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Sea Smart Land: A landscape approach to improving water quality

23 April 2019

Preserving good water quality is vital to our coastal environments. Every year poor water diagnosis causes hundreds of beach closures...

The European Union undertakes the microplastics issue

18 April 2019

Microplastics are making the headlines: microplastics in water, in beer, in mussels, in salt or in the air we breathe....

Offshore drilling: a worrying development

16 April 2019

Nowadays, it represents a third of the global hydrocarbon production, despite still being the most risky way to exploit in...

2019 European Elections: 7000 citizens demand measures for ocean health

8 April 2019

Nearly 7,000 citizens participated in Surfrider Europe’s public consultation “Voice for the Ocean” from June 2018 to Januray 2019, which...

Biomedia on the beaches an eye on water treatment plants

5 April 2019

Since the beginning of the 2000’s, thousands of biomedia have been found on Europe’s coastlines. To fight against this new...

Ocean Initiatives, a success in spite of us

28 March 2019

Without us, marine litter would not exist. But without you, it would remain a plague to our beaches and oceans....

Shipping containers at sea, an unacknowledged drift

25 March 2019

Since their invention in 1956, container vessels have become a symbol of globalization and commercial trade. Maritime transportation currently facilitates...

Grande America : 20 years after the Erika, history repeats itself!

15 March 2019

Surfrider Europe will lodge a formal complaint against the owner and captain of the Italian container ship, Grande America.This legal pursuit...

Save the Great Australian Bight from big oil

13 March 2019

Norwegian fossil fuel company Equinor has announced plans to drill for oil in the Australian Bight. The proposed excavation would...

Through the eyes of the Surfrider Coastal Defenders

5 March 2019

The coastline is under great pressure due to human activity in the form of chemical or bacteriological pollution, urban and...

Ocean Initiatives, take time for the ocean

19 February 2019

This March, Surfrider Foundation Europe will launch the 25th Edition of Ocean Initiatives, our flagship program that tackles marine litter...

Surfrider Coastal Defenders, all stakeholders in ocean and coastal conservation

11 February 2019

For over 30 years, Surfrider Foundation Europe has been taking action for ocean and coastal conservation. The NGO’s flagship program...