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🌊 In 2025, global sea surface temperatures were the 3rd warmest on record, ~0.5°C above the 1981–2010 average.

SSTs dipped slightly from 2023–24 as El Niño shifted toward La Niña, but warm oceans still fueled floods and drought worldwide.

Climate defines salamander adult form - Nature Climate Change Nature Climate Change - Climate defines salamander adult form

I was delighted to see my photo of an Arizona Tiger Salamander was featured in this Nature Climate Change article, but I don't have access to the journal. Does anyone have a copy they could share with me? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

A crucial methane-tracking satellite has died in orbit Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane emissions

MethaneSAT has lost power less than a year and a half after it was launched. Its loss is a major blow to efforts to track and stop emissions of the potent greenhouse gas.🧪🌍🔌💡

Newly discovered frog species from 55 million years ago challenges evolutionary tree The new species is the earliest known Australian tree frog.

Such a cool discovery
theconversation.com/newly-discov...

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

Winners and losers in U.S. marine aquaculture under climate change - IOPscienceSearch Winners and losers in U.S. marine aquaculture under climate change, C R Fong, J DeCesaro, G Clawson, M Frazier, B S Halpern, H E Froehlich

Notably, FW aquaculture appears potentially more vulnerable than marine: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The wolf is rusty coloured, with cream neck and chest. The wolf’s head is stretched upward locking the nectar of the yellow tall conical flowers of red hot poker succulent aloe plants native to Africa - the flowers are a similar shape to pine cones, sitting atop thick long grey-brown stems. The tongue of the wolf is visible. There is yellow pollen all over it, the muzzle of the wolf. The wolf looks soft.

Ethiopian wolves are pollinators!!! The wolves lick the sweet nectar from native red hot poker flowers, and their muzzles get covered in pollen, transferring from one flower to another -the act of pollination 🧵
@wildcru.bsky.social made the discovery. 📸Adrien Lesaffre 🌱
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Oh nice thanks!

Kia ora koutou! Any recommendations for accounts to follow on nature based solutions?

Our ‘frog saunas’ could help save endangered species from the devastating chytrid fungus Our purpose-built “frog saunas” allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide.

This is so cool #frogs theconversation.com/our-frog-sau...

In Bermuda, the Signs of the Season Are Changing | Hakai Magazine Data collected by birdwatchers reveals that the iconic white-tailed tropicbird is arriving earlier and earlier.

White-tailed tropicbirds are a conspicuous and beloved sign of spring in Bermuda, where the species returns each year to nest. But long-term records kept by birdwatchers show that the birds have been returning earlier and earlier.

By Rebecca Heisman.

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NZ PCE had just released a report on marine carbon stores and the risks to those carbon stores. Storymap here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0399...

Atlantic puffin poking it heads above white flowers

Hope I'm not too late... Atlantic puffin in the Farne islands.