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A diet with ice: how does the food web underneath the ice of the polar oceans work? - Life in the polar oceans is under pressure due to global warming. Marine Biologist Fokje Schaafsma went to the Arctic and Antarctic regions to study... -
How do we provide the world with sufficient and clean water? - One of the large problems the world is facing, is how to supply sufficient and qualitatively good freshwater. This issue is high on the agenda of the... -
High-res data offer most detailed look yet at trawl fishing footprint around the world - About a quarter of the world’s seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a net along the... -
New monitoring report Northern Fulmars and plastics - A new report has been published on the monitoring of plastics in stomachs of Northern Fulmars beached in the Netherlands. This indicator is used in... -
'The need for independent and internationally organised fisheries science is greater than ever before' - Fishing conflicts have existed as long as fishing itself. In several seas – such as the North Sea – a good balance has been struck between... -
Frequently asked questions about The Ocean Cleanup - Wageningen Marine Research is committed to long-term research of plastic litter and its impacts on marine wildlife. From that background, the media... -
Japanese oyster helps endangered Dutch flat oyster - The flat oyster, inextricably linked to the Dutch North Sea for hundreds of years, nearly disappeared last century. Only one island population in Lake... -
Diving in the North Sea: Marine life and research in Image Collections - New photos from Wageningen Marine Research have been added to Wageningen University & Research Image Collections. Some of these photos were taken... -
Green sea turtle digging its own watery grave due to invasion of non-native seagrass - Seagrass species from the Red Sea is outcompeting the native seagrass species in the Caribbean, where the green sea turtle lives. These iconic turtles... -
Environmental experts: oil platforms present ecological opportunities - The sea around oil and gas platforms often brims with life, with room for endangered and exotic species. However, under current regulations obsolete...