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Hi! Long time no talk (: We’ve been on a posting hiatus while we finish our nonprofit paperwork & make some internal changes on how we want to engage via social media. New things are coming! Be on the lookout for a post later this week & as always thanks for sticking around 🩵🌊
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Happy (belated) #WorldOceanDay! The UN officially recognized this day of ocean celebration in 2008, though it has existed since 1982. Its goal was and still is to raise awareness on how much the ocean provides for us! We hope you find a way to celebrate our magnificent resource(:
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Use your voice & your typing skills to tell Congress: stop the administration’s budget plans to cut more funding for the #EPA, #NOAA, #USGS, and #NPS. The link leads you to a form that has a pre-loaded message to congress; please click & submit to help protect the #ChesapeakeBay
ALT Sibly holds up a cute little crab plushie
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#Nutrientpollution happens when rainwater washes fertilizer and animal waste from farmlands and into streams, rivers, and eventually the #ChesapeakeBay. This study looks at the effects of this pollution on #easternoysters (#Crassostreavirginica) from 2000-2019
ALT An adult oyster reef sits in the green-blue water of the bay, with pink macrofauna growing around it.
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Pollution is getting worse, such as the recent #PotomacRiver #sewagespill
Research: The Impact of Nutrient Pollution on Crassostrea virginica populations in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed between the Years 2000 and 2019. Tyagi, 2025. Photo: Oyster Recovery Partnership
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This led to weakened shells and rises in parasites in oysters, and #eutrophication; a steep increase in nutrients that leads to overuse of oxygen by bacteria in the water, creating #hypoxic (no oxygen) dead zones, killing organisms unlucky enough to live there, oysters included
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#TheChesapeakeBay is home to a multitude of organisms; #oysters, submerged aquatic vegetation, otters, fish, seabirds, and many kinds of invertebrates. The bay is a complex #ecosystem that usually functions beautifully and keeps the bay waters clean, clear, and healthy
ALT Info slide shows a graphic depicting a healthy bay ecosystem, and an unhealthy bay ecosystem, and repeats the words in the instagram post caption.
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However, for many years now, the bay has faced negative impacts from humans, including #pollutionrunoff from farms, factories, and roads, #overfishing, and #habitatdestruction, which has knocked the ecosystem off-balanced, and unhealthy
Bay Ecosystem Graphic: OceanTippingPoints
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Hoping for the is important for the #climate movement, encouraging people to take action and to keep the movement going. For some people though, hope comes from denying the problem of #ClimateChange. This leads to low levels of engagement on climate issues though
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People who worry about climate change that take action to do something about it also report feeling more #hopeful. This is thought to be because they are more aware of the #progress being made and because they are able to find #community to work towards solutions together
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People who feel hopeful about #ClimateChange find hope in cognitive sources, meaning that they find hope in understanding the work being done to counter climate change, see silver linings in the climate problem, and refuse to lose hope despite how overwhelming this issue can feel
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A review that came out in January of this year found that in 2025, for the first time ever, the #EuropeanUnion produced more #electricity from #CleanEnergy sources than from #FossilFuels. And another report found that India and China had a drop in #coal power generation!
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It’s so important to see hopeful stories like these, and not just the ones that remind us how much work we have to do. Not just for our #MentalHealth, but also because hope is critical to sustaining meaningful action for the #environment
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This is the first time this has happened in these two countries simultaneously, which has big implications since these countries have the largest populations in the world and produce a large proportion of #GlobalCarbonEmissions
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And with every day that passes, we’re nearing the edge of large-scale environmental disaster. The time to reverse climate impact is dwindling; something needs to change, or else it will be too late.
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This was before we even had advanced technology to predict accurate climate models. So why bring this to your attention?
Because for over two decades, scientists have been warning us of the negative impacts that climate change would cause.
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In this 28-year old paper, researchers predicted that heavier rainfalls and increases in tropical cyclones were very likely to increase with the surge in global temperatures
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The earth is crying. Dramatic, we know, but it’s true. As climate change has continued to increase global temperatures, weather patterns have become unpredictable and aggressive. Storm surges, heavy rainfalls, massive cyclones, droughts & more have begun to rage across the world
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This results in stronger winds and extremely heavy rainfalls, both of which lead to intense flooding, as we’ve seen this week in Hawai’i.
Source: @environmental_defense_fund edf.org/climate/how-climate-…
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