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. 🧵👇
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!
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
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.
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...
Narwhal family - Canadian Arctic
Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'
Next: An executive order declaring gravity doesn't exist.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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.
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...
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
🐳🌍🦑
Mako Shark
Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science | grist.org/science/trum...
