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We have been m.i.a for a while because of work, life and such. But new clean ups and collabs in 2023. Thank you for your support 🌱🌊

World’s largest seagrass ecosystem discovered in The Bahamas Beneath The Waves team suggests The Bahamas is home to the world's largest seagrass ecosystem, which is located in the Bahama Banks.

Meanwhile in Nassau 😍

Subscribe to get the super early bird discount! Did you know that 35% of microplastics in the ocean come from our washing machines? Introducing PlanetCare. The ultimate washing machine filter that captures microfibers before they go down the drain.

New publication involving ExeterMarine academics, highlighting the challenge of mismatch in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and MPAs. (62 authors, 36 species) 🐬🦈🐳

Read the paper below👇
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.897104/full

Summer is flying by! We are on our third summer camp week of the season 💪🏻 This week we have ages 7-9, our “Ecosystems Camp”! Today was Mangroves 🍃How many ecosystems do you think we’ll be going to this week?

This fish cruising through one of our coral tree nurseries is a Caribbean reef shark. For , let's dispel a few myths about these misunderstood animals!

🚫 Sharks are hungry man eaters looking for any chance to attack.
✅ Most “attacks” on humans are mistakes due to poor water visibility.

🚫 Shark fins are flavoursome, nutritious and offer medicinal properties.
✅ Shark fins offer no flavour or nutritional value. In fact, as top predators, sharks accumulate contaminants from their prey, such as mercury.

🚫 Sharks have no predators.
✅ The greatest threat to sharks are… us. Each year, tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins.

Shark Awareness day 🦈

Check out some links such as the one below 👇 to learn more about sharks and how amazing they are!

https://www.treehugger.com/reasons-appreciate-sharks-4867868

Sargass…ummm? 🤔

Commonly confused with , this brown or spends its life drifting at , unlike seagrass that lives rooted in the sediment. Traveling in dense pockets from the Sargasso Sea, provides natural and refuge for , , , and many other . Their air-filled structures known as pneumatocysts provide flotation while they travel with the . Similar to algae blooms, Sargassum blooms are influenced by leaching into the system, but are nontoxic. However, large blooms have the potential to form “dead zones”, meaning these mats block from reaching the seafloor and that need light to survive. The next time you are at the pay attention to how the air smells. If you smell rotten eggs, it is probably Sargassum. As the algae is rotting it releases gas and has been known to wash up in droves. If you’re interested, click the link below to check out the Satellite Based Sargassum Watch through USF to see this years’ bloom predictions.

http://ow.ly/W38A50JRWZW

SURVIVING DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ON THE BEACH
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/03coastal3.html

As longshore currents move on and off the beach, “rip currents” may form around low spots or breaks in sandbars, and also near structures such as jetties and piers. A rip current, sometimes incorrectly called a rip tide, is a localized current that flows away from the shoreline toward the ocean, perpendicular or at an acute angle to the shoreline. It usually breaks up not far from shore and is generally not more than 25 meters (80 feet) wide.

Rip currents typically reach speeds of 1 to 2 feet per second. However, some rip currents have been measured at 8 feet per second—faster than any Olympic swimmer ever recorded (NOAA, 2005b). If wave activity is slight, several low rip currents can form, in various sizes and velocities. But in heavier wave action, fewer, more concentrated rip currents can form.

When waves travel from deep to shallow water, they break near the shoreline and generate currents. A rip current forms when a narrow, fast-moving section of water travels in an offshore direction (away from the beach). Rip current speeds as high as 8 feet per second have been measured--faster than an Olympic swimmer can sprint! This makes rip currents especially dangerous to beachgoers as these currents can sweep even the strongest swimmer out to sea.

Because rip currents move perpendicular to (away from the) shore and can be very strong, beach swimmers need to be careful. A person caught in a rip current can be swept away from shore very quickly. The best way to escape a rip current is by swimming parallel to (alongside) the shore instead of trying to swim against the rip current back to shore, since most rip currents are less than 80 feet wide. A swimmer can also let the current carry him or her out to sea until the force weakens, because rip currents stay close to shore and usually dissipate just beyond the line of breaking waves. Occasionally, however, a rip current can push someone hundreds of yards offshore. The most important thing to remember if you are ever caught in a rip current is not to panic. Continue to breathe, try to keep your head above water, and don’t exhaust yourself fighting against the force of the current.

To protect we need to understand. Few people would associate the word Vulnerable with sharks, but the scientific world has already arrived at that conclusion.
The Vulnerable State of Sharks, is my most recent column for DIVER magazine.
Read the whole article by subscribing here: https://divermag.com/diver-magazine-digital-editions/

BREAKING NEWS: 13 Southern Resident killer whales have been declared "vulnerable" by WDFW due to their body conditions measured by SR3 between September 2021 to April 2022.

Out of the 13, twelve J and L Pod members are now in "poor condition" which puts them at a two-to-three times higher risk of mortality.

The twelve orcas in poor condition are:
J27 Blackberry (male, born 1991)
J36 Alki (female, born 1999)
J44 Moby (male, born 2009)
J49 T'ilem I'nges (male, born 2012)
J56 Tofino (female, born 2018)
L54 Ino (female, born 1977)
L83 Moonlight (female, born 1990)
L90 Ballena (female, born 1993)
L94 Calypso (female, born 1995)
L110 Midnight (male, born 2007)
L116 Finn (male, born 2010)
L117 Keta (male, born 2010)

The agencies are requiring commercial whale watch vessels to stay half a mile away from the vulnerable Southern Residents and urging all other boaters to keep away from them to allow them extra space to forage. We believe these measures are not enough. The last few years more restrictions have been added to commercial whale watching, and despite these efforts this population is still declining in health. It is clear that regulating whale watch vessels is not sufficient enough and more action and policy need to be taken to recover the food source, chinook salmon, in order to recover the SRKWs.

Over the upcoming days we will be posting Calls To Action and ways you can help urge for more to be done to help the declining Southern Residents. Keep an eye out on our social posts, and subscribe to our email to get immediate alerts.

Photo: J14s, J11s, J19s, and J17 matrilines - taken by Sara Montour Lewis with Our Wild Puget Sound

Good news 🎉

Polar Bears Found Surviving in Greenland Despite Lack of Sea Ice - EcoWatch Few animals represent the face of the Arctic like polar bears. The largest bears in the world, polar bears are excellent swimmers who spend more time in the sea than they do on land. Sea ice is the platform from which they hunt the seals needed to obtain the necessary calories to survive.

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Professors from UVA spotted a mammoth tusk while floating down the Koyukuk River near Coldfoot, Alaska. Adrienne Ghaly, a Research Specialist in Environmental Humanities, captured the photo and posted it to Twitter. According to Ghaly, UAF has been monitoring the tusk since it was exposed.

Happy World Oceans Day from the country with arguably the best ocean views 🌊🌴🇧🇸

Happy World Oceans Day!
Today is World Oceans Day, an international celebration to raise awareness of the importance of our oceans. This year's United Nations World Oceans Day highlights the theme Revitalisation: Collective Action for the Ocean.

You can join the free live event here: https://unworldoceansday.org/
Photo credit: Ingvild Vetrhus

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Soil from the moon used to grow plants for first time

We have a new environment called '𝗻𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰', thanks to all of the plastic in the oceans today.

Invasive Species Are Riding Plastics Across Oceans When debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan started washing up in North America, scientists knew they had a mystery—and a potential environmental disaster—on ...

There are so much things, locally and internationally that go on and majority of it goes under the radars. It is not a fact that you aren't paying attention or you lack the interest, some of these things are just hard to come by and it easily slips away. Especially when it comes to the media.

Here is a conference going on soon in Stavanger, something even I was going to miss. Had they not a photo of this lovely Chameleon.

Check out the link and see the themes and times! Hope to make it there! ⚓

UiS accelerating the green transition: UiS side conference at Nordic Edge 2022 On Wednesday May 11, you can hear about our activities and how we work with regional stakeholders to accelerate the green transition.

🎉 ONE WEEK TILL OUR TICKETS GO ON SALE 🎉

Why do we start selling our tickets so early? So those that are joining us from out of town have a chance to organise everything they need! They can book baby sitters, find flights, lock in their accomodation - whatever they need! We want to make sure they have AMPLE time to be able to join us on the day! 🙌 Oh yeah, and give you a heads up to start saving those pennies so you can go home with a cars full of wishlist plants! 🪴

P.S I just spent a few days visiting some of our vendors and LET ME TELL YOU NOW! Spring Plant Fest is going to be off the charts good!! 🤯🤤

This is where you can grab your tickets from when they go live next Sunday at 8pm: https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/plant-fest-spring-tickets-326830818777

Friendly reminder out there, for many other islands and countries :)

Please do your part. Help our Turtle’s Nesting not get confused if you are situated on beachside. Be mindful of nests and leave them alone and help report them, so we can put up a sign so others are aware to avoid.

Vennligst fortsett å følge underskriftskampanjen vår mens vi prøver å få mer bevissthet og en ny søppelkasse! 🤞

https://chng.it/CpH2PWhy