Sharks are the architects of a healthy ocean. ✨🦈✨

@brianskerry.bsky.social, a world-renowned underwater photographer and filmmaker, reminds us that when apex predators vanish, the entire marine ecosystem can collapse. At #WHOI, we study how the changing ocean impacts their odds of survival.

Thank you for your commitment to the ocean!

It's Friday - So, I thought I would share my photo of a Happy Great White Shark!

So very sad. I knew Jim and he remains a great inspiration.

Curious Humpback Whale calf, spyhopping to look at me!

These are wonderful! I really love the visualization of echolocation!

The U.S. Constitution was built on a simple but powerful idea: No one person should have unchecked power. Today, that principle is under attack. 🧵👇

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.

President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

Thanks Alex!!

And they support democracy!

This Land is Your Land

85 years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land”

It remains one of the greatest protest songs ever written, and the lyrics penned for inclusion and equality.

Celebrating beautiful Norway today!

Orca swim in Norwegian Arctic fiords days before the Polar Night

Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...

Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Trump fires NOAA scientists helping whales and offshore wind coexist Scores of employees working to ensure offshore wind has a low impact on whales, birds, and other wildlife were cut in a major round of layoffs at the…

Misinformation campaigns have gotten a lot of mileage out of false claims that offshore wind kill whales.

Well, Trump's NOAA layoffs included dozens of scientists working to ensure wind and whales can coexist.

@fieseler.bsky.social has the scoop:

#energysky

www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.

apnews.com/article/nati...

Narwhal family - Canadian Arctic

Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'

EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.

Next: An executive order declaring gravity doesn't exist.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year in pivot away from green goals Firm confirms plans to scale back green energy efforts and ‘fundamentally reset’ strategy

As expected: BP will be giving up on greenwashing and misleading targets and instead be honest about its long-term, long-held strategy to expand the sale and use of fossil fuels

Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.

She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals. (Gift Article) Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

Endangered Rice's Whale At Risk As Protection Efforts Are Rescinded After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.

Meanwhile, in the world of #whales -
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded

~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
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These park rangers oversaw Florida’s only manatee refuge. Then they were fired. The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the only national refuge created specifically for threatened manatees.

www.tampabay.com/news/environ...

Mako Shark

Trump's funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs.

Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science | grist.org/science/trum...

ByTheTime YouTube video by Science Moms

This climate ad played during the Super Bowl: youtu.be/GYwPLhjAZtE?...