A new report finds only 3.5 percent of the ocean effectively protected worldwide and a funding gap of 14 billion dollars a year, with formal coverage heading for 12 to 15 percent by 2030.
The tag should track the animal for six months. It is the high point so far of the Madeira Ocean 2026 expedition, which runs until 28 October around the islands' marine protected areas.
The municipal assembly backed the deal on Tuesday night. The race gets the empty Kasa da Praia on the seafront for 50 euros in rent, and the city pays for the building, a museum and the events.
An AIMM study of seven encounters with its own research boat found eight orcas, mostly juveniles, making contact, one of them new to the behaviour. The authors say it is still spreading and that better mitigation is needed.
Okeanos researchers at the University of the Azores read the identification tags on stranded lobster-trap plastic: 63 percent came from the United States, 76 percent of those from Maine, carrying dates from 1983 to 2023.
The MSC's 2026 Fishing for the Future report makes the Iberian sardine its cover rebuild case study: adult population off the Portuguese-Spanish Atlantic has quadrupled since the 2015 trough, validating the joint Portugal-Spain management plan.
