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Friday, February 16th, 2018
Analysis of fragile seagrass meadows by Cardiff University and Swansea University scientists has shown that consistent pollution from sewage and livestock waste is affecting their survival. Seagrass meadows are flowering...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
It's slimy green fronds are something you'd usually try to avoid on a trip to the seaside. But now Scottish producers claim that the country's native seaweeds are going mainstream,...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
The impacts of climate change aren’t a distant threat for the Pacific shellfish industry. Acidifying seawater is already causing problems for oyster farms along the West Coast and it’s only...
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Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Richard Lilley is a marine ecologist, and director of the marine conservation charity Project Seagrass. In this guest blog for Green Economy Coalition, he gives his personal perspective on the conservation...
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
© Project Seagrass Urgent action is required to stem the loss of the world’s seagrass meadows, to protect their associated fisheries. Writing in the journal Fish & Fisheries, Dr Richard...
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Friday, December 1st, 2017
Some 95% of the ocean is completely unexplored, unseen by human eyes. That naturally means that there are many marine environments that we don’t know much about, but that we’re...
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Friday, November 24th, 2017
A recent blog at Save Scottish Seas looks at the value of Scottish seagrass meadows and how citizen science can help to help to discover the location and extent of...
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2017
The importance of seagrass is further emphasised in a new report that looks at how they underpin fishing worldwide. These flowering plants, which grow in near-shore waters, are under intense...
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