How are the #planetaryparade fans doing tonight? Clear skies here so I took up the challenge! 😎Jupiter (easy - right of the moon) 👍Venus (bright on the W horizon) 👌Saturn (trickier - need to know where to look) 🤷‍♀️Mercury (in hiding) 🙅‍♀️Neptune and Uranus (needs 🔭) 📷 @planetariumbochum.bsky.social

The daily global mean sea surface temperature is beginning to rise once again toward more anomalous value... will be keeping an eye on how this evolves in the coming months as La Niña quickly fades. 🌊 Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

A reminder to those at #OSM26, there's an oceanography feed where your stuff could be seen by thousands, even if you have only one follower. Join, pin, like, post, enjoy.

4️⃣ speakers, 4️⃣ perspectives on the future of marine research infrastructure. @clstorey.bsky.social (SRO for FMRI) will ask: ❓How ambitious should we be with future investments into UK marine research infrastructure? Add your voice to the #OSM Town Hall tomorrow. 🔽 www.linkedin.com/groups/98434...

The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉 More views at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

🌊Are you attending #OSM26 later this month? Come to booth 89 in Hall5 to meet the MASTS team. We'll be showcasing the research of our members, along with some of their kit. We'll be delighted to share more information about MASTS with you. 📍www.masts.ac.uk

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116105185558774838 The Iron law of nuclear power construction: Always over budget, over time and eventually when it gets built under-performing.

Please join us for an #OSM26 townhall hosted by the Challenger Society, TOS + IMECaN on ‘Broadening the Ocean Science Workforce for a More Equitable, Inclusive, and Engaged Community’ including insights from successful actions + the role of scientific societies. Thurs 26 Feb, 12:45-13:45, Forth(SEC)

You are here. We've breached 430 ppm CO2. #climatechange

"All businesses depend on and impact biodiversity and can be agents of positive change." 🌍 📄 IPBES released the Business and #Biodiversity Assessment - Summary for Policymakers. 🔗 Read it here: ipbes.canto.de/pdfviewer/vi...

The records are THOUSANDS everywhere. Impossibile to mention all of them. But among the most important ones in SIBERIA Unbelievable +13.8C at Irkutsk and +12.3C at Inga smashed in pieces their records of winter hottest day. Next days you won't believe to what you see.

My 4th Gresham Lecture starts at 6pm today (free to stream for everyone), and the topic is "The Ground We Stand On". I'll be talking about how the ground is about more than geology & why it matters. Of course, there's *rock* music playing as people come in. Link here: youtube.com/live/YDEAxWT...

If you missed it at the time, this was a great thread! bsky.app/profile/kole...

#1: Please join us for an #OSM26 FMRI Town Hall to discuss the long-term future of marine research infrastructure & help inform its design. 📆 Tue 24 Feb ⌚ 12:45-13:45 📍 Hall 3, Kelp Forest (SEC) Read more 🔽 🔗 fmri.ac.uk/news/fmri-ho... #TownHall #FMRI #MarineAutonomy #ECR @clstorey.bsky.social

The Seep ones last for a really, really long time and when they start falling apart you cut them up and put them in the compost. I'll never go back.

A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"

Middle East and North Africa with 37C, Central Asia with up to 33C, SE Asia 39C, dozens of thousands of records from Morocco to Korea. If you think it can't get worse, you are so wrong,coz next week it will get far worse. Prepare to watch something beyond any imagination

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Since the beginning of 2026 in Italy: 1) Sicily/Calabria experienced the biggest cyclone in 50 years 2) Venice raised the sea wall (Mose) a record of 18 times in last 2 weeks 3) Sardinia is currently in extreme wind alert (100km/h) with more than 800 calls for help to firefighters in 24 hours

Nice article on how pet flea & tick treatments end up in rivers: the-european.eu/story-57030/...

#3: FMRI #OSM26 Town Hall Tue 24 Feb, 12:45-12:45 ▶️ Chair Justin Buck @noc.ac.uk ▶️ Speakers FMRI Senior Responsible Owner @clstorey.bsky.social, FMRI Technical Lead Alvaro Lorenzo Lopez ▶️ Lessons from @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social w/ Prof Heather Bouman @ox.ac.uk 🔗 Read fmri.ac.uk/news/fmri-ho...

Please join us for an #OSM26 townhall hosted by the Challenger Society, TOS + IMECaN on ‘Broadening the Ocean Science Workforce for a More Equitable, Inclusive, and Engaged Community’ including insights from successful actions + the role of scientific societies. Thurs 26 Feb, 12:45-13:45, Forth(SEC)

A new report reveals what’s needed to harness the power of autonomous technologies to understand and safeguard vital coastal environments 👇🏾 🔗 fmri.ac.uk/news/new-rep... Report lead ➡️ Prof Matthew Palmer, NCCA Director @pml.ac.uk Workshop partners ➡️ DEFRA, NPL, @noc.ac.uk, @scottishgov.bsky.social

Level up your ocean research with @noc.ac.uk new marine autonomy course, APART 🤖 Ocean science is being transformed by marine autonomy. APART provides the tools to plan & execute data collection missions with autonomous tech 🌊 📆 Closing date 30 Nov 🔗 noc.ac.uk/education/tr... 📸 Image credit: NOC

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The destabilisation of the Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. In this article, PIK director Johan Rockström and Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson explain what to do about it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat...

Here in the UK January was very cold at the start of the month and then mild and very wet for the rest of it (except in West Scotland). It had average sunshine. Here is a #dataviz of the weather/climate summary for the past year. #globalwarming #climatechange

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

February brings us closer to the return of bumblebees – you might be lucky enough to see some this month 🤞 Bumblebee queens emerge from hibernation in spring. Keep your eyes peeled this month for early emerging Tree and Buff-tailed bumblebees 👀 Have you spotted your first bumblebee of 2026?

Sand is the most valuable commodity on earth, however it faces huge legal and environmental challenges. On 18 March, join us at @geolsoc.bsky.social as we explore the huge global challenge of sand mining. Sign up for the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sands-of-c...

Hey cuties. Everything sucks ass. Get some valentines and send them to your friends. I'm sad. You're sad. They're probably sad. Send them a valentine. It keeps Skype a Scientist running, which hey, is very good too. squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/deep...

Weighing in at over 150 tonnes, Blue Whales are the largest animal to have lived on Earth. But their size hasn’t protected them from human exploitation. In fact, their size made them a valuable source of oil, meat, and blubber. This fat gave us a rich fuel for energy and many other industrial uses.

CO₂ emissions vary across countries & continents, notes @laurencerouil.bsky.social, Director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Europe’s emissions have declined over the past decade, but in our shared global atmosphere, CO₂ concentrations continue to rise. More in #GCH2025 ⬇

This unreal/noexistent Greenlandic winter continues. Most of the territory above freezing again today,some for all 24h with more records broken This month current anomaly shows the area which is currently threatening the world record of the highest monthly positive Temp. anomaly Map by Ryan Maue

We also offer higher temperature heat pumps from our Cosy range that can reach up to 65°C. If you would like to chat more about the heat pumps we have available, just reach out here 👉 octo.ps/bluesky-help, and I'll be in touch. 🐙

A new GEOMAR-study demonstrates that the “age” of water masses in the North Atlantic has been increasing continuously since the 1990s – an indication of a weakening of the Atlantic circulation system. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... 📸 R. Abel, GEOMAR

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required." re: the challenge of food security under nature collapse. from a UK govt national security assessment out today… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

And here is the corresponding global upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) for 2025 and set a new record too... 🔥 Data (shown as anomalies on the graph) and methods from: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

A Government-led public information campaign on EVs has been long overdue to help rebut the tidal wave of misinformation we see across the media. It's great to see the Government launch its new campaign today to highlight the cost of living benefits of switching to an EV. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Bellingcat uses the ATLOS platform to take those archived sources and assign verification and tagging tasks to each item, allowing the creation of verified and searchable archives bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

Warm air is reachin #Greenland 🇬🇱again where the past weeks have been absurdly mild One striking example is Kitsissorsuit-74N,57.8W Current average temperature this month is -3.6C which is about +14C above normal World record of highest monthly anomaly is +14.8C at Vize Island 🇷🇺

A crazy amount of heat has accumulated in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past two months. Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño. Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies. @noaa.gov PMEL data

The total volume of #Arctic sea ice has been at or near record low levels for every day since late October. More graphics of thickness and volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

You should spend some time looking through her website. She hasn’t really updated since she became a full time graphics editor at the NYT, but there’s still plenty of wonderful stuff to discover.

Just a reminder that NOAA releases monthly desktop screens with calendars featuring deep-sea animals and its reminder right now that at least some in government are still wholesome oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/c...

Bossons Glacier 2022 | 2025 One of Europe's most impressive glaciated landscape is collapsing right before our eyes! 🧊🔥 Since 2022, the level of melting has reached unknown territories 📈 📷 Via Meteo Valle d'Aosta

Anyone complaining about solar panels taking up space needed for growing food needs to look hard at this chart. Solar panels are *massively* more efficient than biofuels.

In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...

‘Last year the company made profits of £35million on an income of £65 million — a rate of return of more than 50 per cent. The money goes to Blackbaud, a US-based cloud software company, which bought JustGiving in 2017 for £95 million.’ www.thetimes.com/article/d6d3...