Studies examine impact of offshore wind on marine food chain

Michela De Dominicis

Offshore wind is being installed en masse in a bid to mitigate climate change – but at what cost to the creatures beneath the waves?

Using equipment including autonomous subsea robots, Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre is looking at how the micro-organisms at the very bottom of the food chain could be affected.

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