Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Will the world overshoot its climate targets? – Expert Q&A

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UN treaty to protect marine diversity in the #HighSeas was struck this week after Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the agreement, clinching the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law www.france24.com/en/live-news...

New research overrides the Government’s insistence that nursing shifts are safely staffed, suggesting thousands more hires are needed. My analysis: newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/18/s...

Read more about this research at @aunz.theconversation.com → theconversation.com/lakeshore-sh... #complexsystems @troybaisden.bsky.social

Timeline cleanse for a little naturing - we live next door to a huge kowhai tree and this is one of a dozen kākā that come to feast on its blooms each morning and evening

This is a fascinating development. Lawyers: Does DOE dissolving the climate report research group and declaring the lawsuits "moot" imply that the report cannot be used as the basis for any future lawmaking? Is there also responsbility for damage from misinformation? www.law.cornell.edu/wex/moot

🪩 Stratospheric aerosol injections 🌊 Sea curtains 🧊 Ice management 💦 Water removal 🦠 Ocean fertilisation None of these geoengineering fixes will mitigate effects of global warming in polar regions - instead they'll likely have serious unintended consequences theconversation.com/high-tech-pl...

More cuts to the Marsden Fund of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. This takes it down to $10/capita in real terms when it was over $16 for most of this century. Australia's equivalent, the ARC, is NZ$42/capita, as is the US NSF (despite ongoing attempts to gut the latter). www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Here's something to develop a daily naturing habit - think Wordle but for birds. Birdle 🇳🇿 07/09/2025 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz

Officials warn workplace safety reforms risk repeating the failures identified after the Pike River disaster. WorkSafe cautioned changes could create loopholes where unsafe companies escape prosecution. 70 people were killed at work last year. Full story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

It's outstanding that this clear presentation is part of Germany's public broadcaster's daily weather forecast. Long may the stamina last not only of @terliwetter.bsky.social (thank you!) but also those in charge of the @heuteshow.de that enable him to provide this essential public service.

It's a rare feat to make something terrifying and sad somehow also really beautiful to read, and I think @roycerk2.bsky.social managed it here in his latest for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/algal-b...

The vast ice of Antarctica has seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are nigh – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents. 👉 theconversation.com/from-se...

My latest for @eos.org, about slickenlines, the scratch marks earthquakes leave behind, and the pulse-like nature of propagation

Overnight, Russia launched a biomedical satellite carrying mice to test the effects of microgravity - it's the latest mission to use animals in space (going back to 1957 when Laika launched with Sputnik 2), but we still don't have rules to protect them from harm theconversation.com/weve-been-se...

Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪 Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵

BREAKING: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction today blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat over to a private mining company while three lawsuits challenging the land exchange proceed. More details: biodiv.us/3V8uKAO

Some 8,000 pages were removed from US federal websites within a few days of Jan 31, 2025. Though many were soon restored following substantial outcry and some court orders, it’s still unclear how the restored webpages and datasets may have been changed. theconversation.com/data-that-ta...

Great to see so many of our @aunz.theconversation.com authors on this list!

This image says it all - delegates failed to agree on an international treaty to stop plastic pollution, including in the ocean

A veteran diplomat warns the Trump-Putin summit is unlikely to produce results (and is hauntingly similar to the history of the Hitler-Chamberlain meeting in Munich): buff.ly/DDeSMMB #polisky

Welcome to the world Rēkohu shelduck. You can check out our #openaccess paper about this new extinct duck from the Chatham Islands here (academic.oup.com/.../article/...) & make sure to read our @aunz.theconversation.com piece theconversation.com/the-discover... 1/4

This is a hard but important read - Indigenous scholar and writer Rosalyn LaPier recounts how forced starvation was used historically to force Indigenous people off their land - as it is being used now as a weapon of war theconversation.com/the-dark-his...

In the final hours of #PlasticsTreaty talks, the Chair has dropped a text. "This isn’t a treaty to end plastic pollution — it’s a gift to polluters." It's completely unacceptable. So, what’s next? @melissabluesky.bsky.social‬ explains.

In western Nepal’s Bardiya district, farmers from marginalized communities are replacing traditional crops with turmeric — a plant elephants avoid — dramatically reducing human-elephant conflict.

We have to be purposeful about ending the use of fossil fuels because they’re not going to end themselves anytime soon. While wind and solar are cheaper, they are not as profitable. Therein lies the problem.

"It’s undoubtedly the most widespread coral bleaching event yet recorded in WA. For the worst-hit reefs, it’s hard to see how recovery to their previous glory is possible, given temperatures will continue to rise in the coming years." by James Gilmour theconversation.com/safe-no-more...

Please do share this story so people don’t fall for this shitty scam

🦑 Squid squad alert! This may be a type of whiplash squid from the family Mastigoteuthidae. Filmed during the #MarDelPlataCanyon in Argentina, where an international science team is exploring the diversity & distribution of seafloor communities in one of the country’s largest deep-sea canyons. 🇦🇷 .

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

Carney is planing 15% budget cuts across most of government. @supportourscience.bsky.social and @u15ca.bsky.social worry what that would do to a research system that is already lagging behind other countries. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NZ's new Institute for Advanced Technology will be paid for through reallocated science funding, including long-term cuts to fundamental research (Marsden Fund) and health research - more musical chairs says @troybaisden.bsky.social www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/08/06/f...

And here's @jgmussoi.bsky.social's @aunz.theconversation.com story theconversation.com/sleepy-birds...

Much of the $231m to be put towards a new research institute on advanced tech comes from further cuts to other parts of the science sector, including the already shrunk Marsden www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

The Olympics dropped SRY sex testing in 2000, but a quarter century later, World Athletics brings it back as a 'reliable proxy for determining biological sex'. Biological sex is much more complex than one gene, writes Andrew Sinclair who discovered SRY theconversation.com/world-athlet...

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

Researchers critical of Colossal Biosciences’ "de-extinction" plans are being targeted by online articles and social posts (not here - on the other site) trying to discredit them www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees. Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...

This is quite lovely - Michael Hill doing Two Sketches with @xtotl.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RItD...

Five years after the taxpayers got left with a $300m clean-up bill for an oil field, Shane Jones is weakening the rules put in place to prevent a repeat. newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/30/g...

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.