Nature restoration works!

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

End destructive bottom trawling inside Australian Marine Parks www.marineconservation.org.au/actions/end-...

Deep-Sea Sea Pigs: Scotoplanes, the Echinoderms that Walk the Abyss at 5,000m Depth

Understanding deep-sea mining’s environmental impacts requires evidence, not slogans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Meanwhile the California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

@mucofloris.bsky.social on the challenge of assessing biodiversity in the deep sea: we need common names for biodiversity. Different cruise will, for example, dub different unidentified sponges as "species A".

Midwater worms >> terrestrial worms. 😍 #tomopteris 🦑🧪🌊 #DesigningtheFuture3 @mbarinews.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

Sussex seabed shows recovery five years after trawling ban. Five years after bottom trawling was banned across more than 300 km² of seabed off southern England, early signs of ecosystem recovery are emerging. Mussel beds are re-establishing, fish populations are increasing, and conditions are […]

Spain is crushing it ⚡🇪🇸 Solar is delivering the equivalent of 27 nuclear plants during the day. Pumped hydro stores ~3 nuclear plants worth. Batteries already stepping in. This isn’t a generation problem anymore. It’s storage scale. Energy scarcity → energy timing. #BESS #Solar

En ny vetenskaplig studie visar att förnybar elproduktion är 53% billigare än kärnkraft när de totala systemkostnaderna vägs in. Kan någon berätta det för Ebba Busch?

Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid. As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.

My statement is available in English now: app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/fd57e9...

oooo! Stalked crinoid meadow from 9300 m in Japan Trench www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1...

Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…

”Normalitetsbias är en kognitiv snedvridning som gör att vi underskattar risken för att framtiden plötsligt kan bli något helt annat än vi tänkt oss och när den stora krisen är ett faktum står vi oförberedda, både mentalt och praktiskt.” www.dn.se/kultur/david...

It’s important to understand that today it is nuclear, coal and fossil gas power that are the ”alternative energy sources”. Countries like Sweden and the US that are actively stopping renewable electricity production are extreme outliers in a world rapidly going renewable!

Äter frukost i restaurangvagnen på ett schweiziskt tåg. Kaffe i porslinskopp. Varm croissant i liten metallkorg. Smör. Honung. Jordgubbsmarmelad. Riktiga bestick. Struken duk. Quadratisch, praktisch, gut! Und miljövänlisch! Snälla SJ studera denna högre nivå av civilisation. 🥐 ☕️ 🍯 🧈 🍓

The Netherlands just launched a platform in the middle of the North Sea that converts wind electricity into green hydrogen fuel without the electricity ever touching land. The NortH2 offshore hydrogen platform sits 200 kilometers off the Dutch coast, directly connected by underwater power cables.

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

Bombkriget mot Iran handlar om att stärka den fossila fascismen. De som betalar priset är de civila i regionen och de fattigaste och mest utsatta. De som tjänar är oljespekulanter, vapenhandlare och Trumps krets av kleptokrater www.dn.se/kultur/bjorn...

SVT:s rapportering om klimatkrisen minskade från redan otroligt låga 2% av sändningstiden 2024 till försumbara 0,99% 2025. Medierna bestämmer med sina val vad som är viktigt, vad vi blir rädda för och därmed vilka frågor som hamnar högt inför det kommande valet www.journalisten.se/debatt/svts-...

Det största hotet mot demokratin är högerns förakt för vetenskap och expertis. www.dn.se/ledare/max-h...

Some excellent news. Revolutionary Submarine Mysteriously Disappears Without a Trace – Scientists Are Now Preparing for a Bold Return share.google/KEwLHoDdEihD...

Because the #marinelife tag needs a lot more invertebrates have this deep-sea polychate! Photo from nautiluslive.org/blog/2020/12...

"In response, the Cuban government is accelerating a shift toward renewable energy, betting on large-scale solar and wind projects backed by financing and technology from China." Trump is vigorously pushing the entire world into China's arms.

Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable. Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours. Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment

”We found that primary forests store ~72% more C than managed secondary forests in vegetation, deadwood, soils, and harvested wood products combined (land C storage)”: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

A pop. lit. piece from the BBC discussing whalefall ecology. Lots of our favorite critters get a mention: hagfish, scale worms, snot flower worms, amphipods We’re constantly surprised': The strange deep-sea creatures that eat whales share.google/amJpU2HEyDqs...

Jag har lyssnat på avsnittet och har några tankar. 🧵

Drygt 100 miljoner fat om dagen - världens rekordberoende av olja. www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...

Another reminder of the importance of public funding of science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... From @naomioreskes.bsky.social (Apologies if it's paywalled. I don't know how to get around that.)

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

Klimatförändringens påverkan på den biologiska mångfalden är enorm. Nu har av allt att döma den invasiva blåkrabban nått Öresund. Följderna kan bli katastrofala. www.tv2kosmopol.dk/koebenhavn/k...

The fishing of krill is putting marine wildlife at risk.❗ To protect this fragile ecosystem, the fishery needs to be paused until stronger management and safeguards are in place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

När el- och bränslepriserna steg efter Rysslands invasion av Ukraina 2021 var det miljöpolitiken som var orsaken enligt Busch och kompani. Nu när samma sak händer pga USAs attack på Iran är det tydligen ”en orolig omvärld”… Byggde hela krossandet av Sveriges klimatarbete på en lögn? omni.se/a/ln3agy

Krigets virus sprider sig och en svensk statsminister svävar på målet www.dalademokraten.se/2026-03-03/k...

Colleague Dr. Jon Copley answers some questions about #deepsea biology! news.sky.com/story/marine...

"As whale populations continue to struggle, a decline in whale falls is reported to have reduced the biodiversity of deep sea ecosystems – and has likely contributed to the extinction of species before we ever knew of their existence." @kathla.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Huge since true. "It costs just $33/MWh to transform daytime solar into dispatchable solar" And no, that doesn't yet account for that storied Dunkelflaute. Then again, the typical gas LCOE doesn't account for Putin's whims or other geopolitical vagaries.