The North Sea is the most anomalously warm body of open water on Earth today NOAA have classed it as a Category 4 (extreme) marine heat wave. What does this mean? - nutrient & oxygen disruption - disruption of marine food webs - harm to fisheries - extreme weather downwind

By far one of my favourite podcasts I’ve ever recorded! 🎙💙 Loved sharing more about my life on the ocean and diving into the topics of overfishing with Tiphaine for the Why We Care Podcast. Have a listen here!👇🏼 open.spotify.com/episode/0a6pOW…

📝 Less 1,000 signatures to go until the UK Gov must respond to the petition to #StopDeepSeaMining. We are urging the UK to support the growing call for an international moratorium on deep sea mining. Join us and sign the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6365…

Deep sea mining poses a grave threat to our precious ocean ecosystems, and all life on Earth ⚠️ Environmental Justice Foundation report exposes the devastating environmental impacts and risks associated with this destructive practice. Read now 👇 ejfoundation.org/reports/toward… #DefendTheDeep

SAVE THE DATE for the inaugural UK Seagrass Symposium!🌱 We are delighted to announce this exciting two-day event on 9th and 10th November 2023. Find out more and register your interest here! bit.ly/SeagrassSympos… #letstalkseagrass #seagrasssymposium23 #UKSS23

✍️ We're just 350 signatures away from 10,000 on the petition calling on the UK government to #StopDeepSeaMining. 📺 Watch marine scientist Charlie Young 🌊✨'s video explaining why the UK must act now to #DefendTheDeep. Sign to help us hit 10k today.👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6365…

A photo from yesterdays sail up the coast of #Tenerife ⛵️✨ Beautiful calm water and light winds 💨 Excited to be back and to explore these islands more. Lots of wildlife & conservation stories inbound! 🐳🌊 #sailing #canaryislands #voyagesofferal #marinebiologist

*BREAKING* Oil giant Equinor has invited MPs to an event in Parliament tomorrow. They’re seeking approval for their oil field #Rosebank, which will create climate-wrecking CO2 emissions without lowering our bills 🔥 Please tweet your MP urging them to reject this invite! ⤵️

Sometimes I feel angry that I was born into a world where the damage of previous generations was already being felt. But whilst we can’t change the past, we can change the future 🌎💚 #ClimateActionNow #ShowYourStripes #ProtectTheOceans

Food for thought: 5 megarich lost at sea when taking a look at Titanic shipwreck: world’s top submersibles, vessels and airplanes mobilized. An estimated 500 emigrants, incl 100 children, scaling from hunger and poverty lost in the Ionian Sea, minimal search efforts

🦈🦈New shark paper!! Juvenile survival and movements of shortfin mako and blue shark in the North Atlantic Ocean inferred from tag-recovery data, with > 800 recaptures in ~10 years onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🪸 On #WorldRainforestDay, we are focusing on the diverse coral forests that cover the seabed. Deep-sea ecosystems have biodiversity equal to tropical rainforests, but #DeepSeaMining would devastate them. 🇬🇧 Sign the petition today to #DefendTheDeep.👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6365…

I *hope* we're not crossing tipping points. We might not know for some time and & we may not know in our lifetimes. But it's very hard to look at these data & not be very worried. The past three days are *likely* to have been the warmest on our planet since records began. [1/3]

I don't think people realise the scale of birdflu death taking place in our tern & gull colonies. A healthy colony ten days ago may be dead today. I've never seen anything it.

Shoutout to Charlie Young Charlie Young 🌊✨, a champion of ocean activism ✊ Charlie is a marine scientist and presenter living full-time at sea ⛵️ From documenting wildlife, to investigating human abuses on the ocean, she is taking a #StandForOceans. 👇

🚨 Don't miss this 🚨 On Monday evening our director Hugo Tagholm will be joining the fabulous folks @EthicalHour to talk all things #PlanetOcean. How can we restore and protect the UK's seas so that they can thrive alongside our communities? Join us 👇 linkedin.com/events/7084877…

Back on the boat after a blissful two weeks holiday in France with family. No WiFi. Just pure offline joy. 🤍🇫🇷✨

A landmark moment in the fight to curb harmful #fisheriessubsidies. 🎣⛴️ China is the world’s largest subsidiser of fisheries and biggest exporter of aquatic products. This is a real David and Goliath moment. WTO Oceana UK Blue Marine Foundation wto.org/english/news_e…