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The 2021 edition of IUCN's Marine News magazine is out!  Catch up with all the news on marine-related activities from across IUCN, including from the regions and commissions.

The oceans have absorbed between 24% and 33% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions during the past five decades. While this uptake provides a valuable service to human societies by moderating the rate and severity of climate change, it comes at a cost for the marine environment through ocean acidification.  Leran more about this ocean threat by visiting our multimedia feature and discover the ocean acification impacts and activities from around the world via our interactive map.

From creating sustainable livelihoods and food systems to protecting endangered species and the clilmate, the business case for putting people and nature first is becoming clear.  And blue natural capital is a Nature-Based Solution that investors are getting behind. Discover more by visiting IUCN's multimedia feature on the Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility.

Without marine plankton our planet would be a different place. Future projections and impact metrics of plankton diversity around the world are now able to be seen graphically through the MAPMAKER tool.  An IUCN multimedia presentation explains the importance of plankton in the oceanic food chain and for climate regulation.  It also shows how the MAPMAKER visualisation tools allows data-driven decision-making on marine biodiversity conservation, enabling policy to be squarely resting on a science platform. 

IUCN has released a new report “Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action: Regional Results from Eastern and Southern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia” .  The result of IUCN's work across eight locations, the report  provides comparisons of the magnitude of plastic leakage and plastic pollution hotspots in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand, Viet Nam, the Republic of Cyprus, and Menorca (Spain).