Kayakers and paddleboarders are disturbing marine mammals around Scotland's coasts https://phys.org/news/2025-06-kayakers-paddleboarders-disturbing-marine-mammals.html 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Whales #Science #Dolphins #Seals #Scotland
Our Common Ocean
Writer and Educator
“In the saving of the ocean lies the saving of ourselves”, or as Sylvia Earle says: “No blue, no green”
Special issue on seabirds and marine heatwaves https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v737/
#seabirds #ocean #marineHeatwave
Our Common Ocean boosted:
Net zero goal still alive, says IEA – but the world still faces major obstacles to reach it https://theconversation.com/net-zero-goal-still-alive-says-iea-but-the-world-still-faces-major-obstacles-to-reach-it-214522?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange
New blog post: “The shark that holds its breath.” Not what you may have been expecting – a fish that holds its breath for 17 minutes as it dives deep in search of its prey, but it has good reasons for doing so. https://bit.ly/45AbrDP
#sharks #ecology #ocean
New blog post: “Whales: how small can you go?”
My blog is all about the ocean, so there were bound to be whales sooner or later, but why are cetaceans the size that they are?
Image courtesy Ari Friedlaender, Oregon State University
https://bit.ly/44P47nW
#ocean #cetacean #minke #whales
Our Common Ocean boosted:
New Danish study just out in Nature Communications, titled "Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation".
Is it serious? Here's my take on it: https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/07/what-is-happening-in-the-atlantic-ocean-to-the-amoc/
Our Common Ocean boosted:
Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world, including:
> The Indian Ocean saw an intense, slow-moving cyclone in the Arabian Sea that deprived land of rainfall for weeks.
> In the Atlantic, the weakening trade winds associated with #ElNiño tend to tamp down #hurricane activity, but warm Atlantic temperatures can supercharge those storms.
(via @TheConversationUS)
https://theconversation.com/ocean-heat-is-off-the-charts-heres-what-that-means-for-humans-and-ecosystems-around-the-world-207902
Our Common Ocean boosted:
There are currently 1000s of drifting floats, buoys, and other observing systems dispersed in our oceans.
These international programs are important for monitoring global climate. Many of these data sets are also publicly available! #WorldOceansDay2023 🌊
New blog post: “Wild Isles, Wild Waters, Why Here?”
The UK is exceptional … : it is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries.’ Why I write about UK waters and why local is important.
http://bit.ly/3KoUR0y
#WildIsles #Ocean #NatureMatters
Image: An image of Britain and Ireland taken by the Sentinel 3 satellite, part of the Copernicus programme.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO via Wikimedia Commons
Our Common Ocean boosted:
[Seganfreddo et al.] Phenology of harbor #seal pupping and the influence of weather on pup counts, investigated by UAV https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13020?af=R 🦭 #MarineScience #MarineMammals #Pinnipeds
Day 3 of #EssayCamp with @summerbrennan and the theme of perseverance. Free-writing today, I explored what it means to persevere and how it relates to its sometimes fractious sibling resilience.
Our Common Ocean boosted:
It's the second day of #EssayCamp. The theme for today is "commit" https://summerbrennan.substack.com/p/essay-camp-day-2-11b
Our Common Ocean boosted:
RT @danner_mc
Read the full @ipbes #SustainableUse of Wild Species Assessment! 🍄🐢🐅🦞
The accomplishment of 4 years of hard work, written by 85 experts (+200 contributing authors) and based on more than 6200 references from scientific literature & indigenous and local knowledge. https://twitter.com/IPBES/status/1633079548832108548
Well, this is both unsurprising and depressing:
"Fossil fuels received £20bn more UK support than renewables since 2015" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015
Our Common Ocean boosted:
RT @UNEP_Europe: Happy World Seagrass Day! 🎉
Seagrass only covers 0.1% of the ocean floor, but stores up to 18% of oceanic carbon!
These important ecosystems are continuing to decline.
Learn about a successful seagrass #GenerationRestoration story in Scotland 🏴👇 https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/stories/generationrestoration-scotland-seagrass-and-scottish-seabird-centre
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1630902985331965954
Today is #worldSeagrassDay. #Seagrass is a marine flowering plant with amazing biodiversity and a huge capacity to store carbon. I wrote a short series about #seagrass last year: what it is and why should we care (https://bit.ly/3P6L5ko), what the threats to it are (https://bit.ly/3z0B3Mt), and what we can do about it (https://bit.ly/3OsmZAc) Image: https://twitter.com/Shannon_Photo/ and https://twitter.com/theoceanagency/
Our Common Ocean boosted:
RT @UNEP: Seagrasses are vital to #ClimateAction and biodiversity conservation. They:
🟢Purify ocean water
🟢Provide fish nurseries
🟢Capture and store carbon
Find out more about their superpowers this #WorldSeagrassDay: https://t.co/3ZuSmijKof
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_MARE/status/1630884552301240322
Latest blog post: “Tidal flows, tidal power” http://bit.ly/3XLGacV
This was my (unsuccessful) application for the Save Our Seas Foundation Ocean Storytelling Writing Grant. Many congrats to the winners, and looking forward to reading their work.
Image: @theoceanagency / @thomashorig (twitter/insta)
Our Common Ocean boosted:
A new UN ocean treaty is being negotiated **this week** on the conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (ie. the open ocean which doesn't belong to any specific country). This is a huge deal for the ocean, and it's taken a long time to get to this point. It looks as though a clear direction is being set, and now it's just down to the details. Daily summaries of progress are here: https://enb.iisd.org/marine-biodiversity-beyond-national-jurisdiction-bbnj-igc5-resumed #Ocean #MarineProtectedAreas
Our Common Ocean boosted:
After #COP15: What's next?
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework #GBF has been adopted. What is it all about? 🤔
📷@Reuters
🗞️@wef
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/cop15-historic-deal-protect-nature-earth-2030/
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