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Protecting our oceans for a peaceful and sustainable future. #30x30 🏊♂️🦈🌍
Polar bears have been telling us about the impacts of a warming planet for years. From heatwaves across Europe and Asia to rising temperatures across the globe, those impacts are now becoming impossible for the rest of us to ignore. #PolarBears #ClimateChange @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @unep.org
Turritopsis dohrnii, can revert from its adult medusa stage back to a polyp and begin its life cycle again. The more we study the ocean, the more we discover how much we still have to learn. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #OceanProtection #30x30 #Jellyfish @tamu.bsky.social
Climate coverage is shrinking, even as the climate crisis intensifies. Meanwhile, there have been 45 climate policy reversals across 15 jurisdictions in just one year. Read more from @wedonthavetime.wsocial.eu & @ingmar.wsocial.eu app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/c374dd... 📊 We Don't Have Time
Plastic doesn't disappear. It fragments. Over time, larger pieces break down into microplastics that now contaminate every ocean on Earth.| Less plastic waste today means less pollution for generations to come. #BeatPlasticPollution #PlasticFreeJuly @undp.org @unep.org @plasticpollutes.bsky.social
We often think of microplastics as a pollution problem, but they may also affect the climate. A new scientific review highlights how microplastics in the Arctic may reduce the reflectivity of snow and ice. newswise.com/articles/arc... 📷 #Greenland: Lewis Pugh Foundation #Microplastics #Arctic
Today is Marine Day, 海の日, in Japan. From the icy waters of Hokkaido to the coral reefs of Okinawa, Japan spans eight marine ecoregions. From ice to coral, the ocean shapes Japan’s wildlife, culture and way of life. Today is a reminder to celebrate it, and protect it. #uminohi #shonankaigan #ocean
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is meeting this week to discuss the international seabed - it covers around 54% of the world's oceans, yet less than a third of it has been mapped in detail. Learn more: news.un.org/en/story/202... #DeepSea #DeepSeaMining #Ocean @unep.org
Over half of mollusc species living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents are threatened with extinction. 🔗 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... 📷: Nakamura et al. (2012), PLOS ONE / CC BY 2.5 @sscmarine.bsky.social @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @unep.org #molluscs #deepsea #deepseamining
Pacific gray whales are in crisis. Climate change is transforming their Arctic feeding grounds, while strandings are rising sharply. At least 145 have been reported this year. peer.org/gray-whales-... 📷 H Klostermann / Ocean Image Bank 📍Baja California @peer.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
🐧 Arctic or Antarctic? 🐻❄️ Think you know which is which? Take our Polar Quiz and see how many you get right. #PolarQuiz #Arctic #Antarctica #PolarWildlife #OceanWildlife #WildlifeQuiz @antarcticasouth.bsky.social
Despite the name, Porcelain Crabs aren't true crabs. They're close relatives of squat lobsters that evolved a remarkably crab-like body shape. 📷 David P. Robinson / Ocean Image Bank #OceanLife #MarineLife #PorcelainCrab #OceanConservation @unbiodiversity.bsky.social
New research reveals how forces deep within the Earth helped shape East Antarctica. It’s an area we know well. In 2020, Lewis swam in one of its ice rivers, which flowed beneath the ice itself. www.reuters.com/business/env... #EastAntarctica @science.org @antarcticasouth.bsky.social
New data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service and Copernicus Marine Service shows that global average sea surface temperatures reached a record high for June. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-m... 📊 @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & @copernicusmarine.bsky.social #oceanscience @esa.int
Sperm whales have accents. Scientists studying sperm whales in the Mediterranean have discovered distinct regional dialects. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 📷 Image: Amanda Cotton/Ocean Image Bank (photographed in Caribbean) @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #whales #oceanscience
The clean energy transition is no longer a future aspiration. It is already underway, but it now needs to be scaled rapidly. Read more: news.un.org/en/story/202... 📷 Lewis Pugh Foundation @unep.org @unnews.bsky.social #NoIceNoLife #CleanEnergy @iccinet.org
"Sharks on land and sea are one." Last night at the World Cup, Cabo Verde held Spain to a historic draw. A beautiful film from @faunaflora.bsky.social celebrating the link between Cabo Verde's Blue Sharks and the communities working to protect sharks. Parabéns, Tubarões Azuis! 🇨🇻 🎥 Fauna & Flora
One ocean. From coral reefs to polar ice, from kelp forests to the open sea, the ocean connects us all. On World Oceans Day, we celebrate the beauty, diversity and wonder of the ocean. #worldoceansday @unep.org @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @thegef.bsky.social 🎥 Lewis Pugh Foundation
The signals are becoming harder to ignore. Record ocean temperatures. Melting ice. Rising seas. More extreme weather. What happens in the polar regions doesn't stay there. The systems that regulate our climate connect us all. #WorldEnvironmentDay #NowForClimate @unep.org
Scientists have identified Tylosaurus rex, a giant marine predator that lived 80 million years ago, from fossils already sitting in museum collections. 👉 digitallibrary.amnh.org/items/dbbf9d... @amnh.org #oceanscience 📷 Courtesy of Alderon Games - Path of Titans via AMNH
Massive congratulations to our Ocean Hero, Helen Walne. Helen's photography in False Bay of the Great African Seaforest is featured on the cover of TIME's Ocean Issue. Congratulations Helen! time.com/article/2026... @time.com @cityofcapetown.bsky.social @southafricatravel.bsky.social #kelp
The ocean is connected to everything upstream. Forests, watersheds, rivers and oceans are part of the same living system. Pressure placed on one eventually affects the others. #Biodiversity #30x30 #Ocean @unep.org @thegef.bsky.social
Orcas, humpback whales and blue whales all experience the ocean through very different acoustic worlds. #BiodiversityDay #Whales @unbiodiversity.bsky.social 📷 Lars von Ritter Zahony, Noemi Merz / Ocean Image Bank. Blaque X. 🔊 NOAA
Earlier this year, a rediscovered 1949 recording of humpback whale song offered a reminder of how much louder the modern ocean has become. www.whoi.edu/press-room/n... 📸 Toby Matthews / Ocean Image Bank @whoi.edu @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #whales #whalesong
This fairy basslet is one small example of the extraordinary colour and diversity found beneath the ocean’s surface. The ocean is far more vibrant, complex and alive than most people realise. 📷 Beth Watson / Ocean Image Bank #OceanStateOfMind #biodiversity @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @whoi.edu
Ocean systems shape life on land. Parts of the Pacific Ocean reached record surface temperatures in April. This matters globally. When oceans warm, the consequences do not stay at sea. #ElNiño @esaclimate.bsky.social @copernicusmarine.bsky.social Graphic: Copernicus Climate Change Service
The Polar Oceans may feel remote. Their influence isn’t. New Arctic and Antarctic imagery from The Ocean Agency, now freely available through the Ocean Image Bank: oceanimagebank.theoceanagency.org/polar-ocean-... Worth checking out #WorthProtecting. #Antarctica2030 @whoi.edu 📸 Ocean Agency
Happy Friday! Chinstrap Penguins. Named for the strap-like line under their chin. Small detail. Life here isn’t always that simple. #WorthProtecting @antarcticasouth.bsky.social #antarctica2030 #penguins #30x30 📽️ LPF
Most of the ocean remains invisible to us. Vast parts of it are still not well understood, which makes them easy to treat as empty and available. Understanding takes time. Exploitation doesn’t wait. #Ocean #DeepSea #Biodiversity #OceanProtection #DeepSeaMining 📷 Emma Li
King Penguins of South Georgia all start like this. Sailors used to call them “oakum boys”. Brown, fluffy, useless in the water. Then everything changes. Happy Penguin Day!! 🐧 #PenguinDay #Antarctica2030 #southernocean #antarctica #penguins 🎥 The Lewis Pugh Foundation Eaktas06
