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Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
New paper by the World’s most prominent climate scientists shows rapid acceleration of human-caused warming, with a warming rate now that tracks to near 2.4°C by 2050, far faster than was expected, if it continues.
From paper: “We are witnessing the rapid destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present. Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond. Human activities are driving profound shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.”
Paper Link in replies… H/T @LeonSimons8 …
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#OceanHope
‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles
theguardian.com/environment/…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#RemarkableOceanPlanet ✨
The deep sea is still 99% unknown to humans
And NOAA Fisheries Service researchers just identified nine new deep sea sponges!
One identified species is so unique they had to create a new genus for it
oceanwire.wordpress.com/2026…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Satellite data reveal massive scale of routine oil pollution in oceans
Oil slicks from ships and offshore oil platforms cover nearly 1.6 million square kilometers (618,000 square miles) of the ocean surface each year, an area slightly larger than the nation of Mongolia.
news.mongabay.com/short-arti…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
"Deforestation is not development. It is self-sabotage on a planetary scale."
Every forest cleared for short-term profit steals long-term security from future generations. True progress protects nature; it doesn't erase it.
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
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The herring fishery that took 400 years to rebound—and what it teaches us today
phys.org/news/2026-09-herrin…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#ElNino #climateemergency
Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
I’d agree here. We’ve seen a lot of deviant weather/ climate behavior over the past few years. But my honest assessment is: this El Niño is by far the most extreme outlier. If we are being honest, a year ago, could any climate/ weather expert legitimately say that they could conceive of an El Niño so far outside the distribution? I’m genuinely curious? Anyone? Bueller??Because I’ve become accustomed to now “expect the unexpected”. But for this I apparently need to adjust my expectations wayyyyy upward.
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Nova Scotia just got a visit from one of the ocean's gentle giants. A basking shark, second only to the whale shark in size... spent Friday evening drifting through Bedford Basin while a crowd gathered to watch. It's a filter feeder, not a threat, and sightings like this are a reminder of why healthy coastal waters matter.
Seen a shark you couldn't ID? Tell us! Every sighting adds up.
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Its not just the Mexican Grey Wolves that Trump is exterminating forever from Earth
Rice Whales have existed for 3 million years in Gulf of Mexico but not much longer as Evil Trump invokes national security to remove protections for, last remaining 50 Rice Whales
Even slowing boats in whale habitat Trump will not allow
Video Sierra Club
theguardian.com/environment/…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#WhaleWednesday
'They were legends': Humpback whales make spectacular comeback off Brazil's coast
france24.com/en/environment/…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
Go to Mallorca they said. It'll be fun they said.
A freak storm hit Valldemossa on Wednesday, bringing gusts of up to 158 km/h (new record for Mallorca). It downed trees, cut power to 17,000, and caused flash floods.
This is a prime example of how climate change supercharges our weather. Record-breaking Mediterranean sea temperatures acted as fuel, turning a standard storm front into a violent, destructive event.
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
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Mapping America’s Largest ‘Dead Zone’
In a decades-long crisis, marine life has suffered as oxygen periodically dwindles in waters along the Gulf Coast.
Gift link:
nytimes.com/2026/08/22/scien…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#RemarkableOceanPlanet #climateemergency
Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
bbc.com/news/articles/cq6dn9…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
I’m always astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will delay necessary protections for North Atlantic right whales, but the fight doesn’t end here.
With only around 380 of these gentle giants remaining, the U.S. Senate must stop this bill: oceana.ly/4cYS9Ou
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
“This is probably one of the larger, if not the largest, climate events…that anybody alive is potentially ever experiencing.”
motherjones.com/environment/…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#OceanHeroes 🏆️
Locals Succeed in Tripling Protected Seascapes Along 300 Miles of Turkiye’s Breathtaking Coastline
goodnewsnetwork.org/locals-s…
Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻 retweeted
#whales
‘Double Spiral’ Secret of Narwhal’s Twisted Tusk Revealed By High Tech X-Rays
goodnewsnetwork.org/double-s…
