Attacks on ships spark renewed concern of environmental disaster as 85 large oil tankers lie trapped in Persian Gulf
"A single oil spill could have devastating consequences for people and ecology in the region, adding to the terrible human toll this illegal war has already taken"
#US #Israel #Iran
When the porpoises have had it up to here with data centres:
Further mischief on offshore wind means further pause on permitting reform. Let’s hope we can go forward without further mischief.
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
When Trump says "we make a lot of money," he's talking about his Big Oil donors.
They spent spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024, and the investment is paying off quite well for them.
Oligarchy in action.
Large swaths of the oceans have lost 10 to 40% of their oxygen, and that loss is expected to accelerate with climate change
Water without adequate oxygen cannot support life, which is catastrophic for marine life and billions humans who depend on fish
www.scientificamerican.com/article/mari...
Friends, this 2024 photo is going viral again.
Captions suggest that it is unequivocally a newborn great white shark, that no one has ever seen a baby great white shark before, and that finding one is a holy grail for marine biology.
None of these things are accurate, as I wrote at the time: 🧪🦑🌍🦈
The chart below shows wild mammals as 5% of the total biomass of mammals on Earth - but most of these are marine mammals, like whales. Of the terrestrian mammals, only 2% of them are wild (or less: we're losing them fast and the data is a few years old...)
Photo of Rachel Carson.
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 12 - Conservationist and writer Rachel Carson helped spark the #environmental movement with her book 'Silent' Spring', about the dangers of pesticides.
Where in the World...did she write 'Silent Spring'?
Click to find out: www.whereintheworldgame.com?id=214&type=q
#Science
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
The March, 2026, ENSO probabilities forecast was just released by NOAA this morning, and whoa! This has taken a hard turn towards El Nino since the February forecast. Now 60%+ by mid-Summer!
See Fig. 7: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...
Yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein's former account testified, under oath, that the Epstein Estate paid a settlement to one of the women accusing Donald Trump of raping her as a minor, AFTER Epstein had died.
This would end any other President instantly. But the press doesn't care.
🐋 #whale
A sighting of an #albino #bluewhale has been reported near #LoretoBay in #Mexico
Rare Blue Whale with Albinism Spotted in National Park in Unprecedented Milestone share.google/x9N7PaV5x75t...
Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.
Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.
Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.
See the problem here?
Coming up on 30 years since the Dunblane school shooting massacre (13th March 1996) and watching another documentary about it. The families wanted to end legal handgun ownership and we passed those laws. We’ve not had a school shooting since. I ache for all Americans who cannot get this done there.
plastics are a hard problem so successes are welcome. My news to me good news for Mar 11 #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism reasonstobecheerful.world/tubingen-ger...
You could deploy solar faster.
🦈 #shark
More coverage - this time from sciencedaily - of the finding that a breeding population of #whitesharks may exist in the #Mediterranean near $Spain
A “ghost” great white shark just reignited a Mediterranean mystery | ScienceDaily share.google/fnSfie7n8sNz...
Trying to use less plastic?
Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.
“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."
Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"
I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more.
And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share!
www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...
#Bangladesh has more fishermen than in the past, and an increased total catch, but with overfishing, the average catch has been greatly reduced. Many fishermen are now turning to new target species such as #sharks & #rays.
Laws to stop this are poorly enforced
share.google/MofieiUyUoWs...
A Haitian asylum seeker detained by ICE died after being refused timely medical attention for a severe toothache.
At least 40 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office — a two-decade high.
The monstrous cruelty of Trump's police state knows no bounds.
You youngsters speak a totally different language to us older geeks...
And this is why we keep slapping "This Machine Kills Fascists" stickers on our CTDs.
Sun's shining. All the energy you could ever use, just hanging out in the sky.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
Almost forgot to share the squid-shaped-squid. Jeff said maybe Onychoteuthis. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 643 #sepacificseamounts #MarineLife
An adult diamondback terrapin suns itself on a log. A text box at the bottom of the image contains a quote from Rachel Rilee, our oceans policy specialist. It reads "Tens of thousands of terrapins will slowly drown in crab traps this year because Virginia lawmakers chose not to back a sensible solution to this heartbreaking, environmentally devastating problem.”
This morning, a few Democrats in the #Virginia State Senate joined Republicans to vote down a bill that would have required recreational crab pots in certain targeted protection areas in the #ChesapeakeBay watershed to install bycatch reduction devices to prevent terrapins from drowning.
Ok, I take it back. This is, in fact, the best response:
www.businessinsider.com/florsheim-tr...
