News

19 countries ratified the treaty during the conference, while other nations, such as the UK, formally committed to ratifying ...
All four governments in the UK have published the latest assessment of how our own patch of the global ocean is doing; it makes for sobering reading.
Read our latest news articles and blogs about the ocean, its wildlife and the work we do to protect the ocean across the UK and UK overseas territories.
There are about 2,000 gigatonnes of carbon stored on land. In comparison, the ocean holds a massive 37,700 gigatonnes of carbon. That’s over 18 times more! Most of this carbon stays locked in the ...
Beach stretch: Pegwell Bay Date and time: 27 Jun 2025, 10 a.m. to noon Meeting point: Meet: On the beach - just below the former hoverport access road Cliffsend, near Ramsgate, Kent CT12 5HY. *Access ...
Renewable energy The ocean can also help us achieve Net Zero and give us the best chance of combatting climate change by generating renewable energy, and the UK is looking to its marine areas to ...
Cod stocks around Greenland were benchmarked in 2023, resulting in a number of changes to the understanding of the various stocks. Therefore, 2023 is the first year of advice based on the new approach ...
Although it’s hard to determine the life span of the different species of marine turtles, they do tend to live for several decades. This is partly due to the fact that species of marine turtle can ...
Our mission to protect our ocean has never felt more urgent than now, as we confront a hidden but widespread threat to our seas – PFAS ‘forever chemicals’.
The first step to protect our ocean is to ratify the High Seas Treaty as soon as possible by urgently laying it before Parliament. At the UN Ocean Conference in June, the UK Government committed to ...