Global ocean governance is taking center stage in Kenya. While international pledges aim to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030, thousands of African grassroots groups are driving the practical conservation work needed to sustain marine ecosystems and local blue economies.

Was listening to sparta analytics this morning and while asia and europe seem to be doing okay on crude atm, the questions really are "how long can the US keep going? how much is escaping the strait? and what the fuck is happening with Chinese demand?"

A fishing vessel's flag shows where it's registered. Not who owns it. Not who profits from its activities. This map that we’re presenting at #OOC11 reveals the scale of foreign-owned fishing vessels across Africa & the accountability gap that comes with it.

Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...

"It's myopic in the extreme to think that no other competitors to Anthropic will develop similar capabilities to Mythos or even that they have not already done so."

Excellent - it’s got to be about conservation AND management

Good thread and window into OSW barriers in action

Please join us @csis.org this morning for our annual Ocean Security and Human Rights Forum - we will touch on ocean governance, #IUUFishing, and human rights at sea with a great line up of speakers - cohosted by myself and @andrewbfriedman.bsky.social www.csis.org/events/ocean...

Large-Scale Carbon Removal Will Create Public Health, Economic, and Climate Trade-Offs | Environmental Science & Technology new paper led by #UVA Engineering graduate student Parisa Javadi @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @uvaresearch.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This is a great thread, excellent post, and critical quote: “Our ability to be governed by reason rather than mobs is on the line.”

Another devastating loss of marine science capacity

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“Project 2029” says that we are unable to define our own vision. It’s reactive and doesn’t distinguish itself from its namesake. Why on *earth* would you want to send this kind of boring message that suggests all you can do is copy the other side?

An intensely destructive proposal to US scientific freedom and capability

This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress.

The unnerving part is not simply that a Godzilla El Niño may be arriving. It’s that we just came off a La Niña-like phase and 2025 still ranked among the hottest years ever measured. El Niño is no longer landing on the old climate. It’s landing on this one.

China’s Grey-Zone Fleet Is Eroding Taiwan’s Control at Sea www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

We haven’t even begun to understand the Pandora’s Box that this war has opened. @cfr.org www.cfr.org/articles/aft...

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, not just a climate one. Our new @ox.ac.uk @ecioxford.bsky.social analysis finds up to 90% of industrial energy demand could be electrified. The potential is there. The main constraint is policy. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04...

A prolonged fossil fuel crunch just might, at this moment, be *the* exogenous shock necessary for a rapid global transition to clean energy adoption, but also it's going to be a brutally miserable experience for the world's poorest.

Next installment in my Environmental Security video series with a discussion of Africa's vulnerabilities to climate security risks. youtu.be/35lrMzYMeS8

50 Years of the Magnuson-Stevens Act | ESP advisors

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

This is how it's done! "a core reserve where fishing is banned outright, surrounded by a buffer zone that allows some artisanal fishing — designed to allow local fishing communities to retain their traditional livelihoods" www.conservation.org/news/brazil-...

Huge scoop that Microsoft is pausing its CDR program via @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social + @heatmap.news. If true, this will have big consequences for ocean carbon removal, as Microsoft was one of the biggest funders of mCDR. heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Iran demands fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire ft.trib.al/DsD4mrH

Trump's war on Iran has reminded me of Putin's war on Ukraine in so many ways, not least of which is this one: a cadre of advisors being too scared to tell the President what they really think, only to be horrified when he unleashes what they should've stopped him from doing in the first place.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Morning Joe just played a clip of Zbigniew Brzezinski warning in 2012 that attacking Iran was “playing with fire.” That is the year that he joined with other senior leaders to warn of the enormous costs of war with Iran. open.substack.com/pub/joecirin...

jesus christ

LOOK AT THIS

At a 4% leakage rate, gas power is no better than almost any coal power except the very dirtiest coal varieties. It’s safe to conclude that compressing and shipping gas as LNG from the U.S. to Europe is not really an improvement over coal. The only solution is electrification, renewables + storage.

Breaking: A panel called the "God Squad" just voted to waive Endangered Species Act protections for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. @nytimes.com gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/c...

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

In a new episode of State of Play, CSIS experts Emily Harding, Caitlin Welsh, and @myacoubian.bsky.social joined @willtodman.bsky.social to discuss aspects of the war on Iran getting less attention, including food security, economic security, and humanitarian crises. Listen: https://bit.ly/4tbynFh

the serious answer is that we need a wholesale recommitment on the left to public higher education as a high quality low/no cost public good rather than a jobs training licensing agency. I do not anticipate this happening.

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public. 7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move. someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

As a GenXer bathed in irony as an all encompassing thing this hits very hard. Well done @aselrod.bsky.social @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com Empathy for the win.

Great reporting by my colleague @karadaniellefox.bsky.social and @ecalbert.bsky.social @mongabay.com, who tracked 8 Chinese research vessels that have undertaken deep-sea mining exploratory missions. They display a pattern of activity that points beyond civilian use edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Curbing IUU fishing by enforcing the port state measures agreement www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... 🧪 🦑 🌍️ 🐟️

The dramatic expansion of renewables following Europe's 2022 energy crisis is remarkable. @ember-energy.org shows a 10% increase in wind and solar (and 10% decrease in fossil). Continuing that, plus adding batteries, is a clear way forward for Europe. ember-energy.org/latest-updat...

The EU is a global leader in the fight against illegal fishing, yet an important gap remains: some European citizens and companies own fishing vessels that fly non-EU flags, sometimes using opaque ownership structures that can undermine enforcement. 👉 europe.oceana.org/blog/flags-o...

I’m no expert but this is a fascinating analysis that boils down to commodity traders have been scared into only short term spec which has decoupled supply (crude) from demand (refined products) pricing which is locking in a looming credit and supply crisis for refiners (and users) later in the year

Are you interested in climate change, fisheries & marine resource management? 🌊 🐟 Then I highly recommend recent paper by Malin Pinsky @ucscscience.bsky.social and Sarah Smith @universityofri.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.