Peter Rive

Grateful to see that ocean thermal stress is dissipating in the Caribbean after a challenging 2 years for #CoralReefs and the coral reef communities there. coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/5km/in… @CoralReefWatch

Banyan Tree in Lahaina smoldering at the base, but still standing. Just about the only thing left, other than the Lighthouse.

The heatwaves around the world are putting coral reefs in critical danger. An increase of just 1℃ can start a fatal bleaching process in corals. View live data and a livestream from a site currently experiencing a heatwave. highlights.aqualink.org/florida-heatwa… @CoralCityCamera @CoralMorph

Explore reefs worldwide with Aqualink! We have 5 live streams available on our Highlighted Sites page. All of them are from completely different places in the world and have links to their Aqualink dashboards full of live data. highlights.aqualink.org

Recent developments on this topic are highly concerning and depressing. If you zoom out to decades our planet looks like an exploding firecracker, we’re living it in slow motion. theintercept.com/2019/07/06/bra…

By 2100 the UN projects that 83% of the world population will live in Asia & Africa. Largest growth will be in Africa, with its share projected to increase from 17% to 40% in 2100. Our latest post: ourworldindata.org/region-populat…

This #data is an index showing cumulative climate impacts on #marine ecosystems ow.ly/YFpK50uDAQU

Co-founder David Lang had the opportunity to talk to Congress on the importance of ocean exploration. See the link below for the full hearing – bit.ly/2Z5Ej4u See David's full testimony here: bit.ly/2Z7qbI7 #SofarTrident #UnderwaterDrone #ROV #OceanScience

How do we change the dialogue of solving plastic waste from an environmental issue to one of economic opportunity? —@AprilHCrow

How tough is Trident? Enough to withstand a chomp from a great white shark. Important note: no sharks were harmed in the filming of this video. All shark footage was taken under guidance of scientists in the course of research. — bit.ly/2DTvLFP

Letter to the future, from 1912:

SCIENTISTS: “We’ve produced the first-ever image of a supermassive Black Hole, 55-million light years away” RESPONSE: “Oooh!” SCIENTISTS: “We’ve concluded that humans are catastrophically warming Earth” RESPONSE: “That conflicts with what I want to be true, so it must be false”

Underwater drone leader OpenROV & Spoondrift just merged into SoFar and scored $7M from SolarCity's co-founder to collect climate data techcrunch.com/2019/03/27/sof…

How solar energy spreads through communities electrek.co/2019/01/19/tes…

Please retweet if you think there should be a global ban on trophy hunting.

Atmospheric CO2 levels hit an 800,000-year high in 2016 bbc.com/news/science-e…

Cassini gave us Saturn, but also gave us Earth — as only deep space could reveal: Small. Frail. Lonely. Steeped in darkness.

Scientists call for immediate halt to consumer use of two widespread antimicrobial chemicals medx.cc/417340592

Earth surface temperature deviations from the means for each month between 1880 and 2017 [OC] ift.tt/2sSDZGk #dataviz

Two collided bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-1916.