There’s a relatively prevalent misconception that the rewilding of the ocean must be bad news for local people who make a living by fishing. Here’s why that’s not true.

Just as the teeth of the trawlers churn the seabed, Ocean with David Attenborough must stir meaningful action. “If we save the sea, we save our world” as Attenborough says at the end of the film.

And so all eyes are on governments to act together to protect the ocean. As individuals, he urges us, we all have an active role to play. And so, we too can think about the food we eat, and the way we shop.

As part of a nature restoration strategy, the UK needs Eurasian lynx. The government needs to act urgently and radically to curb the dramatic decline in biodiversity. The UK is one of the most nature deprived places in the world, with one in six of its species at risk of being lost from Britain. 

2024 was quite the year for us. Here’s what kept us busy.

I led a major audit of global media coverage on ocean protection. Here’s what we learned.

Being at COP28 made the globe feel very small. It is one thing to be tapping out press releases about ocean science from the moderate climes of South East England. It is quite another to be pitching experts to talk about rising sea levels when you have just chatted in the coffee queue with a delegate from the Philippines, swapped notes with a campaigner from Indonesia, taken a group pic for a team from Chile…

At the time it felt like a story like no other: a story which dominated the media for months on end. But now heat domes, wild fires and wayward ocean currents are sharpening our focus on the climate crisis. So it is worth asking what lessons research communicators can learn today from the media’s response to the Covid pandemic.

Putting people at the heart of stories is Comms 101. But why is it? A question from the floor at a conference recently prompted me to think afresh about this question.