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BioMimetx is a Portuguese Biotech company, that is inspired by Nature to research, develop and commercialize natural and innovative compounds recovered from bacteria. After an initial seed funding for the Proof of...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

In February 2018, DARPA (America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) announced the creation of a new research project to investigate the possibility of using marine organisms for surveillance and the rapid...

The Government of Quebec has decided to allocate 1.5 million dollars over a period of 5 years to the Centre de recherche sur les biotechnologies marines (‘marine biotechnologies research centre’, CRBM) in Rimouski...

The new version of the European Commission’s map of the oceans and seas has been given over 120 additional layers—from nature to tourism, security, energy, maritime transport, sea levels, consumption of fish and many...