Emperor penguins with chick (c) Wolfgang Kaehler

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals declared endangered, due to climate change

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Sharing this again in honor of the #Artemis II lunar flyby today

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

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.
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Do you happen to know how scholarly articles got dropped from the claim? When the settlement website was launched, we had 76 articles in the searchable database. Now 0. Were the works dropped during arbitration or did journal publishers claim copyright?

Extraordinary footage of a sperm whale birth shows coordinated help from family and non-family members for hours after birth, social behavior usually associated with primates www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health Abstract. We describe a minimally invasive pilot study to characterize the microbiota of exhaled breath from wild Pacific white-sided dolphins. Samples wer

We wrote about farmed and wild salmon, dolphin health, and human health from a One Health perspective in Canada’s Pacific region

@oceansinitiative.org @seadocsociety.org

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Pramila Jayapal Honors Life Of Women's Rights Activist And Environmentalist Nancy Nordhoff YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

We were profoundly moved by @jayapal.house.gov’s speech honoring the life and legacy of the late, great Nancy Nordhoff. We hope you’ll watch and share it. What an example of a generous life, well-lived.

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Nice infographic, @orcabehaviorinstitute.org!

Killer grey seals suspected of claiming first dolphin in Welsh waters

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And the root cause, according to Dr Ralph Chami: anything we can kill or extract from the ocean, we can value; but the living, thriving ocean is not valued as an asset.

Wonderful quote at #worldoceansummit on marine conservation financing: the ocean doesn’t need our sympathy; it needs to be respected as a valuable, irreplaceable asset.

- Ian McFadzen, CEO, Ocean Conservation Trust (UK)

Great quote from @worldwildlife.org ‘s excellent Lucy Holmes at @theeconomistevents.bsky.social’s #WorldOceanSummit: to solve global environmental problems, incrementalism is no longer an option.

Terrific conversation about governing the central Arctic Ocean before industrialization from Sheena Kennedy from Oceans North #wos2026

The BBNJ Treaty affects 95% of the world’s biosphere by volume!

Great point by @noc.ac.uk ‘s Alex Rogers at @theeconomistevents.bsky.social World Ocean Summit. #worldoceansummit

A return to traditional fishing methods may be needed to reduce bycatch of Risso’s dolphins and angel sharks in Irish crayfish fisheries

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Science Magazine - Endangered Species Act changes threaten reefs The Endangered Species Act (ESA) designates shallow coral reefs with endangered species as critical habitat, except in some exempt military-controlled zones (1).

How policy hurts the ecosystems. “Revising the ESA to expand exemptions prioritizes short-term economic interests over science, threatening coral reefs, eroding marine mammal protections” #OneHealth @naohun.bsky.social @oceansinitiative.org www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

A flyer for a fish biomechanics course at the Friday Harbor Labs this summer.

Every other summer we run a fish biomechanics course at Friday Harbor Labs. It is an awesome opportunity to learn the tools of biovisualization while experiencing the rich fish diversity of the Salish Sea. Come join us!
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WaterBear: Oceans Initiative On the misty shores of the Pacific Northwest, SeaLegacy founders Paul Nicklen and Cristina Mittermeier follow Oceans Initiative as they work to save a critically endangered...

Thank you for helping us reach our nonprofit’s $10,000 fundraising goal!

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Small New Zealand charity takes big swing at US government in bid to protect endangered dolphins

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WaterBear: Watch for Impact: Protect Marine Mammals Every minute you watch donates $1 USD to support ocean science and the conservation of marine mammals. Through Watch for Impact, your viewing helps fund Oceans Initiative, a team...

Thanks SeaLegacy for this great intro to the work we do to turn conservation science into action! For every minute watched, WaterBear will donate $1 to our nonprofit, so please share.

#killerwhales #ocean #conservation

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“…an unusual fluency across domains” is both a lovely phrase and an understatement, @mongabay.com. Science. Policy. Law. Diplomacy. All while being extraordinarily gracious and generous with her time, knowledge, and network. We’re so glad to have known her. We’ll miss her.

And in solidarity, we can never give up trying to stop and reverse the biodiversity crisis. Until a species is extinct, we’re not giving up on reversing population declines and protecting and restoring habitats. Onward! 🌊💙

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

Column | More than 100 scientists told me what kids books inspired their careers Want to inspire the next generation of scientists? Here are the best books recommended by experts in ecology, biology, entomology and other fields.

We love this! 100 scientists share the kids’ books that inspired their careers. What a gift list!

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Broadening disease surveillance to include wild dolphins and killer whales: novel components of One Health Abstract. We describe a minimally invasive pilot study to characterize the microbiota of exhaled breath from wild Pacific white-sided dolphins. Samples wer

Traveling with fish-eating killer whales provides a refuge from the mammal-eating killer whales. The dolphins may be searching for the herring that the Chinook salmon are eating. This also highlights the potential for pathogen transfer across species! academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins

Our Executive Director is quoted in this @nytimes.com article about the study. Some interesting interpretations from dolphin and killer whale researchers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...