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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.

Using a new historical tidal model alongside existing geological data, our research team have helped to explain the development of three large mud deposits across European seas. This new information could support effective management of these carbon-storing deposits.

‘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.

‘Mud is one of the most important natural archives of Earth’s past – holding clues of shifting climates, coastlines, ocean conditions and carbon storage.’ Dr Sophie Ward and Dr Zoe Roseby share how they use computer models to trace how carbon-rich seafloor mud patches have formed over thousands of years.

A group of international scientists, led by Callum Roberts from the Convex Seascape Survey, make a bold call for a permanent ban on all extractive activities in the high seas ahead of the UN Ocean Conference in Nice.

Lemma Shehadi from The National explores seabed carbon, the impact of human activities, and how the Convex Seascape Survey’s findings are highly relevant to the Arabian Gulf.

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.