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"Ocean temperatures are currently hovering around the levels they typically reach in late July — and they’re likely to continue rising as the summer goes on."
#Nature #Environment #Ocean #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Wave Foreshadows a Dangerous Hurricane Season
An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a yearChelsea Harvey (Scientific American)
Scientists tracked a young #whale's journey before he vanished. What they learned could help save his species.
#Bishop’s story, from birth to presumed death, shows the extreme danger facing right #whales, which could be extinct in 3 decades if they continue to disappear at the present rate. Bishop’s species is not doomed to #extinction …but time is running out.
#RightWhale #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Conservation #MarineLife #Ocean
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/north-atlantic-right-whale-species-challenges/
Blue Machine paperback incoming! UK publication is this Thursday, May 2nd. The hardback is such a very beautiful object, with the Spilhaus projection of the ocean in blue and gold, and it will still be available. But now there's one with a wave on front too.
If you don't yet know why the ocean matters, and why it's SO much more than a blue filler with fish in, this is for you.
'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic' -Tristan Gooley
#beach #ocean
Untitled I (2021)
Climate in uncharted waters as hundreds of millions of anchovies and sardines arrive off Irish coast
As global sea-surface temperatures continue to creep up to unprecedented levels, an acoustic survey has recorded three-quarters of a billion anchovies — traditionally found in the Mediterranean — shoaling off Ireland’s southern coast.Lynne Kelleher (Irish Independent)
People are starting to talk about deep sea mining. There are minerals down there - cobalt, manganese, nickel & more - potentially useful for creating a cleaner, greener electrified world. But taking them would cause huge damage to one of Earth's last great wildernesses. So what do we know about this trade-off? What lives down there? And should we cross this line? For Fully Charged, I went to the Natural History Museum in London to investigate:
Ocean Mining: A Gamble with Our Planet's Last Frontier? 🔋
Five thousand metres beneath the ocean's surface lie potatoe-shaped polymetallic nodules, containing millions of tonnes of critical minerals used in the tech...YouTube