Despite encouraging growth in marine protected area coverage, the global effort to safeguard the ocean still faces a critical shortfall. Not in ambition, but in the people, skills, funding and systems needed to turn conservation promises into lasting protection, according to a new report.
Rising ocean temperatures are reshaping marine life in the North Sea, one of the fastest-warming sea regions on the planet. Combined with decades of intensive fishing activity, these changes are driving cold-water fish species toward northern habitats and deeper waters.