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Seen David Attenborough's film Ocean? Track countries' progress in signing and ratifying the High Seas Treaty, needed to protect 30% of the oceans.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/map/
Here's Europe:
orange = signed only,

High Seas Treaty Ratification Map
At least 60 countries must sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty for it to become international law. Follow progress and see who has signed and ratify the treaty on the world map.

I can’t quite decide whether you’re a troll, a bot, or simply dim. https://gotosocial.social/@oceane/statuses/01JXMV509DBD2BMFWVXJAVJHP0

Post by Les antibiotiques causent l’autisme, vaccinez-vous, @oceane@gotosocial.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.al Please do not share opinions as if they were facts. That’s disinformation.

New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses #Europe

New simulations show how much colder European winters would get if AMOC collapses
A pair of meteorologists in the Netherlands has used new simulations to show just how cold many of Europe's cities could get if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) were to collapse due to global warming. In their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, René van Westen and Michiel Baatsen developed a climate model based on a range of ocean temperature changes that could arise due to global warming.

I noticed that OpenStreetMaps somehow lost Lake Michigan, so I went investigating. Apparently back in April somebody accidentally changed it from a "lake" to a "school" and it's taking months to be fixed across all regions/renderers.
https:/…

#OrganicMaps wurde geforkt, weil es Probleme mit der Transparenz und den Finanzen zu geben scheint. Das neue Communityprojekt heißt #CoMaps #OSM

CoMaps
A community-led fork of Organic Maps. Reinforced with commitment to transparency, privacy and being not-for-profit.

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling…

The vast majority of the plastic flotsam and jetsam in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (the North Pacific Garbage Patch) consists of discarded fishing gear.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorte…

Buchempfehlungen für den Sommer - ein letztes Mal mit Gert Scobel
#Bücher #Sommer #LeseTipps

Buchzeit - Lektüre für den literarischen Sommer
Gute Bücher für den Reisekoffer und den heimischen Balkon von Barbara Kingsolver, Ocean Vuong, Twan Eng Tan und Ralf Rothmann.

Pacific Ocean life at risk from noisy deep-sea mining
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-pacific-ocean-life-noisy-deep.html

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/global-ocean-acidification-has-passed-safe-planetary-boundary-threshold-study/

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study
A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key planetary boundary and posing serious threats to marine life. Ocean acidification is caused when excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting from human activities like burning fossil fuels, dissolves in seawater, forming carbonic acid that increases the water’s […]