Ever wonder how Baleen whales (Blues, Greys, Humpbacks), the largest
and some of the most magnificent animals to ever roam the earth,
produce their highly complex communication sounds and whale songs?
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
For the past 10 years, marine biologist and conservationist Stan Shea has been leading a citizen-science program called the 114°E Hong Kong Reef Fish Survey to compile data on local reef fish species and raise awareness about the marine environment.
The program relies on a core network of around 50 volunteer divers, who assist Shea with his mission to raise awareness about Hong Kong’s aquatic life.
This is an oceanographic phenomenon worthy of our attention and alarm. Lots of talk about #TippingPoint events lately, with good reason. This is one of the most important to track, with profound global implications for #ClimateChange and #ExtinctionEvent triggering. If the #AMOC becomes more unstable, as it is doing every year, it WILL collapse - within a few generations. And that, my friends, will change the world in dramatic ways. We don’t want to go there, but are well on our way. #Oceans#Oceanography#AtlanticCurrents#ClimateCrisis#ClimateEmergency
In the latest Headlines of a Warming World, we're writing about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vital circulatory system of ocean currents, which is on a tipping course and could collapse due to freshwater input from melting ice and increased precipitation.
Disruption of the AMOC could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic.
If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.
Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.
Fishing gear accounts for approximately 70% of plastics more than 20cm in size that float on the surface, and 86% of plastic waste on the seafloor.
The fishing industry is filling the oceans with plastic. Plastic straws was a red herring.
The uncomfortable part most people won't say is.... who's buying all that fish, who's creating the demand? We are. It's us. Maybe we should cut back, let our oceans recover?
In today's Headlines of a Warming World, we're writing about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a vital circulatory system of ocean currents, which is on a tipping course and could collapse due to freshwater input from melting ice and increased precipitation.
Disruption of the AMOC could freeze Europe, scorch the tropics and increase sea level rise in the North Atlantic.
#Oceans#peche#bretagne
L’état de la ressource halieutique pour la pêche courante. En progrès mais c’est toujours une filière en tension. Hormis pour la coquille St Jacques (qui n’est toutefois pas un poisson).
Source : Ifremer
A strange,never-before-seen jellyfish with a distinctive stomach that looks like a red cross has been discovered inside a volcanic structure off the coast of Japan. The umbrella-shaped jellyfish has a diameter of around 4 inches (10 centimeters) and is transparent, except for a bright red cross, which is visible when the creature is viewed from above. The jellyfish is so rare it has only ever been spotted twice. https://www.livescience.com/animals/bizarre-jellyfish-with-bright-red-cross-for-a-stomach-discovered-in-volcanic-caldera-off-japan
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...
Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible.
Likely impact on Southern Hemisphere is it will get even hotter and wetter.
Why 2°C is Too High For The Cryosphere
Cryosphere Science & Global Climate Negotiations:A Joint Event with the Cryosphere Pavilion at COP28https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crVBzcc2IUw #Cryosphere#PermaFrost#Oceans#Methane#SeaIce#Glaciers
Norwegian salmon farms gobble up fish (from coastal West Africa) that could feed millions in Africa: Blue Empire Report (news.mongabay.com)
Norwegian salmon farms are taking huge amounts of wild fish from West Africa, mining the food security of the region, according to a report from the U.K.-based NGO Feedback. The analysis comes as the industry faces a wave of public opposition after revelations of high mortality rates and the sale of fish deemed unfit for human...
Mysterious oil spill sparks national emergency in Trinidad and Tobago (edition.cnn.com)
An overturned vessel has caused a huge oil spill along Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline, in what the Caribbean country’s prime minister described as a “national emergency” on Sunday. The spill occurred on February 7 off the southern shores of the Tobago Island, according to the country’s Office of Disaster Preparedness...