Open Directory - Regional: Europe: Regions: North Sea: Science and Environment
See also: - A department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, which models and monitors marine ecosystems, and represents Belgium in inter-governmental conventions. Information about the sea, environmental pressures, and their role and activities. [Multi-lingual] - The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) describes the status of the stocks and environmental problems of the UK fisheries. - Article on a major natural disaster which hit the coastlines of Belgium, Denmark, England, France, and the Netherlands 31st January - 1st February 1953; explains its causes, impact and discusses future risk. - A project in the University of Birmingham (UK) to explore Late Quaternary and Holocene geology, and create models which may be used by the aggregates industry to plan extraction and mitigation strategies. Information about project, partners and publications. - Supports a sustainable marine environment. Includes list of meetings, members and publications. - An Atlas of Oceanic Internal Solitary Waves prepared for Office of Naval Research. - Provides sustainability courses and workshops for the maritime and fishing sectors, schools, governmental agencies and businesses. - Dated EU Interreg IIIB programme has seven partners around the North Sea region with the mission to reduce marine litter in the North Sea. - The European association of non-governmental environmental organisations working to protect and restore to health the marine environment of the European seas and the wider North East Atlantic. - 'BBC News' article about The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) recommending major cuts in the catches of fish including haddock and plaice. (June 07, 2007) - BBC report on how archaeologists are mapping a prehistoric "lost country" of hunter-gatherers, now hidden below the North Sea. (April 23, 2007) - Blog of a Greenpeace campaigning voyage to declare 40% of the North Sea a marine reserve. (September 24, 2004)
