent charity

Friday 1 April 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) becoming an independent organisation with charitable status.

Losing the cover of darkness

Study shows advances in street lighting are reducing the efficacy of coastal species’ camouflage

Vodafone, Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Marine Laboratory announce use cases for world’s first 5G marine-focused testbed

PML scientists supporting international agreement on plastic pollution

Professor Nicola Beaumont and Dr James Clark among the contributing authors of a brief issued by the North Atlantic Microplastic Centre (NAMC) to supp...