The world has lost a truly great hero today. Dr Jane Goodall inspired generations to study animals as living individuals—and more importantly, to listen to what non-human animals have to teach us.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years. With an award from Climate Breakthrough, he aims to help the next 50 countries do the same
The Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) will now enter into force, strengthening conservation & management of 40% of the earth’s surface & 64% of the ocean
The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026! Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter! #marinescience#conservation#conference
“Right whale” has ~10x as many mentions. Given relevance to lobster fishing & shipping, makes sense.
There’s a great paper here for someone to write on the relationship between the urgency of conservation problems & the focus of policy-makers. eg www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
We searched for “killer whale” to see who’s talking about the most critically endangered marine mammal in waters under US jurisdiction (southern residents). Not many. Check out that y axis scale.
Here is the paper where we coined the phrase, “bright extinction” — where the decline and the causes for the decline are well documented, but we’re not doing enough to halt the decline. It’s not to late to save SRKW but we’re running out of time
Lack of year round access to big, fat Chinook #salmon remains the primary factor in the failure to recover southern resident killer whales, but this @raincoast.org -led scientific consensus report lists 31 things we can do today to slow, stabilize, & reverse the decline
Wow, incredible new database joining together 14 separate fisheries surveys in the NE Pacific from the tip of the Alaskan islands through British Columbia to southern California. Nice work @eric-ward.bsky.social
The map won't quite load at airnow.gov... I'm guessing because so many Seattleites are wondering if Smoketember has arrived... Fires now ring the Puget Sound region in almost every direction. #wawx
Today on Volts: longtime movement veterans @billmckibben.bsky.social & @jamiehenn.bsky.social drop by to discuss what's next for climate activism. They envision a movement focused on the sun: kicking off with a national "Sun Day" & then organizing locally to help renewable energy projects get built.
I'm Trevor and I use computer models and synthesis to solve problems in fisheries and whales: how many fish can we catch safely? What is the status of whales? Why can killer whales not hear the loudest songs in the ocean from blue and fin whales? I also love teaching folks how to make cool R plots!
We’re a research nonprofit cofounded by Dr @erinashe.bsky.social & Dr Rob Williams. Our team does science to guide conservation of whales, dolphins, salmon, & the critical habitats on which they depend, in the face of climate change, fisheries, noise, toxics, & other threats.
