NOAA rescinds regulation prohibiting commercial fishing in Atlantic monument area NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today rescinded a regulation that prohibited commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument boundaries. This action was...

The hits keep coming.

Conservation win as first palm cockatoo chick fledges from artificial hollow in Australia A palm cockatoo chick fledged from an artificial log hollow installed on a tree as part of People For Wildlife’s Breeding Habitat Restoration Project.

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Interesting photo 😂! It was my pleasure!

Mining the deep ocean Renewable technologies need a multitude of critical minerals. The seabed could supply these riches. But at what cost?

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Many of them deep-sea species

As the oil and gas crisis drives the world economy towards another financial crash, green energy is the only viable future Could this be a watershed moment heralding US geopolitical and technological decline?

As the oil and gas crisis drives the world economy towards another financial crash, green energy is the only viable future
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"Grow your own and buy local": Networks seek change and flexibility to manage a 100 pct renewable grid As rooftop solar, home batteries and EV uptake surges, networks seek regulatory change to boost flexibility, two way flows and lower costs in homes.

South Australia expected – within 18 months – to become first gigawatt-scale grid in the world to reach 100% net #renewables (net refers to the fact that it imports and exports at times and is not an isolated grid), and already running at 75% wind and solar.
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BOEM Recommends Doubling Deep-Sea Mining Zone Around CNMI to 69.1 Million Acres A signed BOEM memo dated March 13 recommends 69.1 million acres around the CNMI for deep-sea mining leases — nearly double the original proposal — drawing opposition from Guam and conditional objections...

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposes nearly doubling the deep-sea mining zone around the Northern Mariana Islands, raising environmental concerns.
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Trump’s Nominee to Run NSF is Unqualified, Conflicted, and a Threat to Science If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.

“If O’Neill is confirmed as NSF’s director, the Trump administration will further tighten its control over an agency created by Congress to be independent in its work to advance science.” UCS’s Julian Reyes explains why the Senate should work to block this nomination:

Breaking News: UCAR files federal lawsuit to stop dismantling of National Center for Atmospheric Research Lawsuit lists NSF, NOAA, DOC, OMB and their directors as defendents

BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

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This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing

This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands | Sierra Club

"Another proposal would see the province cut its grants to universities by 10 per cent overall while also freezing tuition rates, which would prevent the schools from raising those fees to make up for the lost funding."

Oh, yes, that worked *so* well here in Ontario /s

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No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way? All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.

The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy.

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Are you attending the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow next week?

The #DeepOcean features strongly throughout this year’s programme with numerous sessions convened and supported by DOSI working groups and members.

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See you in Glasgow for #OSM2026 👋

Graph of CO2 concentrations for the past 800,000 years from the Antarctic ice cores, showing current CO2 levels of 430 ppm are far, far higher than any level over this period, which never exceeded 300 ppm. Also shown is the emergence of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago -- so CO2 levels are higher than we've ever experienced.

You are here.
We've breached 430 ppm CO2.
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Unacceptable!

These findings from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) underline how close the world is moving to the 1.5°C warming limit of the Paris Agreement. We discuss how close in our Global Climate Highlights 2025 report: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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🌡️ For the third year in a row, every day in 2025 was more than 1°C warmer than the 1850–1900 pre-industrial level. Over a third of days were above 1.5°C.

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Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets: study OTTAWA - A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not the 2026 interim

Canada is taking his climate commitments as optional as opposed to existential. While there are many reasons for the recent reversals, and the current federal gov is likely a better climate option than the alternative, this is still profoundly disappointing.
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Canada, where are you?

Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.

Trump’s EPA announced the reversal of a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health.

Doctors and epidemiologists say the evidence is clear: climate-linked heat, air pollution, extreme weather and mosquito-borne illness are killing millions worldwide. buff.ly/nhU7CQa

The Biodiversa+ Business Guide to Sharing Biodiversity Data

The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity assessment flags fragmented data, weak metric comparability and low value chain transparency as major barriers to aligning business decisions with biodiversity goals. Better biodiversity data sharing is part of the fix.
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An IPBES informational image split into two sections. The left side features a quote from David Obura in green text discussing the first-ever fast-track IPBES Assessment, describing its urgency and connection to global biodiversity frameworks. The text is decorated with small nature-themed icons including a frog, tree, butterfly, and crab at the bottom, along with the IPBES logo. The right side shows David Obura at a conference setting seated at a table with a microphone and UN-style flag visible. The speaker is wearing glasses and a dark casual shirt. The image identifies them as "David Obura | IPBES Chair" in white text on a green banner at the bottom.

"This is the 1st fast-track IPBES Assessment, delivered with urgency to support businesses, governments & financial actors in meeting the Global Biodiversity Framework, SDGs & Paris Agreement goals."
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Trump's EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

The EPA is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends.

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