DON’T FORGET THE DEEP SEA THIS EARTH DAY🌏

This space is home to species & environments that, like on land, we are yet to fully understand but still deserve protection

Let's strive for a healthier planet from the top of our mountains to the bottom of our ocean
#EarthDay

📸NOAA

'Deep sea mining is a relic of the cowboy economy almost 60 years on ... the ISA secretariat is engaged in unjustifiably heroic efforts to force this through, under pressure from just one or at most a handful of member-states'

Impressions of a scientist:
impact.economist.com/ocean/ocean-an…

ANNOUNCING for #EarthDay the world premiere of the LEGO stop-motion masterpiece of the early moments of Limiting Factor Dive 115 to Challenger Deep!

'We have a lot of work to do for our planet.'
-- Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦 & Victor Vescovo

#EarthDay 2024 cc Lego Women of NASA Maia Portell Weinstock ✨

“The Anthropocene’s future as an informal time period is assured,” Elizabeth Kolbert writes. “It’s too apt—and too important—a term to be abandoned.” nyer.cm/giiiSWd

🙏 (and wow)

Want to know the secret to a long life? A slow metabolism and cold water – at least that's what works for this Greenland shark. Photographed in the Arctic Ocean, it is believed to be 393 years old! 🦈🦖👏

📸: Julius Nielsen

It’s okay if you don’t feel sparkly today. It's cool if you're not feeling it. Step back for a bit. There’s just one problem.

You already sparkle. Maybe you don’t see it, but others do. You belong, just like every star in this star cluster belongs.

Today Our Ocean Greece, the governments of Palau🇵🇼, Costa Rica🇨🇷, France🇫🇷, Spain🇪🇸, Vanuatu🇻🇺, Chile🇨🇱, Germany🇩🇪, Ireland🇮🇪 and Brazil🇧🇷 reiterated their support for a pause on #DeepSeaMining and called on all countries to join the fight before it's too late for our ocean🌊

Snow leopard captured on camera trap. That this guy is out there living his best life in the wild makes me happy.

A beautiful day in Austin TX brings out the Deep Time humor.

First Alvin dive! Dr. Mandy Joye 🇺🇦 🌻 and Carmen Millan-Motolinia went down 3700m below the surface to collect these beautiful cores that Silvia from Roland Hatzenpichler lab Brett Baker and I were able to characterize! Now we are ready to sequence them onboard R/V Atlantis
#GulfofCali2024

NASA with the most beautiful image of the solar eclipse #Eclipse2024 🥇

Baked a batch of solar eclipse cookies. Such a creative idea thanks to BBC Sky at Night Magazine. #SolarEclipse 2024 #SolarEclipse #BungalowBaking

Masayo Fukuda, contemporary master of kirie, or Japanese paper-cutting, crafting hyper detailed creatures from single sheets of paper #WomensArt

🪸🐠 Have you ever seen a reef as beautiful as this? Established as a marine sanctuary in 1982, #ApoIsland , Philippines is now ranked in the top 100 dive sites in the world.

📲 Find out why #MarineProtectedAreas are so important: go.whoi.edu/mpa

📸 by Ciara Willis © WHOI

It's “ocean”, not “oceans”. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

An important read if you are concerned about the health of our ocean. A few companies and governments are seeking to rush regulations for a new deep sea mining industry. Not often that Nature editorial team takes such a strong stand!

If you've never seen a reindeer posing under an aurora before, today is your day.

Panda cub tantrum 😂

Another idea: stop eating octopuses