Apr 17, 2025 | Project, UE
JPI Oceans invites interested stakeholders to submit new ideas for Joint Actions that can inspire the international research agenda in the marine and maritime domain. In 2024, two submitted ideas were merged into the scoping action on “Ocean Oxygen Loss.”...
Apr 17, 2025 | Mediterranean Sea, Project, UE
The first oceanographic expedition of the PNRR MER project has been successfully completed: the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) has carried out an unprecedented exploration of the submerged mountains of the Mediterranean Sea.Thanks...
Mar 13, 2025 | Project, UE
Starting May 1 2025 ships operating in the Med SOx ECA are required to comply with alimit for sulphur content in fuel oil that is a fifth of the legal limit outside this area (0.10 per cent mass by mass (m/m), compared with 0.50 per cent m/m allowed outside the Med...
Jan 14, 2025 | Mediterranean Sea, Project, RAC, UNEP/MAP
INFO/RAC and the Permanent Secretariat of the Pelagos Agreement signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 18 December 2024. The agreement represents a significant milestone for the protection of the marine environment, especially for the protection of the mammals that...
Jan 13, 2025 | Mediterranean Sea, Project
ACCOBAMS, the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area, proposedASI, the ACCOBAMS Survey Initiative, a synoptic survey of the entire region. The main objective of the ASI wasto estimate the abundance...