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I'm happy to share that this week I started a new role as the Director for Ocean Policy at the White House Council on Environmental Quality!
But sorry to say this account will be on hiatus for the time being - see you all on the other side.
And of course, check out the Ocean Justice Forum for a frame on how to do effective, just, and equitable ocean policy.
If you want to know about solutions to the plastic crisis that are effective and just, you can do no better than to follow @AzulDotOrg.
Putting this here since I'm getting a bunch of incoming reporter queries: I have nothing else to say on the Ocean Cleanup that I haven't already said over the past 10 years. My last interview on it is here (TLDR: they are trawl fishing).
https://gizmodo.com/the-dream-of-scooping-plastic-from-the-ocean-is-still-a-1847890573
Australia has the shiniest ants.
This is a worker of Rhytidoponera aspersa carrying eggs among her colony's nest sites.
#Rhytidoponera #bling #insects #ants #Australia #photography
Incredible news today from Alaska!
"EPA may have dealt final ‘nail in the coffin’ to Alaska’s Pebble Mine. To protect salmon, agency issues a rare veto to a mammoth copper and gold project near Bristol Bay, adding to a prior rejection from the Trump administration."
fruit toots
Alex Wild
Michael Steeber
