A huge international research programme has been launched to assess the health of the Atlantic Ocean. The iAtlantic project is the biggest ever mounted in the planet’s second largest ocean….
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Habitat loss endangers ecological relationships
Thursday, May 30th, 2019Habitat loss is the leading cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. Depending on their size, animals need a given amount of area to be able to find enough resources to maintain…
Marine plastic poisons oxygen-producing bacteria
Tuesday, May 28th, 2019We’ve all seen the impact of our plastic addiction. It’s hard to miss the devastating images of whales and sea birds that have died with their stomachs full of solidified…
20,000 pieces of plastic found on the Firth of Forth
Monday, May 13th, 2019Plastic pollution on the Firth of Forth could be far worse than previously thought, according to research from Dundee University. A study of a total of 48 square metres (517…
Plankton study charts rise of ocean plastic
Monday, April 22nd, 2019A trove of data showing when the Atlantic Ocean began choking with plastic has been uncovered in the handwritten logbooks of a little-known but doggedly persistent plankton study dating back…
Scotland land ownership ‘damaging communities’ in some areas
Thursday, March 21st, 2019Concentrated land ownership appears to be causing “significant and long-term damage” to communities in some parts of Scotland, a report has found. The Scottish Land Commission report found that power…
Citizen Science Comes of Age
Thursday, March 7th, 2019Increasingly, scientists are relying on data gathered by volunteers to make their research happen. A team of seven scuba divers crawled along the seafloor in a shallow bay off Tasmania,…
Minke whales recorded off east Scotland
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019Minke whales have been recorded off Scotland’s east coast for the first time, scientists have said. Noises the animals make called pulse trains were detected in recordings taken by a…
Farmed Salmon Disease Prevention Research
Friday, January 11th, 2019A major research initiative is to be launched to help understand and prevent diseases affecting farmed salmon – including sea lice and gill health conditions. Tens of millions of pounds…
SEPA launch salmon farming sector shake-up plan
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Scottish Fish Farm Image © SEPA A press release announcing their new Finfish Aquaculture Sector Plan and public consultation was published by SEPA on 7th November 2018, headlined: "Scottish salmon...
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