19 countries ratified the treaty during the conference, while other nations, such as the UK, formally committed to ratifying ...

29 Jun 2025 Positive ocean news: June '25 edition It's been a great month for making progress to protect and restore our seas. We round up the top good news stories for the ocean to celebrate the wins ...

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 ...

Marine Lake Beach Clean Let's clean up Cold Knap! This will take place across the 100m stretch that runs parallel to the marine lake. If we're blessed with good summer weather, then please do remember ...

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 ...

There are no appropriate management measures in place for Argentine shortfin squid caught in international waters. Unregulated fishing is of significant concern. This fishery is responsible for around ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Humpback sightings around the UK have become increasingly common in recent years. This may be due to the recovery of populations following the end of commercial whaling, which has resulted in the ...

Our beach clean data has shown an average drop of 80% in carrier bags found washed up on UK beaches. Following the introduction of charges on carrier bags over the last decade, data from our ...