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What Is Aquaculture Co-location?
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Aquaculture co-location shares ocean space between multiple species or industries for efficiency. See how PHAROS tests this in Ireland and Spain. read more
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What Is the Atlantic Action Plan 2.0?
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The Atlantic Action Plan 2.0 is the EU’s strategy for a sustainable blue economy. Learn its four pillars and PHAROS’s role in delivering it. read more
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What Is Open-Schooling?
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Open-schooling connects classrooms to real communities and scientists. Discover how PHAROS uses this model to build ocean literacy in 2026. read more
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What Is a Marine Forest?
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A marine forest is an underwater kelp or algae ecosystem vital for biodiversity and carbon capture. See how PHAROS is rebuilding one off Gran Canaria. read more
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What Is an Oligotrophic Desert?
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An oligotrophic desert is a marine environment so low in nutrients that it cannot sustain much plant or animal life, essentially the ocean equivalent of a desert on land. The term comes from “oligotrophic,” meaning nutrient-poor, and scientists apply it…

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What Is the Blue Economy?
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The blue economy links ocean health to jobs and growth. Discover how the EU and PHAROS are making maritime industries sustainable in 2026. read more
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What Are Living Labs?
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Living Labs bring citizens, scientists and industry together to co-create real-world solutions for ocean restoration across Europe’s Atlantic and Arctic coasts. read more
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What Are Nature-Based Solutions?
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are actions that protect, manage, or restore ecosystems to tackle problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. read more
Happy Easter: How a PHAROS Event Closed a 32-Year-Old Circle
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How does a small act of kindness travel across a war, three decades, and a continent to find its way home? From the “11th District” solidarity of the 1990s to the modern-day PHAROS Living Labs, this is the story of two communicators realising their lives were linked long before they met. Once a girl in Barcelona and a boy in Sarajevo, now meeting on the other side of history to build a greener future together. read more
How Scientists Track Invasive Pink Salmon in Iceland Rivers
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Iceland’s crystal-clear salmon rivers are under threat from invasive pink salmon. PHAROS is using automated environmental DNA sampling to detect them earlier than any angler could. In 2025, the system beat human observers by nearly a month. This is what that looks like in practice. read more
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