Europe is one of the world’s most popular travel destinations, famous for its food, culture, architecture, ...

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Reef diving might be the obvious jumping off point as a diver, but beyond coral landscapes there are hundre...

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Whales are beautiful, elegant in the water, and intelligent in ways we do not even fully understand. To see...

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Big news, animal lovers! We have just launched our brand new SSI Marine Mammal Ecology course, where you ca...

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The Canary Islands are the home of the Angelshark, and if you want to meet this beautiful shark species, yo...

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New evaluation method shows the impact of fishing on "by-catch species"A new method for assessing fish stoc...

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Dramatic environmental damage in the FehmarnbeltIn August 2019, the German navy blew up 42 ground mines in ...

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Research team opens up a source for new antibioticsThe team around Prof. dr. Christian Jogler from the Frie...

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OSPAR meets – Growing Resistance to UK platform disposal"Shell - The sea is not your dump"Almost unnoticed ...

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The wind blows streaks of powdery snow over the ice, forming wave patterns, elevations and valleys as one w...

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Researchers studied natural gas leaks in the Mediterranean off ItalyThe storage of carbon dioxide in the se...

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Immediate protection measures for seabirds urgently neededNABU has formally filed a complaint at the Europe...

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33 days of invaluable knowledge about bluefin tunaLast year, marine scientists succeeded in providing a 250...

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Trawl nets endanger many speciesIn Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), the marine environment should be particul...

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More than 30 percent of fish stocks being overfished A report published on July 7th in Rome by the FAO h...

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WDC reports on possible causes of whale strandings This spring, there have been numerous strandings of s...

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More than one ton of fishing nets have been recovered near Sylt in the North Sea by divers from Ghost Fishi...

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Since April 16th, the Greenpeace ship Beluga II has been underway on a new journey to publicise the growing...

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German environmental organisations have called for a more effective level of marine protection in the North...

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Seabirds aren't the only animals that are threatened by the bane of microplastics. In two separate studies,...

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A crater at the bottom of the North Sea has yielded fresh insights into the fate of methane released at the...

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On World Food Day on October 16th, the WWF reiterated its warning about the impact of overfishing on man an...

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