Oceanwire
@oceanwire.bsky.social
Curating the knowledge, news and sheer wonder of our planet's remarkable ocean
“You have to love it before you're moved to save it.” ~Sylvia Earle
https://oceanwire.wordpress.com
“You have to love it before you're moved to save it.” ~Sylvia Earle
https://oceanwire.wordpress.com
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Merry Christmas one and all... ✨
via @LegoLostAtSea
Merry Christmas one and all... ✨
via @LegoLostAtSea
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Merry Christmas one and all... ✨
via @LegoLostAtSea
Merry Christmas one and all... ✨
via @LegoLostAtSea
#WhaleWednesday
Progress! Blue whale calf numbers are up — 13 instead of the usual 9 or 10 — recorded off W Australia's sw coast.
Obvious lower-than-normal fat reserves were observed in adult whales, which can affect reproduction. Their diet is mostly krill. MT @DrTOMontgomery ✨
Progress! Blue whale calf numbers are up — 13 instead of the usual 9 or 10 — recorded off W Australia's sw coast.
Obvious lower-than-normal fat reserves were observed in adult whales, which can affect reproduction. Their diet is mostly krill. MT @DrTOMontgomery ✨
December 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#WhaleWednesday
Progress! Blue whale calf numbers are up — 13 instead of the usual 9 or 10 — recorded off W Australia's sw coast.
Obvious lower-than-normal fat reserves were observed in adult whales, which can affect reproduction. Their diet is mostly krill. MT @DrTOMontgomery ✨
Progress! Blue whale calf numbers are up — 13 instead of the usual 9 or 10 — recorded off W Australia's sw coast.
Obvious lower-than-normal fat reserves were observed in adult whales, which can affect reproduction. Their diet is mostly krill. MT @DrTOMontgomery ✨
Scientists know the animal’s optic glands are responsible for this behavior. If the glands are removed, the octopuses resume eating and live months longer.
But how these glands trigger the animal’s gruesome death has been a mystery.
bit.ly/44qQ6xP
📸: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory
But how these glands trigger the animal’s gruesome death has been a mystery.
bit.ly/44qQ6xP
📸: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Scientists know the animal’s optic glands are responsible for this behavior. If the glands are removed, the octopuses resume eating and live months longer.
But how these glands trigger the animal’s gruesome death has been a mystery.
bit.ly/44qQ6xP
📸: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory
But how these glands trigger the animal’s gruesome death has been a mystery.
bit.ly/44qQ6xP
📸: Tom Kleindinst, Marine Biological Laboratory
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STRIKING: Check out the bold coat of the ribbon seal! 🖤🤍
These Arctic seals spend most of their lives in the icy open ocean, rarely hauling out on ice. Their unique light-colored “ribbons” develop over their first three years, becoming more defined with each annual molt.
RT @oceana
STRIKING: Check out the bold coat of the ribbon seal! 🖤🤍
These Arctic seals spend most of their lives in the icy open ocean, rarely hauling out on ice. Their unique light-colored “ribbons” develop over their first three years, becoming more defined with each annual molt.
RT @oceana
December 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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STRIKING: Check out the bold coat of the ribbon seal! 🖤🤍
These Arctic seals spend most of their lives in the icy open ocean, rarely hauling out on ice. Their unique light-colored “ribbons” develop over their first three years, becoming more defined with each annual molt.
RT @oceana
STRIKING: Check out the bold coat of the ribbon seal! 🖤🤍
These Arctic seals spend most of their lives in the icy open ocean, rarely hauling out on ice. Their unique light-colored “ribbons” develop over their first three years, becoming more defined with each annual molt.
RT @oceana
#WhaleWednesday
Beluga whales still held in captivity at the closed Arctic Cove exhibit, Marineland, Canada
The 30 captive belugas have nothing to do but wait as their future hangs in the balance. The park’s owners threaten to euthanise them unless the fed govt covers their costs
📸 Daphne Lemelin
Beluga whales still held in captivity at the closed Arctic Cove exhibit, Marineland, Canada
The 30 captive belugas have nothing to do but wait as their future hangs in the balance. The park’s owners threaten to euthanise them unless the fed govt covers their costs
📸 Daphne Lemelin
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#WhaleWednesday
Beluga whales still held in captivity at the closed Arctic Cove exhibit, Marineland, Canada
The 30 captive belugas have nothing to do but wait as their future hangs in the balance. The park’s owners threaten to euthanise them unless the fed govt covers their costs
📸 Daphne Lemelin
Beluga whales still held in captivity at the closed Arctic Cove exhibit, Marineland, Canada
The 30 captive belugas have nothing to do but wait as their future hangs in the balance. The park’s owners threaten to euthanise them unless the fed govt covers their costs
📸 Daphne Lemelin
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateHeroes #StandUpFightBack
Great news! The USA’s pre-eminent online hub for critical climate info, Climate.gov, shut down by the extremist US gov’t
HAS BEEN REVIVED as climate.us … by volunteers with an expanded mission 💪🏽 🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great news! The USA’s pre-eminent online hub for critical climate info, Climate.gov, shut down by the extremist US gov’t
HAS BEEN REVIVED as climate.us … by volunteers with an expanded mission 💪🏽 🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateHeroes #StandUpFightBack
Great news! The USA’s pre-eminent online hub for critical climate info, Climate.gov, shut down by the extremist US gov’t
HAS BEEN REVIVED as climate.us … by volunteers with an expanded mission 💪🏽 🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great news! The USA’s pre-eminent online hub for critical climate info, Climate.gov, shut down by the extremist US gov’t
HAS BEEN REVIVED as climate.us … by volunteers with an expanded mission 💪🏽 🎉
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At this really critical crossroads in time, we need to use the knowledge we have and to come together. Everybody is, without exception, vulnerable to the state of the planet, the habitability of Earth.
RT @SylviaEarle ✨
📸 @KipEvansPhoto
At this really critical crossroads in time, we need to use the knowledge we have and to come together. Everybody is, without exception, vulnerable to the state of the planet, the habitability of Earth.
RT @SylviaEarle ✨
📸 @KipEvansPhoto
August 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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At this really critical crossroads in time, we need to use the knowledge we have and to come together. Everybody is, without exception, vulnerable to the state of the planet, the habitability of Earth.
RT @SylviaEarle ✨
📸 @KipEvansPhoto
At this really critical crossroads in time, we need to use the knowledge we have and to come together. Everybody is, without exception, vulnerable to the state of the planet, the habitability of Earth.
RT @SylviaEarle ✨
📸 @KipEvansPhoto
#EndPlasticPollution #EndFossilFuels
🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨
Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not
Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨
Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not
Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
August 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#EndPlasticPollution #EndFossilFuels
🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨
Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not
Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨
Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not
Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
#RemarkableOceanPlanet
Scientists discover A Whole New Type of Ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In the Pacific Ocean, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Scientists discover A Whole New Type of Ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In the Pacific Ocean, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
August 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#RemarkableOceanPlanet
Scientists discover A Whole New Type of Ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In the Pacific Ocean, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Scientists discover A Whole New Type of Ecosystem 30,000 feet deep
In the Pacific Ocean, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
#USAislosing
Thankfully countries are stepping up to face the #climateemergency
after the extremist Republican govt abdicated US leadership
“As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China & Europe Pledge to Go Green Together"
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
Thankfully countries are stepping up to face the #climateemergency
after the extremist Republican govt abdicated US leadership
“As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China & Europe Pledge to Go Green Together"
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
July 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#USAislosing
Thankfully countries are stepping up to face the #climateemergency
after the extremist Republican govt abdicated US leadership
“As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China & Europe Pledge to Go Green Together"
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
Thankfully countries are stepping up to face the #climateemergency
after the extremist Republican govt abdicated US leadership
“As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China & Europe Pledge to Go Green Together"
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
#ClimateEmergency
Fantastic! 🙌🏽 🫶🏽
More than 2,400 @nytimes readers describe climate action and solutions in their communities
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
Fantastic! 🙌🏽 🫶🏽
More than 2,400 @nytimes readers describe climate action and solutions in their communities
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
July 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#ClimateEmergency
Fantastic! 🙌🏽 🫶🏽
More than 2,400 @nytimes readers describe climate action and solutions in their communities
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
Fantastic! 🙌🏽 🫶🏽
More than 2,400 @nytimes readers describe climate action and solutions in their communities
gift link for the Oceanwire ohana 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/c...
#WhaleWednesday
This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
July 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#WhaleWednesday
This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
#alohafriday 🙃
Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs
www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs
www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
July 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#alohafriday 🙃
Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs
www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs
www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
#OurAmazingOcean
😮 The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
😮 The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#OurAmazingOcean
😮 The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
😮 The supergiant amphipod Alicella gigantea may inhabit over half of the world’s oceans
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
May 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#ClimateEmergency
‘Rapid Response System’ Can Tell When Heat Waves Are Fueled By Climate Change
studyfinds.org/heat-wave-fu...
‘Rapid Response System’ Can Tell When Heat Waves Are Fueled By Climate Change
studyfinds.org/heat-wave-fu...
May 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#ClimateEmergency
‘Rapid Response System’ Can Tell When Heat Waves Are Fueled By Climate Change
studyfinds.org/heat-wave-fu...
‘Rapid Response System’ Can Tell When Heat Waves Are Fueled By Climate Change
studyfinds.org/heat-wave-fu...
"We need to challenge people to look in the mirror & see what each of you, each of us, can do. All of us need water, the fabric of our lives. All of us need a planet that works. & all of us have the power to do something about it.” --SylviaEarle
📸BGroark📍Palmyra Atoll Hope Spot
📸BGroark📍Palmyra Atoll Hope Spot
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"We need to challenge people to look in the mirror & see what each of you, each of us, can do. All of us need water, the fabric of our lives. All of us need a planet that works. & all of us have the power to do something about it.” --SylviaEarle
📸BGroark📍Palmyra Atoll Hope Spot
📸BGroark📍Palmyra Atoll Hope Spot
#alohafriday
"With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around." ✨ ~ @SylviaEarle
📸 Jeremy Bishop
"With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around." ✨ ~ @SylviaEarle
📸 Jeremy Bishop
April 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#alohafriday
"With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around." ✨ ~ @SylviaEarle
📸 Jeremy Bishop
"With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around." ✨ ~ @SylviaEarle
📸 Jeremy Bishop
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What lurks beneath the surface? One million species live in the sea—but we’ve only discovered about one-third of them.
Which ceatures live where the sun doesn't reach? What do they eat? How do we research them? The answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4hIZKQX MT @NOAAFisheries
What lurks beneath the surface? One million species live in the sea—but we’ve only discovered about one-third of them.
Which ceatures live where the sun doesn't reach? What do they eat? How do we research them? The answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4hIZKQX MT @NOAAFisheries
March 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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What lurks beneath the surface? One million species live in the sea—but we’ve only discovered about one-third of them.
Which ceatures live where the sun doesn't reach? What do they eat? How do we research them? The answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4hIZKQX MT @NOAAFisheries
What lurks beneath the surface? One million species live in the sea—but we’ve only discovered about one-third of them.
Which ceatures live where the sun doesn't reach? What do they eat? How do we research them? The answers may surprise you: bit.ly/4hIZKQX MT @NOAAFisheries
YES! Great communication from @NOAA's Rebecca Ferro!
Her breakdown of NOAA's monetary value to the US:
- 1.7 million jobs, $253 billion in sales
- $117 billion in value added impacts
- 1.1 million commercial jobs
- 595 thousand recreational jobs
- $154.7 billion commercial sales
Her breakdown of NOAA's monetary value to the US:
- 1.7 million jobs, $253 billion in sales
- $117 billion in value added impacts
- 1.1 million commercial jobs
- 595 thousand recreational jobs
- $154.7 billion commercial sales
March 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
YES! Great communication from @NOAA's Rebecca Ferro!
Her breakdown of NOAA's monetary value to the US:
- 1.7 million jobs, $253 billion in sales
- $117 billion in value added impacts
- 1.1 million commercial jobs
- 595 thousand recreational jobs
- $154.7 billion commercial sales
Her breakdown of NOAA's monetary value to the US:
- 1.7 million jobs, $253 billion in sales
- $117 billion in value added impacts
- 1.1 million commercial jobs
- 595 thousand recreational jobs
- $154.7 billion commercial sales
#SeaturtleTuesday
Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
March 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#SeaturtleTuesday
Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Inside the Herculean Effort to Study and Save the World’s Smallest Sea Turtle
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Happy World Seagrass Day!
Celebrated on March 1, #WorldSeagrassDay highlights the ecological importance of seagrass such as:
1. Seagrass meadows provide shelter and food helping to promote marine biodiversity and natural habitat.
Celebrated on March 1, #WorldSeagrassDay highlights the ecological importance of seagrass such as:
1. Seagrass meadows provide shelter and food helping to promote marine biodiversity and natural habitat.
March 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Happy World Seagrass Day!
Celebrated on March 1, #WorldSeagrassDay highlights the ecological importance of seagrass such as:
1. Seagrass meadows provide shelter and food helping to promote marine biodiversity and natural habitat.
Celebrated on March 1, #WorldSeagrassDay highlights the ecological importance of seagrass such as:
1. Seagrass meadows provide shelter and food helping to promote marine biodiversity and natural habitat.
#ClimateEmergency #krill #BetterTogether
Scientists Unite to Count Tiny Krill from Space – Tracking this KEY Ocean Species to Inform Climate and Fishing Policies
Scientists Unite to Count Tiny Krill from Space – Tracking this KEY Ocean Species to Inform Climate and Fishing Policies
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#ClimateEmergency #krill #BetterTogether
Scientists Unite to Count Tiny Krill from Space – Tracking this KEY Ocean Species to Inform Climate and Fishing Policies
Scientists Unite to Count Tiny Krill from Space – Tracking this KEY Ocean Species to Inform Climate and Fishing Policies