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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
#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/...
September 2, 2025 at 12:23 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
August 28, 2025 at 4:45 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...
August 5, 2025 at 6:51 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...
August 3, 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...
July 31, 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...
July 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#WhaleWednesday

This New Shark Species Looks Like a Tiny Sperm Whale

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/n...
July 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#alohafriday 🙃

Deep-sea “hot tubs” help octopus mothers brood their eggs

www.bbcearth.com/news/deep-se...
July 4, 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/...
June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#alohafriday

5 Tide Pool Creatures to Become When Life Is Too Much

orionmagazine.org/article/5-ti...
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#MondayOceanMotivation

“If we save the sea, we save the planet.”
— Sir David Attenborough
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...
May 14, 2025 at 12:13 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
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 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
April 18, 2025 at 2:42 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
March 27, 2025 at 12:13 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
March 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#SeaturtleTuesday

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
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.
March 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#ClimateEmergency #krill #BetterTogether

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
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Octopuses: Facts about the 8-armed geniuses of the sea

via @LiveScience
February 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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New Technology Lights Up Coral Beds to Speed Reef Restoration By Attracting Food
February 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#WhaleWednesday

Orcas off Antarctica filmed teaching calves to hunt in incredible new footage

via @LiveScience
February 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateResearch #science

Fascinating research! Scientists studying Antarctica's ice ... for info about the earth's climate over thousands of years

"Ancient Air, Frozen in Time, Holds Clues to Modern Mystery"

www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...
February 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
No matter what happens we still live on a #RemarkableOceanPlanet
February 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#MondayOceanMotivation

Earth is the blue planet. There's plenty of water elsewhere in the universe, but nowhere is there a living ocean such as ours. ~Sylvia Earle
December 30, 2024 at 1:13 PM