Oceanwire
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Curating the knowledge, news and sheer wonder of our planet's remarkable ocean “You have to love it before you're moved to save it.” ~Sylvia Earle
#mangroves #naturalsolutions Mangroves absorb storm surge: flexible, dense, deeply rooted. Studies after the 2004 tsunami found far lower mortality & damage where mangroves were intact. We’ve cleared ~50% since 1950—so what comes next isn’t “natural”; it’s the cost of removing nature's protection
🎉 🪼 First jellyfish museum in the United States opens in Florida gift link: wapo.st/4ijSzT5
In a First, Scientists Observe Creation of New Seafloor ✨️ gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/s...
On June 19, 1865 along the shores of Galveston Bay in Texas, freedom arrived. It was along this coastal waterway that liberation, long delayed, finally flowed into the lives of more than 250,000 enslaved Black Texans ... and to enslaved black people across the USA. #WeAreOne #happyjuneteenth2026
#OceanOptimism There’s a Bit of Good News for Coral Reefs gift link 👇🏽 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...
"The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world... It is the most precious thing we have, and we need to defend it." Happy 100th birthday 🌟 to Sir David Attenborough, whose stories transformed how we view and understand our Earth. 🌍
#WhaleWednesday Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...
#WhaleWednesday Progress! Blue whale calf numbers are up — 13 instead of the usual 9 or 10 — recorded off W Australia's sw coast. Obvious lower-than-normal fat reserves were observed in adult whales, which can affect reproduction. Their diet is mostly krill. MT @DrTOMontgomery ✨
Scientists know the animal’s optic glands are responsible for this behavior. If the glands are removed, the octopuses resume eating and live months longer. But how these glands trigger the animal’s gruesome death has been a mystery. bit.ly/44qQ6xP 📸: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory
. STRIKING: Check out the bold coat of the ribbon seal! 🖤🤍 These Arctic seals spend most of their lives in the icy open ocean, rarely hauling out on ice. Their unique light-colored “ribbons” develop over their first three years, becoming more defined with each annual molt. RT @oceana
#WhaleWednesday Beluga whales still held in captivity at the closed Arctic Cove exhibit, Marineland, Canada The 30 captive belugas have nothing to do but wait as their future hangs in the balance. The park’s owners threaten to euthanise them unless the fed govt covers their costs 📸 Daphne Lemelin
#WhaleWednesday Welp. Will we talk with whales someday? 🤔 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateHeroes #StandUpFightBack Great news! The USA’s pre-eminent online hub for critical climate info, Climate.gov, shut down by the extremist US gov’t HAS BEEN REVIVED as climate.us … by volunteers with an expanded mission 💪🏽 🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
. At this really critical crossroads in time, we need to use the knowledge we have and to come together. Everybody is, without exception, vulnerable to the state of the planet, the habitability of Earth. RT @SylviaEarle ✨ 📸 @KipEvansPhoto
#EndPlasticPollution #EndFossilFuels 🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨 Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not Gift link - please share widely! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
#RemarkableOceanPlanet Scientists discover A Whole New Type of Ecosystem 30,000 feet deep In the Pacific Ocean, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
#USAislosing Thankfully countries are stepping up to face the #climateemergency after the extremist Republican govt abdicated US leadership “As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China & Europe Pledge to Go Green Together" gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
#ClimateEmergency Fantastic! 🙌🏽 🫶🏽 More than 2,400 @nytimes readers describe climate action and solutions in their communities gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
#WhaleWednesday This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
#alohafriday 🙃 Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
#OurAmazingOcean 😮 The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#alohafriday 5 Tide Pool Creatures to Become When Life Is Too Much orionmagazine.org/article/5-ti...
#MondayOceanMotivation “If we save the sea, we save the planet.” — Sir David Attenborough
#ClimateEmergency ‘Rapid Response System’ Can Tell When Heat Waves Are Fueled By Climate Change studyfinds.org/heat-wave-fu...
"We need to challenge people to look in the mirror & see what each of you, each of us, can do. All of us need water, the fabric of our lives. All of us need a planet that works. & all of us have the power to do something about it.” --SylviaEarle 📸BGroark📍Palmyra Atoll Hope Spot
#alohafriday "With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around." ✨ ~ @SylviaEarle 📸 Jeremy Bishop
. What lurks beneath the surface? One million species live in the sea—but we’ve only discovered about one-third of them. Which ceatures live where the sun doesn't reach? What do they eat? How do we research them? The answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4hIZKQX MT @NOAAFisheries
YES! Great communication from @NOAA's Rebecca Ferro! Her breakdown of NOAA's monetary value to the US: - 1.7 million jobs, $253 billion in sales - $117 billion in value added impacts - 1.1 million commercial jobs - 595 thousand recreational jobs - $154.7 billion commercial sales