High sea surface temperatures are expected to weaken ocean carbon sinks and damage coral reefs.

VLIZ zoekt een onderzoeker die geologie, archeologie en offshore onderzoek samenbrengt in de unieke wetenschappelijke uitdaging om met geavanceerde mariene technologieën het verborgen verleden van de ...

Bioinspired flow sensors mounted on underwater robots enabled motion estimation and detection of an upstream wake.

Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says

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Twilight zone fish help regulate carbon and are critical to the food web. Yet they are being caught in massive amounts, and scientists say the impact is unknown.

In hun nieuwste boek 'Het vreemde leven in de oceaan: Van diepzeemonsters tot microben' nemen Jan Mees en Colin Janssen je mee op een reis in de oceaan. Voor iedereen die de zee beter wil begrijpen en beschermen.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

Meer dan 8000 door hengelaars verloren loden visgewichten werde'opgevist' van twee schapswraksites in de Belgische Noordzee. Samen goed voor 2.5 ton lood. Een inventaris legt niet alleen de omvang van...

The International Carlo Heip Award (cycle 2023-2025) granted to Prof. Philippe Bouchet: passionate taxonomist, explorer, researcher, taxonomic Mollusca editor, founding father of MolluscaBase and over...

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...

Earth is increasingly ‘out of balance’, as more heat is trapped in the atmosphere, driving global warming.

A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...

Based on a thorough literature review and expert consultation, this study provides an inventory of all introduced non-indigenous species (iNIS) reported for Belgian marine and brackish waters. The dat...