Recent and projected future changes in the temperature and chemistry of marine waters
around the UK and Ireland are having, and will in the future have, effects on the phenology …

At the 2010 British–Irish Council meeting of Environmental Ministers, the Marine Climate
Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP, www. mccip. org. uk) launched its fourth Report Card …

Marine legislation, the key means by which the conservation of marine biodiversity is
achieved, has been developing since the 1960s. In recent decades, an increasing focus on …

Nutrient enrichment has been identified as one of the major threats to coastal and marine
ecosystems, because of potential risks of eutrophication and impacts such as oxygen …

Excessive nutrient loading to the marine environment from different sources and pathways,
including rivers, has led to nutrient over-enrichment and the phenomenon of eutrophication …

Sustainable management and utilisation of the North-west European Shelf (NWS) seas
could benefit from reliable forecasts of the marine environment on monthly to seasonal …

This report is intended to summarise the current trends in Ireland's ocean climate. Use has
been made of archived marine data held by a range of organisations to elucidate some of …

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere have increased inexorably since the
industrial revolution, due to fossil fuel combustion, cement production and land-use change …

Fish are a key component of marine ecosystems contributing to food webs as both
consumers and prey items. As such they interact closely with their biological, physical and …

The ocean and the atmosphere are a tightly coupled system, with heat, momentum and
mass (including gases, aerosols, sea spray, and water vapour) continuously exchanged …