New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱

A carnivorous “death ball” sponge is among 30 previously unknown deep-sea species found by scientists in one of the most remote parts of the planet. They also found new armoured & iridescent scale worms, new crustaceans plus rare gastropods & bivalves. 🧪🐚🦀🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨 ⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy. ❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck. Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25

Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health. Dr @erinashe.bsky.social led a study in @aibsbiology.bsky.social's BioScience, exploring pathogens in Pacific white-sided dolphins 🧵 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

“Just a year after four dams were removed, fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin in Southern Oregon…” Salmon are unbelievably resilient when given a chance. @opb.org

Sound on! Hector's Dolphins like you've never heard them before www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... 🦑🧪🌍

Otterly adorable! 🎃 Rescued sea otters, Libby, Moea, and Clara enjoyed seafood pops and krill-flavored candy corn in piles of ice at #ZooBoo today (ice is a crunchy favorite enrichment for them). The fun continues tomorrow! 🦦 📹: Keeper Kristyn

"Global investment in green technology for the first three quarters of the year has already surpassed all of 2024. The fortunes of the sector have been in decline for three years, but explosive energy demand fueled by data centers has sparked a reversal."

New short communication: First Common Murre seen off the Azores, by Luis Barcelos et al. #Auktober #seabirds #ornithology #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

Very cool! The BBC is featuring the new SHIFT website that we built with @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social to advance tailored, science-based personal climate actions. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026! Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter! #marinescience #conservation #conference

Wild Reads: 10 New Books that Celebrate Wildlife and Their Environments • The Revelator

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

"The climate needs a politics of the possible" "To win voters’ consent, policymakers must offer pragmatism and hope," says @theeconomiser.bsky.social www.economist.com/interactive/... cc @katharinehayhoe.com

« L’océan 🌊 maintient des conditions propices à la vie sur notre planète, explique @jpgattuso.bsky.social océanographe au Laboratoire d’océanographie de Villefranche. Sans lui, la température moyenne sur Terre serait beaucoup + élevée. » @imev-mer.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @melvaksea.bsky.social

“We feel like we have an obligation to both, get prepared, get on it, reduce our emissions, and help our people weather this.” from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” - Joanna Macy (1929-2025)

Last year, the final of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River were removed in the largest project of its kind in US history. The river that straddles the California-Oregon border has since been reborn.

NPR's internship program is coming back! Apply by June 30 to work with the Science Desk and Short Wave this fall/winter. I was an intern in 2019, and it set me on the path towards coming back for a staff job! job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

TIME's annual Ocean issue is now live! Our cover story visits fishing communities in the Philippines confronted with a changing relationship with the sea. Read here: time.com/7289533/phil...

On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of #plastic, they crunch wapo.st/4km2PrB (🎁 article from @washingtonpost.com)

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Professor and Director to join us in advancing the mission of CMSI. View the position description and apply by the next review date, April 27th, here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044

“The algae, called Pseudo-nitzschia, produces the harmful domoic acid toxin when it blooms. When consumed via forage fish such as sardines, domoic acid can cause larger marine animals to become “dangerous and unpredictable,”

Many thanks to @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social BC/WA chapter for this lovely recognition for our work with @uniofstandrews.bsky.social & GenusWave to test nonlethal ways to reduce seal predation on endangered salmon at human-built bottlenecks! More salmon for orcas and humans alike!

Statement from @marinesanctuary.bsky.social: "With zero public input, and no report to Congress or Governors, America has lost dedicated scientists, enforcement officers, and environmental specialists who safeguard our most iconic waters in over a dozen states." marinesanctuary.org/news/marine-...

Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪

‘Super exciting’ visit of dolphins to East River offers hope of cleaner New York

Canada’s new Rural Community Immigration Pilot offers permanent residence to skilled workers who want to work and settle in rural and more remote communities. 14 pilot communities will approve certain employers to hire for jobs that they can’t fill with local workers. More info here:

Hearts for everyone! Love is in the air from the Heart Nebula! 💗 #ValentinesDay Image Credit: Adam Jensen

Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation, an amazing new free online textbook, led by conservation legend Larry Crowder, is out now! Check it out here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

"New study finds that people listen to—and follow—expert climate advice" www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/02/new-... Hooray @katharinehayhoe.com @leahstokes.bsky.social

What to tell your trainees, your students, your teams, and yourselves, when you feel the doubt and darkness encroaching: your work is under attack *because it matters* Keep at it.

Celebrate #ReverseTheRedDay with us to support conservation efforts reversing biodiversity loss Events today by @reversethered.bsky.social 11:00 GMT🔗 www.reversethered.org/events/rever... 14:00 GMT🔗 www.reversethered.org/events/rever...

Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/s...

Free Read Samantha Power: “I Ran U.S.A.I.D. Killing It Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Climate work continues in Washington state! Join us at ClimeTime’s 3rd Annual Cliamte Education Summit. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The @azti.bsky.social summer school 2025 is open for registration. This year: human citizens and artificial citizens, what can they contribute to conserving #marine #biodiversity? Join @drangelborja.bsky.social and EU #Horizon project colleagues in sunny San Sebastian. www.azti.es/en/event/sum...

Here’s today’s #OceanOptimism apnews.com/article/lobs...

Potentially seminar will also cover our €4.1 million grant to @fondoaccion.bsky.social 🇨🇴, where @blueactionfund.org cooperates with GFCR & @orraanews.bsky.social to establish larger parametric insurance scheme.

TODAY at 1PM E / 10AM P! Join @revyearwood.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, and many more as we team up with the Music Sustainability Alliance to address the link between the wildfires and climate change, and explore what lies ahead. Free watch link here: teamhappily.zoom.us/j/85635428469

The National Science Foundation says that it is complying with Friday's court order and will resuming funding to grants and projects. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

L.A. fires wreaked havoc on the land. Scientists are racing to learn what they’ve done to the sea

Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job Opportunity 🌊 National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Program is hiring a Coral Reef Ecologist 🪸 tinyurl.com/ytfzjtvd

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

Independent, non-governmental sources of science and data are going to be more important than ever. Support them.

NEW JOB: How does pelagic-reef connectivity vary across atolls and oceans? 2 year post-doc position based at research-intensive @lancasteruni.bsky.social, and part of the fantastic @lec-reefs.bsky.social team Apply: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #AcademicSky 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍

This is some welcome news www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/maca...