fishonareef
@fishonareef.bsky.social
Marine Scientist, GIS nerd, all things ocean. Loves to be in the nature. Hawaii is home.
Mahalo #MongaBay for writing a wonderful summary on the 2026 International Coral Reef Symposium in Auckland, New Zealand. Please share widely! news.mongabay.com/2026/07/cora...
Coral reef experts press on, with climate looming over international conference
AUCKLAND — Lest anyone think scientific conferences must be staid affairs, the International Coral Reefs Symposium closed with inspiration from none other than U.S. rap metal band Rage Against the Mac...
news.mongabay.com
432 PPT. You read that right. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-...
Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Reaches 432 Parts per Million
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego reported today that carbon dioxide levels at Mauna Loa Observatory reached 432.00 parts per million (ppm) in...
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One beautifully documented step forward, though the damage has been done. They broke it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
It Was One of DOGE’s Most Absurd Abuses. A Court Finally Exposed It.
Projects were deemed wasteful “because they related to Blacks, women, Jews, Asian Americans, and Indigenous people.”
slate.com
Yep. Pretty thorough assessment from an Australian perspective. This is open access. Enjoy the ride. open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...
The Accidental Unifier: How a Tangerine Wrecking Ball Glued the Fucking Planet Back Together
Donald Trump set out to make America great again. Instead, he made everyone else remember they've got each other.
open.substack.com
Yes, human use is not the only use - and all uses are interdependent.
Another heartbreaking 💔 reality of our generation in the Anthropocene: The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared emperor penguins officially in danger of extinction. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
theguardian.com
Climate change and ocean acidification are still the greatest threats we face as a planet community. Scientists and policymakers are still working on solutions. Project Drawdown (a personal favorite) has been growing this website tool that is helpful to everyone. Save this! drawdown.org/explorer
Drawdown® Explorer
We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.
drawdown.org
Anybody remember that Octopus fossil? Turns out it was an Nautilus. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
‘Oldest octopus’ fossil is no octopus at all, scans reveal
The research solves a long-running puzzle in the understanding of octopus evolution that has confused scientists for decades.
eurekalert.org
On this day in 1960, scientist Athelstan Spilhaus warns of the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere that could eventually melt the polar ice caps. allouryesterdays.info/2023/03/21/m...
March 22, 1960 - US Television warning of carbon dioxide build up, courtesy Athelstan Spilhaus… - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty three years ago, on this day, March 22, 1960, viewers of a major US news channel were informed about carbon dioxide build-up and its implications. “The Mysterious Deep” aired on March 22 and Ap...
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This is an amazing interview! Go watch it and enjoy the wholesome eloquence and shining truth from the very lovely James Talarico on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6mo ago
The estimated harm to marine mammals from training exercises is increasing x2 since 2018 why? This is excessive and unconscionable. The cost to species is unacceptable. www.kpua.net/2025/12/31/n...
New Navy Report Gauges Training Disruption of Hawaiʻi’s Marine Mammals
Over the next seven years, the U.S. Navy estimates its ships will injure or kill just two whales in collisions as it tests and trains in Hawaiian waters, and it concluded those exercises won’t signifi...
kpua.net
We need to do better. "Five of the seven breached planetary boundaries are linked to food systems. By transforming production and adopting a “planetary health diet,” we can halve food-related climate emissions and prevent millions of deaths" www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
EAT-Lancet 2025: Global food transformation needed to ease pressure on the planet and save millions of lives
Five of the seven breached planetary boundaries are linked to food systems. By transforming production and adopting a “planetary health diet,” we can halve food-related climate emissions and prevent m...
stockholmresilience.org
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
Now Vought is coming for NCAR because climate science is super inconvenient to their fictional narrative. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/n...
I worked at NOAA for 30 years, and know Trump’s attack on Colorado’s world-class science labs puts us all at risk (Opinion)
The research activities NCAR and the NOAA labs in Boulder conduct are predominant sources of authoritative weather and climate data, forecasts of extreme weather and predictions of changes in clima…
denverpost.com
Exciting new paper alert! Paper by UH Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) PhD candidate Paige Wernli looking at the spatio-temporal distribution of tiger sharks in Hawai‘i, including how it correlates to humpback whale occurrence. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Telemetry reveals potential mating aggregation behavior of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in Hawaiʻi - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Telemetry reveals potential mating aggregation behavior of tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in Hawaiʻi
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New paper alert: chemicals from plastics are endochrine disrupers to coral larvae affecting larval survival and settlement. Research from Keiko Williams and Bob Richmond, Kewalo Marine Lab, Hawaii news.mongabay.com/2025/12/anot...
Another threat to reefs: Microplastic chemicals may harm coral reproduction
As the sliver of a new moon shines over Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu, millions of tiny orbs ascend from a reef and swirl in the water column. These spheres are bundles of coral eggs and sperm responding to lun...
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This is pure gold. Thank you Senator Mark Kelly for your thoughtful and appropriate responses to the situation. Truly. Best spent hour in politics this year. I wish they didn’t put these photos on the cover of this video. It’s not like that. youtube.com/live/KS-tT5W...
LIVE: Sen. Mark Kelly speaks out about Trump and Hegseth's threats
YouTube video by MS NOW
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YAAASSSSS! We need more leadership that supports bike friendly, walk friendly communities. Automobiles should not be the default.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 8mo ago“We all benefit — regardless of our age, our gender, our ability, our socioeconomic status — when our cities are more balanced, where cars are not the dominant force.” An absolute honour for Melissa to be featured in the @nytimes.com’s Women in Leadership Special Report this week. nyti.ms/3XhNIWX
Look at this cute little death ball sponge! Deeo sea critters make me happy 💙 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
Researchers Discover 'Death Ball' Sponge and Dozens of Other Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures in the Southern Ocean
So far, two expeditions have yielded 30 new species—and researchers say there's more to come
smithsonianmag.com
Everybody should take a quick moment to read this short piece by a doctor who remembers what it was like before vaccines virtually wiped out a lot of preventable diseases. I can tell you it's visceral.
Deb Houry@drdebhoury.bsky.social · 9mo agoThank you Dr. DiMaggio for sharing your frontline experiences as a pediatrician treating children dying from diseases that we seldom see now because of vaccines
Vaccinate. I do not understand the fear mongering around these medical miracles. The quack that said vaccines cause autism was a charlatan and the paper was retracted. What I do see is a lot of scientific illiteracy. Antivaxxers can hurt a lot of other people. theconversation.com/canada-loses...
Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status – and the US will follow soon, as vaccination rates fall
Decreased vaccination rates have led to measles outbreaks in Canada and other countries.
theconversation.com
Excellent points here. It is about the bigger system. This is a challenging ($$$, 🕰️) but vital component to assessing success of reef restoration efforts, and why partnerships are important. Managers are more likely to have long term monitoring programs. theconversation.com/reef-restora...
Reef restoration shouldn’t just be about growing corals - but also bringing reefs to life, new study suggests
Most restoration programmes focus their efforts on increasing coral growth, but rarely ask whether the reef is actually functioning as a living ecosystem.
theconversation.com
A well articulated and utterly thorough examination of the influencer savior-centered film. No science here. www.drjackacooper.com/writing/shar...
Shark Whisperer is lying to you: a look into the harmful effects of Ocean Ramsey and shark influencers — Dr. Jack A. Cooper
Ocean Ramsey is undoubtedly one of the most well-known “shark influencers”, whose videos show her free diving and touching wild great white and tiger sharks as she swims right up alongside them. Those...
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"Rainfall from Melissa will be measured in feet". Jamaica is about to feel the effects of the climate crisis in a very real way. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Hurricane Melissa Approaches Rare Category 5 — Four Things To Know
Hurricane Melissa is on its way to Category 5 status after explosively intensifying. Here are 4 things you need to know right now about its strength, track, and impacts.
forbes.com
This is so incredible: measuring pH of seawater using the physics of sound! Science is cool! www.science.org/content/arti...
Ambient noise can track dangerous ocean acidification
Acoustic technique could make it easier to monitor threat to marine life stemming from rising carbon emissions
science.org
The Fifth Nat'l Climate Assessment is back up, fully functional, and no longer on a gov't website! Huge thanks to the Climate.us team for making this valuable resource easily available to the public. A big mahalo to Dr. Jane Lubchenco for sharing on LinkedIn nca5.climate.us
Fifth National Climate Assessment
The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the sc...
nca5.climate.us
