natural capital

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.

Integrated marine monitoring to protect the Irish Sea

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By Michelle Devlin, Naomi Greenwood, Carolyn Graves, Robert Brookes (Cefas), Mike Best (EA), Eugene O’Kane, Adam Mellor (AFBI), Mark Charlesworth (NRW), David Johns (MBA) Monitoring water quality and plankton in the Irish sea involves the joint effort and expertise of …

Seascapes project: New Year 1 reports published as part of Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme

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By Frances Mynott and Clement Garcia, Cefas leads for the mNCEA programme. Our understanding of the benefits that our marine and coastal environments provide are improving through the  Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. Started in 2022, mNCEA is …

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 …