The shift that sparks nitrification: PML research resolves long-standing mystery within the nitrogen cycle

Where Science Meets Space Agencies: PML at IOCS 2025

The International Ocean Colour Science (IOCS) meeting is underway in Germany – one of the most important global gatherings for the ocean-colour an...

Ocean Action at COP30: Progress Made Despite Fossil Fuel Shortcomings

PML delegates reflect on the outcomes of the Climate Change Conference in Brazil    

PML scientist appointed as Co-Chair of leading ocean forecasting partnership

The National Partnership for Ocean Prediction (NPOP) brings together world-class expertise from the UK’s leading marine and oceanographic research c...

Microplastics pose a human health risk in more ways than one

New study shows that microplastics in the natural environment are colonized by pathogenic and antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The study team calls f...

From Dunes to Data: How Citizen Science Is Transforming Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring 

This guest article, written by Paula Brines i Blasco from Institut Metròpoli, highlights work within the GUARDEN project – a collaboration between ...

Local Plymouth schoolchildren star in new ocean literacy videos

Pupils from St Andrew’s CofE Academy in Plymouth have played a starring role in a new video series to bring ocean knowledge into classrooms across E...

PML Scientists Share Evidence on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal in Westminster

Discovering hidden ocean life in one of the UK’s most remote Overseas Territories 

Professor Kerry Howell is currently in Ascension Island – an isolated volcanic island in the South Atlantic, and one of the UK’s most remote Overs...

Ocean whirlpools reveal shifting patterns in plankton life across the North Atlantic

New research uncovers how huge circular rotating currents – known as ocean mesoscale eddies – are reshaping plankton communities as the climate ch...

Ocean action is climate action: PML science contributes to latest ocean and climate action report

The 2024-2025 Roadmap to Oceans and Climate Action (ROCA) report, released at COP30, highlights the critical role the ocean plays in combatting climat...

Bringing Ocean Science to COP30: In Conversation with Professor Matt Frost

The UN Climate Conference is taking place in Brazil from 10th – 21st November

No crew, no problem: PML’s autonomous vessel samples the Plymouth Sound for biodiversity data

PML and partners complete a successful sampling campaign in the Plymouth Sound with uncrewed surface vessel (USV) AutoNaut ‘Pioneer’. 

PML-led MSPACE project features in the COP30 UK Pavilion Showreel

The showreel is playing throughout COP30 in the UK Pavilion and highlights some of the best UK-developed products and services tackling climate chan...

New Survey: Help shape the future of 'Climate Smart' marine planning

The University of Essex are inviting input from UK marine policy makers, planners, industry representatives and the conservation community as part of...

£5.6M project to guide UK's offshore energy future launches in Plymouth

Scientists, political advisors and industry leaders from across the globe came together this week to mark the official launch of a multi-million pound...

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

COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion endorsed by UN Ocean Decade

It has been announced that the COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion – a free online platform connecting global audiences with the United Nations ocean and c...

NECCTON: A Franco-British partnership anchoring Europe’s ocean leadership

Horizon Europe project NECCTON, for which PML is project managing, was presented at yesterday’s high-level RISE FR-UK (Research and Innovation Excel...

PML’s Bryony Squires named recipient of prestigious IMarEST Apprentice Award

PML’s Plankton Apprentice Bryony Squires has been announced as this year’s recipient of the Lady Hamlyn Award for Apprentices by the Instit...

PML scientists contribute to international nitrogen impact guidance

The International Nitrogen Management System (INMS) Guidance Document on Nitrogen Impact Assessment Methods provides a comprehensive framework and pra...

Professor Smyth’s vision for the future of the laboratory

As he settles into the role of Director of Science, Professor Tim Smyth shares how he plans to build on PML’s strong foundation of collaboration and...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory works with IBM to launch new AI model to monitor ocean health

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) is pleased to announce the release of an innovative AI ‘foundation model’ for observing Earth’s oceans, in coll...

Insights into marine light pollution: PML scientists in Ireland for international ALAN summit

The event is the largest international scientific conference on the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN).