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Fantastic quotation about the #oceans at the entrance of the Australian maritime museum in Sydney which also houses the vessel in which James Cameron went down almost 11.000M in the Mariana Trench to the deepest point in the world’s oceans cc: @deepseadawn.bsky.social

Greenpeace Aotearoa has occupied a Government research ship in Wellington over deep-sea mining survey.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pZX_M833_oc

#stopSeabedMining #stopDeepSeaMining #oceans #Greenpeace

“The entanglement problem won’t go away on its own, and nobody wants whales to suffer for seafood. It just makes sense to actually use the pop-up technology that was created to solve this horrible issue,” said Ben Grundy-Hawley, #oceans campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria form biofilms on particles & dynamically transition between free-living and attached states with significantly different physiology

That impacts carbon release, thus suggesting a role in carbon export to the deep sea

@mitcee.bksy.social
#phytoplankton #biofilm #oceans

Latest marine heatwave and cold spell trends in the global oceans

Volkov, D. L., and Coauthors, 2026: Global Oceans. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 107, S168–S234, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS....

Decline in cold spells a indication of reduced vertical mixing due to stratification?

#climate #earth #oceans

A bacterial infection is suspected of killing hundreds of baby whales in the southern Argentine region of Patagonia, a marine mammal expert told AFP on Thursday.

#science #wildlife #oceans

Gannet Rock, Meelup Regional Park, Western Australia
#nature #oceans #photography

VesselAlert
Name: OCEANS
MMSI: 244820561
Callsign: PF4201
Type: Other
Flag: Netherlands
Seen: 25-Sep-2026 06:09:11 CEST
Distance: 60.5 nm
Signal RSSI: 0.0 dBFS
Ship AIS VesselAlert © kx1t - link

A Crisp, cool,
breeze blowing
#Whish,
Clouds and water
softly moving.
#Nights luminary
near the #horizon
#glistening
on the #oceans
surface,
making a liquid
path. I’m #hesitant
to rise captivated
by the #moons
presence.

#poetrycommunity #micropoetry #Emoetry #writingcommunity #sensewords

Marine protected areas aren’t as protected as you think
#Climate #Oceans

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Urge Congress to Reject Rep. Lawler’s Attack on North Atlantic Right Whales 🐋. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
#whales #rightwhales #wildlife #protectwildlife #oceans #oceanmammals #oceanlife #protectoceans