Blue Innovation. On the 15th of October 2016, at the initiative of the African Union, African heads of state gathered at Lomé in Togo for an extraordinary summit on maritime safety and security and development in Africa...
The “Blue bio value” program
The equation simply doesn’t have a solution if we continue to do things as we do today. We won’t be able to supply a growing demand and reduce CO2 emissions to desirable levels without changing dramatically the way we...
Precision 3D imagery thanks to a new submersible laser camera
The European Project UTOFIA (‘Underwater Time Of Flight Image Acquisition’) has enabled researchers to design a new kind of underwater camera. Unlike current technologies that lack precision and are very time-consuming...
Naval Énergies ebbs away from marine current power
On the 26th of July 2018, Naval Énergies—a subsidiary of the French company Naval Group, Europe’s leading naval defence contractor and a major actor of renewable marine energies—announced that it would stop investing in...
The blue economy employs over 3.5 million people in Europe
The share of the blue economy in the European Union (all activities linked to the oceans, seas and coastal areas) is constantly increasing according to the EU’s first annual report on the matter, published in June 2018...
A campaign to preserve the ecosystem of the Southern (Antarctic) Ocean
In the 1980s, the oil and mining industries coveted Antarctica’s natural resources, but international efforts led to the signature of a historic treaty in 1991 that defined the continent as ‘a natural reserve, devoted...
A new ocean zone reveals the existence of new marine organisms
A team of scientists lead by oceanographer Alan Jamieson has discovered a new ocean zone that they propose to name ‘rariphotic’. According to a March 2018 article published in Nature Scientific Reports, this new, poorly...
