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‘Tiny creatures gorge, get fat, and help fight global warming’: the BBC explores how zooplankton lock away planet-warming carbon.

Reflections from the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice; the biggest ocean conference in history.

Our new key stage one teaching resource takes young learners on a journey through the ocean, exploring marine habitats, animals, and the connection between humans and the sea.

Strong European bias in fishing gear data means climate cost of global trawling is still uncertain.

The Convex Seascape Survey is highly commended by InsuranceERM in the Climate Risk and Sustainability Awards 2025.

The BBC reports on recent our Antarctic fieldwork looking at how a century of industrial whaling may have affected the ocean and our atmosphere.

Convex Seascape Survey scientists go deep into Canada’s Saguenay Fjord to understand how the different species living in seafloor mud affect carbon storage.

‘When it comes to the climate crisis, brittle stars are the canary in the coalmine… As temperatures warm and ocean acidification starts to spread, they are literally dissolving’: Professor Martin Solan shares his fascination with brittle stars.

This new animation explains how our scientists use environmental DNA and carbon dating techniques to understand the origins of seafloor carbon stores and how they’ve changed over time.

In this clip, The National visits the Convex Seascape Survey team in Exeter to find out more about their work investigating sediment carbon stores and how the Survey’s open source data could be harnessed in the Arabian Gulf.

Speaking live from the UN Ocean Conference, Professor Callum Roberts advocates for a global ban on fishing and deep-sea mining in international waters, as well as highlighting the crucial role of seabed carbon stores and the potential risk to these stores from bottom trawling.

Take a deep dive into mud and the diverse, weird and wonderful invertebrates who live in it, with Dr Ceri Lewis on on The Convex Conversation podcast.