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Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

it’s crazy to think about the amount of money Greta Thunberg would have if she embraced corporate sponsorships & greenwashing. instead, she follows her moral compass — even when it makes her a threat to capital. we need more people like Greta.

OCEAN DARKENING ON CNN: PML's Prof Tim Smyth speaking to @cnn.com this morning about his new study with Dr Thomas Davies of @plymuni.bsky.social / @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social that revealed a 21% reduction in sunlight zones vital for life in the sea. More: pml.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

Am I disgusting or a genius? New snack mix of lupini and raisins 🤤

🧪🌊 A lot of research never reaches the majority of people...🧵 Reply with the ONE impactful paper or initiative on oceanography, sustainability, andor biodiversity that shifted how you see the world. What made it so special? (Helping a study on science’s real-world impact-your input matters!)

”Although coral restoration efforts may be able to save tiny pockets of coral reef in a few select areas, the only real solution for coral reefs now is a rapid phase out of fossil fuels”

Commercial fishing is the most destructive activity we undertake in the ocean 🌊. Trump just issued an executive order opening the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. 🤬

When the Trump administration unprotects huge marine parks and allowes commercial fishing in a previous safe zone for dolphins, turtles and other aquatic animals:

Fuck this guy. How to help: Donate $$ to your favorite environmental groups. Don’t spend at Amazon. That’s how I do it anyway. I like sierra club bc they bring lawsuits against his administration for this shit.

Halting clean energy and expressing interest in annexing Greenland and Canada could even be a strategy: with global heating more agricultural land will become available there in the next decades and centuries

🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊 + Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... + #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...

If the trend continues, we're about a week away from global sea-ice extent re-entering "Gobsmacking Bananas" territory. Stay tuned!

Trump regime ends funding of climate research at Princeton, because it "used resources to assess climate change risks, including alleged changes to precipitation patterns and sea level rise".

Vanessa Barragão, Portuguese textile artist known for large-scale hangings inspired by ecosystems like coral reefs, using upcycled waste materials from the textile industry #WomensArt

A jury in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.

In the coming months, you're about to hear more uninformed takes defending the abhorrent 🇨🇦 #HarpSeal hunt. Please know that govt is, once again, prioritizing industry interests over actual #conservation. The ONLY thing ravaging marine life is human activity. Don’t be fooled by industry #propaganda

🌊 Meet 2025 True Blue Fellow Emma Batty and her project, DiveHer! 🌊 Emma’s platform, DiveHer, spotlights Indonesian women in marine conservation, breaking gender barriers through storytelling and community-building. Learn more at bowseat.org! 💙✨ #TrueBlueFellow #DiveHer #WomenInConservation

💙 @noaa.gov 🌊

Repost the Warren video. The tariffs are a distraction to pass this Republican tax cut for the billionaires -- that's why they're cutting all kinds of programs in addition to medicaid, medicare and social security -- so they can pay for this billionaire tax cut: www.youtube.com/shorts/RZ-nl...

Registration is OPEN for #ICMBXII! Join us October 7–9, 2025, in Funchal, Madeira Island, #Portugal for a gathering of experts, researchers, and ocean enthusiasts tackling #marine #bioinvasions! 🔗 Register now: marinebioinvasions.info/register

Join us for the second CASCADE webinar on Friday 4th April! We will be joined by @slpbenbow.bsky.social (Fauna & Flora International) and Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood (@uniofstandrews.bsky.social) to discuss big questions in ocean governance 🌊 Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/fxLXph2feK

🌊 A fantastic start to the TwinPolitics Ocean Seminar Series! Insightful discussions and great exchanges on The EU Digital Twin Ocean with Nicolas Segebarth—thank you to all participants for your engagement! Register now to receive the invite for our next session on April 30: shorturl.at/aal48

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for advancing the degrowth agenda 😬

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

🤔 Are you interested in helping to tackle the nature and climate crisis? We are looking for up to 6 members to join our voluntary Policy Committee in spring 2025 who can help us shape BES's policy work and contribute to the Society's goal of putting ecology at the heart of decision-making.

I'm a little node in this huge endeavour to understand the human on #plant biodiversity across the globe It should have impacts on how we protect biodiversity in #ordinary #landscapes 🌍🧪 Thanks @rucouwes.bsky.social for fieldwork #biodiversity #nature @stockholm-uni.bsky.social rdcu.be/egbBx

🌊🧪 Hi bluesky oceanography /conservation / ecology peops: If I want to gain a good overview of the status quo of our seas and oceans, ocean modeling, ocean ecology, ecosystems services, please advice me the best resources that you cherish!! Books, societes, conferences, blogposts.. and who to follow

🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

Seems like we’re having a “great new people should run for office” chat again. Awesome! However: I have yet to be convinced that “more scientists in office” is a better outcome for science than “people who are talented politicians who understand and value science and listen to their advisors.”

Science is political!

The reality is that the climate is going to sucker-punch Musk & Trump this summer: No matter what they do or don't do on behalf of "government efficiency", it is going to be very small compared to what the planet's mix of fire, hurricanes, drought, heat and floods has in store for them.

FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) offers dozens of free online professional development trainings related to sustainable food systems, including sustainable fisheries. elearning.fao.org/local/search... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

The growth of solar and wind power is inevitable. We can get power without polluting. We also need to change the eway we use land. Trees will grow and store carbon they remove from the air. Please consider eating plant-based protein when you can. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No judgement! Tell your friends 😀 This 'primer' might help: wikimedia.org.uk/2024/05/new-...

Great seminar! Don't judge me harshly pls, but it never occurred to me that I as a researcher SHOULD contribute to Wikipedia and that it's an excellent platform for science communication. Thanks @tatjana-baleta.bsky.social

#Wikipedia shapes AI, & knowledge ecosystems, more than people realise. So why aren’t more academics contributing? Our correspondence in @nature.com argues researchers should take Wikipedia more seriously — and contribute! 🔗https://lnkd.in/dtTxpSqd 🔗Open access: lnkd.in/d4-uUqwv

"Forced to guess, I’d say about 0.33 °C/decade, and at that rate (0.1 °C every 3 years), after we blow past 1.5 °C (this year or next?) it’ll take just 15 more years to reach 2 °C" tamino.wordpress.com/2025/03/23/r...

I don't understand how we halt warming at 2.9 C by 2100 on current pathways if we're going to be at 2C by 2040?

By request, here is a graph showing the 20-year running average for the global mean surface temperature for every year 1960 to 2024. I also have included a quadratic trendline in this graph. The excellent fit of the quadratic is equivalent to accelerating warming. Warming is NOT exponential!

New Open Research Event 🎓📆 - Open Science: Climate Change & the Global Commons [EN] held Online on 25/03/2025. For more info, view the event in our calendar.

It may sound strange, but it makes me feel happy and hopeful, to be part of @climatecasino.net 's doomer starter pack

Here it is, your 'doomer' and 'climate realist' starter pack. If you're interested in joining (please double check you're not already listed), please just leave a comment below requesting to be on the list. We have cookies! go.bsky.app/9ozevcf

Trump Tower Sit-In, Giant Sandwriting, Protests Doubled, and Resisting Authoritarians in Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, United States & Beyond – Nonviolence News - the free weekly nonviolence news summary that inspires and supports people in action. nonviolencenews.org/2025/03/21/t...

I would like to create a "doomer" and "doomer-adjacent" starter pack -- to make it easy to follow all the doomers on bsky. If you self-identify as "doomer" or "doomer-adjacent" or just "doomer-curious" please just respond to this post and ask to be in the starter pack and I'll put you in.

Doomer 🙂 presently working on my post-doom degree 🙃 Mostly a reader of posts, reposter of some