Brian Skerry
@brianskerry.bsky.social
Documentary Filmmaker & Wildlife Photojournalist -
National Geographic Magazine Photographer
National Geographic Magazine Photographer
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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.
@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.
July 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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.
@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.
It's Friday - So, I thought I would share my photo of a Happy Great White Shark!
April 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It's Friday - So, I thought I would share my photo of a Happy Great White Shark!
Curious Humpback Whale calf, spyhopping to look at me!
March 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Curious Humpback Whale calf, spyhopping to look at me!
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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. 🧵👇
March 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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. 🧵👇
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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.
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests
The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
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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.
It remains one of the greatest protest songs ever written, and the lyrics penned for inclusion and equality.
March 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
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
Orca swim in Norwegian Arctic fiords days before the Polar Night
March 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Celebrating beautiful Norway today!
Orca swim in Norwegian Arctic fiords days before the Polar Night
Orca swim in Norwegian Arctic fiords days before the Polar Night
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Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House's efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget — leaves the fishery organization’s p...
www.pressherald.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
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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.
Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.
oceanacidification.noaa.gov
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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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...
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...
Trump fires NOAA scientists helping whales and offshore wind coexist
Scores of employees working to ensure offshore wind has a low impact on whales, birds, and other wildlife were cut in a major round of layoffs at the…
www.canarymedia.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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...
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.'
Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'
February 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Narwhal family - Canadian Arctic
Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'
Coverage from my National Geographic story 'Secrets of the Whales.'
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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
BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year in pivot away from green goals
Firm confirms plans to scale back green energy efforts and ‘fundamentally reset’ strategy
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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
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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.
The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
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...
She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals. (Gift Article)
Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
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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
🐳🌍🦑
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
🐳🌍🦑
Endangered Rice's Whale At Risk As Protection Efforts Are Rescinded
After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.
www.thetravel.com
February 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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
🐳🌍🦑
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
🐳🌍🦑
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Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science | grist.org/science/trum...
Trump's funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science
Federal dollars have bankrolled some of humanity's biggest breakthroughs.
grist.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump’s funding freeze is wreaking havoc on climate science | grist.org/science/trum...
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This climate ad played during the Super Bowl: youtu.be/GYwPLhjAZtE?...
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YouTube video by Science Moms
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February 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This climate ad played during the Super Bowl: youtu.be/GYwPLhjAZtE?...