🎉Following seven years of campaigning, we welcome this week's publication of the Seabird Conservation Strategy for Wales.
A huge thank you to all our members and supporters for helping to make this happen.
⬇️Full analysis and next steps here:
bit.ly/4sSmDIq
Nominations for #WSC4 Keynote Speakers are open! ✨🌊
Early-career voices encouraged!
📍WSC4 In-person & Hybrid: 7–11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Tasmania
🔗 bit.ly/3Jv71c9
#seabirds #ornithology
🧊 Arctic sea ice slowdown?
Ice hasn’t shrunk much since 2005 — but it’s still half the 1980s size. This pause is natural variation, not recovery. The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the global avg.
📉 Loss could soon accelerate fast.
🔗 Read Dr. @jamesgrecian.com's take: tinyurl.com/bdd8wmh6
You can also monitor...
+ Arctic temperatures: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
+ Climate model projections compared to observations in the Arctic: zacklabe.com/climate-mode...
+ Arctic sea ice thickness/volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global sea ice levels: zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2024. 2025 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between May and August by looking at the decadal average line positions.
🚨 Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)
• about 350,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,010,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,590,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,150,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
🌊 Happy #WorldOceansDay from SCAR!
Today, we celebrate the mighty Southern Ocean—a climate hero that deserves the spotlight.
To mark the day, we’re sharing three stunning data visualisations from a past EG-ABI competition, showcasing the impacts of climate change on the Southern Ocean.
This #WorldOceansDay, let's focus on our incredible marine megafauna 🌊
Delighted to have contributed to this important paper published in Science this week 📖
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@durham-university.bsky.social
🌍 🧪🪶🦑
📸 Footage freely available at OpenPlanet.org
#UNOC3
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
Led by @elliehonan.bsky.social we used miniaturised GPS loggers to track snow petrels during a year when sea ice hit record lows 📉
Antarctic's toughest birds are more adaptable than we thought foraging in open water as well as marginal ice 🧊
📖 doi.org/10.1007/s002...
🧪🦑🦉🌊
The @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social talks to
@amandavincent.bsky.social about her insights into the destruction caused by the controversial fishing practice of #bottomtrawling, which she explains is devastating #marinelife. @projectseahorse.bsky.social
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Screenshot of Nature opinion piece called Ocean fertilization: time to move on, published in September 2009. The authors are Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller & John Cullen. 🌊 "Adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don't need further research to establish that, say Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller and John Cullen."
Maybe this @johncullenocean.bsky.social et al. piece where they said — "adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don't need further research to establish that" — wasn't straightforward enough because this idea just won't die. 🤷🏻♂️
www.nature.com/articles/461...
We’re saddened by the Birch Glacier collapse and grateful for the scientists and authorities whose early warnings saved lives.
But this is more than local — it’s a global warning. 🔔
Glaciers are nearing collapse. Leaders must act now. tinyurl.com/3zxd7ny7
#ActOnClimate #GlacierCollapse #Blatten
Nearly 300,000 people in DRC used our Climate Risks Platform last year. Deadly floods this month show why. As leaders gather for #AfDBAM2025, we urge them to prioritise climate risks in decisions. The public is paying attention — will you? 🌍
lnkd.in/e-fdMGif #DRC #ClimateRisks
🎧 This morning, @BBCRadio4 opened the 8am news with a rare segment on the Arctic — covering climate change, rising tensions with Russia & China, and Norway Day pride on Svalbard.
They also interviewed Russia’s ambassador to Norway.
📻 Worth a 10 mins listen: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Why Spring Is Critical for Harp Seal Pups ❄️
Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web.
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c
Proud to co-curate “ICE – a vanishing good”, opening May 19, 17:00 at Landhaus II, #Innsbruck. My photos are featured alongside works by Birgit Sattler, Christoph Ruhsam from @austrianpolar.bsky.social & amazing Italian artist Gloria Rech. Hosted by Land #Tirol. On view until June 5. ❄️Please share!!
Finally on my way home from Lord Howe Island (albeit slightly delayed). It was a pretty difficult year. Lots of birds with lots of plastic - more than I think we've ever seen.
We keep saying "SURELY it can't get much worse" and then somehow it does.
We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️
Working link this time 👇
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Solidarity @zacklabe.com
Blue line graph time series of Arctic sea ice extent for every September from 1979 to 2024. There is a long-term decreasing trend and large interannual variability.
For decades, this iconic graph has provided clear observational evidence of one of the key indicators of global climate change - Arctic sea ice loss. It’s from the NSIDC "Sea Ice Index"
Now, support of this crucial data is at risk. A visual lens to our changing poles (zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...).
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
The search is on! 🔎
We’ve teamed up with @natgeopristineseas.bsky.social and our Partner in Fiji, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, to try to find one of the rarest seabirds in the world – Fiji Petrel.🐦
Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/05...
📷 Kyle McBurine/National Geographic Pristine Seas
Must-read @thebulletin.org article by Eric Morgan & Ralph Keeling: The Keeling curve, which has continuously tracked atmospheric CO2 levels for *67* years, has always been vulnerable to funding ebbs and flows—but under Trump II, is facing its most dire threat yet
thebulletin.org/2025/05/how-...
Visualization showing bars that correspond to temperature change in the global ocean surface from 1850 to 2024. There is interannual variability and a long-term warming trend.
➡️ Create your own climate change stripes for #EarthDay! showyourstripes.info
Here is how much the ocean surface is warming up... 🥹
Colossal squid captured on camera!!
Amazing work by @drmtaylor.bsky.social and team.
🧪🌊🦑
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🚨🐟🚨 By 2100, cold-water fish like cod, herring & haddock could decline by 10-80% in the North Sea due to the climate crisis, when modelled under high emissions scenarios. 📉❌ 1/3
@plymouthmarine.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Polar stereographic map of Arctic sea ice concentration trends in Aprils from 1979 to 2024. There are losses of ice in the marginal seas at the edges of the Arctic Ocean.
This time of year trends in sea ice concentration are confined to the very outer edges of the #Arctic Ocean. Losses of concentration are smallest in March and April (around the annual maximum).
Sea ice concentration = fraction of ice-cover (observed by satellite). More info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
What Donald Trump’s dramatic US trade war means for global climate action theconversation.com/what-donald-...
Animation of daily #Arctic sea ice concentration so far this year, which reveals how variability is confined to the outer ice edge during winter. It is particularly impacted by changes in weather conditions, such as through storm-driven wind and waves.
[Data from 3-km AMSR2 satellite]
