A nitrogen-fixing organelle, or “nitroplast,” has been identified in a marine alga. This discovery sheds light on the evolutionary transition from endosymbiont to organelle.

Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/6yX

Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record as footage shows damage 18 metres down theguardian.com/environment/20…

Complex deep-sea expeditions try to size up seabed mining impacts | PNAS: testing a nodule collector from Belgian mining company DEME pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Find out why, in #OceanDecade24 week, POGO members are highlighting the need for sustained, operational, and coordinated biological observation of the ocean:

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While I am a big fan of ⁦EU @EU #EU Tweeting for Charity!⁦EU @EU #EU Tweeting for Charity!_MARE⁩ ⁩ I was pleased to hear ⁦Dr Imogen Napper⁩ put keynote speaker Kestutis Sadauskas back on track ‘we cannot rely robots cleaning the ocean of plastic’ this kind of techno optimism is a distraction that brings false hope!

Marine heat waves are becoming more frequent, but what does that mean for fish? #Read the latest from Dr. Daniel Pauly in the @Oceana blog  oceana.org/blog/ask-dr-pa…

Congratulations! Looking forward to collaboration and successes.

It's Invertebrate of the year 2024 at The Guardian celebrating the spineless wonders of our world
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I nominate the common octopus, and here's why
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The #OceanDecade is above all thousands of ocean professionals exploring, researching, and safeguarding our ocean.

On April 10-12, this global community will meet at the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference to discuss the science we need for the ocean we want: oceandecade-conference.com

Who visits the coast, what do they do, and what do they experience? 🤔
Find out about the effects of the Belgian coast 🌊on human health 🩷 with our newly published survey-data 👇👇👇
nature.com/articles/s4159…

New study finds that adult female southern right whales visiting Cape Town are 25% lighter than 30 years ago, and are giving birth less often nature.com/articles/d4414…

Congratulations Ruwanthie Gajadeera & Elise Guillaume on being selected as the new #EMBracingtheOcean #artistsinresidence . Their projects explore global trade, textiles & Sri Lankan marine life & the interplay of psychology & ecology through sound. Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdesywx4

Octopuses Are Highly Intelligent. Should They Be Farmed for Food? e360.yale.edu/features/octop… via Yale Environment 360

Who is talking straight with you on climate? Look at what they are emphasizing. Is it deep and immediate cuts in fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions? Or is it 'geoengineering' and 'carbon capture' and promises of new energy technology that simply kicks the can down the road?

Planet is warming ~0.03C/year. Aerosols (see below) account for ~1/8 of that, i.e. ~0.004C/year. La Nina/El Nino transition led to ~0.5C warming during past year, 100 x as much warming as aerosols.

It is absolutely absurd to attribute the warming spike to aerosols.

IPCC climate model projections compared against latest (Berkeley Earth) global temperature observations (via @Hausfath). We're seeing the predicted steady warming.

The warming will continue as long as carbon emissions continue. That's entirely up to us.
#UrgencyAndAgency

Congratulations! “Our findings reveal potential health implications of sea spray aerosols exposure”

‘Hoovered’ up from the deep: 33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters theguardian.com/environment/20…

Auguste Piccard: topgeleerde, pionier en stripheld vliz.be/testerep/nl/20…