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The Antarctic sea ice extent for May and June have reached record lows, by a significant margin, since the beginning of satellite records. The large deficits of sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, and the western part of…

The OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC), hosted by Mercator Ocean International (MOi) and launched in January 2023, aims to a predicted Ocean based on a shared and coordinated global effort in the framework of the UN Ocean Decade. To accomplish…

The State of the Climate in Europe 2022 report was published today, and it is the second edition of this annual series. This joint publication by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service summarizes…

The European Maritime Day (EMD) took place in Brest, France, on 24-25 May and gathered Europe’s maritime community to outline joint actions concerning maritime affairs and the sustainable blue economy. The European Commission shared its ambition for a European Digital…

Today, leading scientists that contributed to the recent IPCC report of working group 1 on climate change have launched a project to update key climate indicators every year so people can be kept informed about critical aspects of global warming.…

This World Oceans Day, we are happy to celebrate advancements for Mercator Ocean International (MOi) towards becoming an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the Ocean, developments of the European Digital Twin of the Ocean, catalysing ocean prediction activities worldwide, and the…

The OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (DCC) was officially launched with its kick-off meeting on January 11th-12th, 2023. Since then, some important milestones have been reached, notably the formation and launch of several Regional Teams, fully aligned with OceanPrediction’s main objectives.…

The Italian Marevivo Association has launched a very interesting initiative to raise awareness among children on important environmental issues and teach them about the sea’s biodiversity and the problems it faces, including plastic and pollution. In collaboration with the Italian…

Not much is known about the movement of juvenile turtles after they are born and enter the open ocean, and this is a critical time for turtles as their survival rate is lower in these more vulnerable years. Thanks to…

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released its annual report on climate change, providing an overview of the state of the global climate and weather patterns over the past year. Together with numerous meteorological and hydrological organisations around the world,…