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Seabed Carbon Risks: What Our Evidence Shows

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Fishing boat crashing through rough waves

A new technical briefing reviews the latest evidence on how trawling, other human activities and climate change affect seabed carbon.

Unlocking Coastal Carbon Potential: Collaborative Research on Saltmarsh, Kelp, and Seabed Carbon under the UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership

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As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, this week for the UN Climate Change Conference COP30, the role of nature-based solutions in addressing climate change is once again under the spotlight.

Cefas’ Seascapes project: understanding the benefits and trade-offs associated with managing marine natural capital

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A power boat rocketing past the rock stacks along the Jurassic Coast,

By Clement Garcia and Frances Mynott, Cefas leads of the mNCEA programme. The Cefas-led project, ‘A seascape natural capital approach for sustainable management (Seascapes)’, is part of a 3-year Defra funded marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. mNCEA …

Expanding the concept of 'blue carbon’: Cefas science on coastal ecosystems and their role in tackling climate change

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turtle swimming above seagrass

The importance of mangroves and other blue carbon ecosystems in mitigating the impacts of climate change is once again high on the agenda at this year’s Nature, Land-use, and Oceans Day at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai. …