New study reveals climate change’s toll on fish populations and calls for sustainable fisheries
A new study, led by Dr Angus Atkinson, the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, sheds light on a pressing concern: climate change is silently undermining the Ocean’s capacity to sustain fish populations. Co-authored by Mercator Ocean International’s oceanographer Maria Grigoratou and 9 authors from 6 different countries, the research uncovers a hidden amplification mechanism when changes in […]
The Ocean absorbed a record high level of heat energy in 2023, reveals a new study published in Nature magazine
A new paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, “Ocean Heat Content in 2023” coauthored by Mercator Ocean’s Karina von Schuckmann and Audrey Minière, sheds light on the global accumulation of Ocean Heat Content (OHC), which indicates the quantity of energy absorbed by the Ocean at varying depths and locations. The paper revealed that OHC […]
Exploring Mercator Ocean’s partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have been closely cooperating on a broad range of initiatives since the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2022. Areas of mutual interest include the development of global Ocean and coastal observation initiatives, the promotion of enhanced environmental management in developing economies […]