Policy; Research

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report published by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is out now. The headline is that the world has missed all 20 of the Aichi biodiversity targets, in what the RSPB describes as “a lost decade for...

Earlier this month, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) released their report ‘ Developing the evidence-base to support climate-smart decision-making on MPAs ’ on the finding of the Defra-funded Climate-smart MPAS project JNCC was...

In the wake of the newly declared climate emergency, a major new publication by the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) highlights the current and future impacts of climate change on UK seas and dependent industries and society. More...

Last year Dr Matt Frost spent a week in parliament shadowing the local southeast Cornwall MP Sheryll Murray. On Tuesday May 29 it is her turn to shadow Dr Frost. Sheryll Murray will spend the day at the Marine Biological Association's Plymouth...

Dr Matt Frost (Director, MBA) and Prof. Willie Wilson (Director, SAHFOS) hosted Minister for the Environment Dr Therese Coffey at the Citadel Hill laboratory, Plymouth on March 1st. A working lunch was held in the MBA’s Wolfson Room where Dr Coffey...