Research Team Launches Coral Cartography at AAORIA 2026
An international team of scientists is launching Coral Cartography: Mapping Atlantic Cold-Water Corals to support Area Based Management at the 2026 All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA) Forum, a flagship gathering of the Atlantic scientific community.Funded through one of the funding calls of the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP), a G20 initiative launched in 2020 to fast-track solutions to protect the world’s corals, the project unites experts from nine countries across the Atlantic in image-based survey, coral taxonomy, mapping, management
Iceland Identifies Atlantic Ocean Current's Possible Collapse as a Security Threat
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, current brings warm water from the tropics northward toward the Arctic, and the flow of warm water helps keep Europe’s winters mild.But as warming temperatures speed the thaw of Arctic ice and cause meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheet to pour into the ocean, scientists
EU-Backed Project Deploys OTEC Demonstration Unit off Canary Islands
of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) test site. The next phase will see the installation and connection of the cold-water pipe, completing the system ahead of full structural testing in the Atlantic environment.During this structural testing stage, the platform will face the rough conditions of the Atlantic Ocean, allowing detailed analysis of its resistance, materials, and design.Advanced sensors from Fugro will record gyroscopic and accelerometer data to monitor the vessel’s motion and, later, the cold-water pipe’s stability, correlating these with local wave data. Previous computer simulations
February 2026
