Sharks are the architects of a healthy ocean. ✨🦈✨ @brianskerry.bsky.social, a world-renowned underwater photographer and filmmaker, reminds us that when apex predators vanish, the entire marine ecosystem can collapse. At #WHOI, we study how the changing ocean impacts their odds of survival.

It's Friday - So, I thought I would share my photo of a Happy Great White Shark!

Curious Humpback Whale calf, spyhopping to look at me!

The U.S. Constitution was built on a simple but powerful idea: No one person should have unchecked power. Today, that principle is under attack. 🧵👇

President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

85 years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land” It remains one of the greatest protest songs ever written, and the lyrics penned for inclusion and equality.

Celebrating beautiful Norway today! Orca swim in Norwegian Arctic fiords days before the Polar Night

Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Misinformation campaigns have gotten a lot of mileage out of false claims that offshore wind kill whales. Well, Trump's NOAA layoffs included dozens of scientists working to ensure wind and whales can coexist. @fieseler.bsky.social has the scoop: #energysky www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Narwhal family - Canadian Arctic Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'

Next: An executive order declaring gravity doesn't exist. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

As expected: BP will be giving up on greenwashing and misleading targets and instead be honest about its long-term, long-held strategy to expand the sale and use of fossil fuels

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

Meanwhile, in the world of #whales - Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded ~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species 🐳🌍🦑

Mako Shark

Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science | grist.org/science/trum...

This climate ad played during the Super Bowl: youtu.be/GYwPLhjAZtE?...

‘BACK TO PLASTIC’: Trump Vows to Keep the Government on Plastic Straws www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/c...

Global Temperatures Shattered Records in January www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/c...

NY Times - "The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/c...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/b...

AP - Earth is moving closer to destruction - citing threats that include climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons, instability in the Middle East, the threat of pandemics and incorporation of artificial intelligence in military operations." apnews.com/article/doom...

BREAKING: Acting @EPA Administrator James Payne has fired the agency's science advisors. They will be replaced in order to, he says, "ensure that the agency receives scientific advice consistent with its legal obligations to advance our core mission," whatever that means.

Last year was Maine’s hottest on record. It was Earth’s hottest year on record, too, and the first time in recorded history that the annual average exceeded the climate threshold established in the 2015 world climate treaty.

Bottom trawling, dragging a heavy net across the seafloor, has been compared to burning down a forest to catch rabbits. Sweden starting to ban this in sensitive habitats is my #EarthOptimism #OceanOptimism for today. 🦑🧪🌎🐠 (I’m not anti-trawl but there are some places we shouldn’t do it)

Aspen, Colorado Friday January 17th, 7:30pm - I will be at the Wheeler Opera House in presenting my lecture OCEAN SOUL I’ll share photos and videos from decades of work as a photojournalist and filmmaker exploring our Ocean Planet Tickets & Info Here: wheeleroperahouse.com/event/change...

Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

A pteropod, about the size of an M&M, flies underwater, beneath pack ice in Japan's sea of Okhotsk

I am honored to be a part of the 2024 @Vital.Impacts Annual Print Sale. For a limited time, prints of my photograph of a baby Sperm Whale – Hope – are now available. Explore all of the powerful works by photographers in the initiative & learn where proceeds are donated at bit.ly/vitalprints

The ocean is our planet's biggest carbon dioxide sink - but all that CO2 makes the surface water more acidic. And it turns out ocean acidification is rapidly sinking deeper, down to roughly 5000 feet in some places 🧪 by @jamesdinneen.bsky.social

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and NOAA announced $139 million in new grants to support nature-based solutions for 94 coastal resilience projects across 31 US states and territories. With matching contributions, conservation impact = $280 million. www.nfwf.org/media-center...

Humpback Whale Mom & Calf - South Pacific

On a remote reef in the central, South Pacific ...

“That we’re seeing a persistent decline in kelp forests across the Gulf of Maine? That’s not a warning bell. That’s a giant waving red flag on fire that warming is altering our oceans here in New England.” www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/12/s...

First post on Bluesky - November is Manatee Awareness Month!