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WHAT IS AQUAPONICS? Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system integrating aquaculture with hydroponics. Nutrients from fish waste feed plants instead of chemical nutrients. Aquaponics is used around the world and becoming an increasingly popular way to increase food security.

Flies like to play and have fun like other animals, according to a fascinating new study: Scientists observed fruit flies playing by spinning on disks. Some preferred this over eating. #AnimalBehavior #Flies #PlayfulInsects #Entomology #ScienceDiscovery #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

📢 "We must take this news seriously." The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators! Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇

🚫 Have you made the Species Pledge? Reverse The Red are asking organisations to make a Species Pledge for actions they're undertaking to reverse the decline of threatened species by 2030. Make your pledge by #ReverseTheRedDay on 7 Feb👇 https://www.reversethered.org/reverse-the-red-species-pledge

El Salvadorans Protest New Mining Law The new mining is expected to pollute rivers and water sources for much of the country. www.telesurenglish.net/hundreds-of-...

As rising sea levels and #climatechange induced storms hit coasts, one threat often flies under the radar: sewage pollution. This is a human health issue and has profound environmental consequences, say Tanvi Oza of WaterAid Australia and WCS's Amelia Wenger. 🌏 therevelator.org/climate-chan...

Amphibious 'Super Scooper' airplanes from Quebec, Canada are picking up seawater from the Santa Monica Bay to drop on the Palisades Fire

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❌ BREAKING NEWS ❌ 1/4 of freshwater animals are at risk of #extinction‼️ The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date has revealed that 24% are at high risk of extinction, according to analysis published in Nature today. 👇 shoalconservation.org/global-fresh...

This is also AI. Beware of impersonation of loved ones claiming to be compromised, perhaps asking for money. I suggest creating a code word for close family to verify communications.

A new type of parasitic crustacean has been reported in Taiwanese waters. It has a curious method of survival and prefers to live on black coral, pointing to how nature sometimes stuns us with hidden relationships beneath the ocean’s surface. #MarineParasite #BlackCoral #SynagogaArabesque

Will miners finally start harvesting metals from the seabed in 2025? The international community seems no closer to an agreement on code for deep-sea mining in international waters and the impasse may lead to acting unilaterally www.newscientist.com/article/2460... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Juvenile Yellowtail Damselfish (Microspathodon chrysurus) are always a challenge to photograph. They live in habitats of high complexity and swim very fast in and out of cracks and holes on the reef. But when you get a good shot, you can see that they are simply stunning.

Our latest online newsletter, Endangered Earth Online just dropped yesterday. You're not going to want to miss this edition full of some good news for a lot of species. Check it out and be sure to sign up so you never miss out on our latest in conservation updates. ⬇️

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Mysterious Frozen Lake a Time Capsule From Millions of Years Ago A living time capsule frozen in the depths of Lake Enigma in Antarctica contains a unique ecosystem that has been isolated from the rest of the world since its surface permanently froze. www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-f...

Do you want to report on California’s most pressing environmental issues? Mongabay is looking for a Staff Writer to produce stories on high conservation value landscapes, natural resource governance, and development pressures. APPLY NOW: mongabay.org/opportunity/...!

“If there is a consequence of… the Caviar Queen & her imitators scarfing down millions of sturgeon eggs a year, it is blissful ignorance of the living, wild animal that made those eggs possible.” Loved this Paul Greenberg / @hakaimagazine.com meditation on caviar. hakaimagazine.com/features/cav...

Biodiversity is declining at every level and in every region. The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment highlights critical links between biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate, and shares solutions to tackle these environmental crises. #IPBES11 info: www.ipbes.net/node/85582

BABY CORALS NEED NATURAL SOUNDSCAPE Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed an underwater audio system that helps coral larvae to choose their permanent home. spectrum.ieee.org/underwater-a...

The “clean and healthful environment” enshrined in the Montana Constitution includes the right to a “stable climate system” and that Rikki Held and her 15 co-plaintiffs have demonstrated “a sufficient personal stake” in that right. montanafreepress.org...

NEW LOACH DISCOVERED IN BORNEO Kapuasia falaris, a loach with a distinctive and striking colour pattern have recently been collected in the Barito drainage of Borneo. Borneo is home to many unique fishes found nowhere else. Tragically, too many are becoming extinct before they are even known.

Pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, was just uplisted from threatened to endangered under the ESA. As an #endangeredspecies, the coral automatically gets certain protections including prohibitions on importing ➡️ bit.ly/3DsFzIk

AQUATICA CHATBOT UPDATED Our all things aquatic chatbot, Aquatica, has been trained with data on most every known fish species. You can ask it almost anything related to aquaponics, aquariums or fish-keeping. It is being steadily expanded and will be kept up to date. aquaponics.pro/ask

🚨 NEW SPECIES ALERT 🚨 from MARE (Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre). 🌍🧪🐟 www.mare-centre.pt/en/new_escal...

The biodiversity, climate, health, water and food crises need to be addressed together rather than regarded as separate issues, urges a major report. #biodiversity www.newscientist.com...

Good news❗️ Six Critically Endangered Mekong Giant Catfish — one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish — were caught and released in Cambodia recently in just a few days, offering new hope for survival of the species. 🇰🇭 #ConservationOptimism abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Save the Eastern Hellbender! U.S. Fish & Wildlife is finally proposing to list the Eastern Hellbender salamander (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) as endangered. Please submit your comment via the instructions at www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...

Koi = Aquatic Puppies? Anyone who keeps koi may notice that they are a lot like puppies. Intelligent, friendly, curious and always hungry.

Do you ever wish you could be a fish?

The 4th update from Chair of 'Plan G' – the initiative to save the highly threatened Goodeinae family of Splitfins in Mexico – Michael Köck's European tour of zoos, museums and aquaria to engage and fundraise for the programme. Stuttgart 🇩🇪 – Caen 🇫🇷 shoalconservation.org/michael-kock...

Critters Are People Too The UK legally recognizes that all vertebrates (mammals, fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles), cephalopod molluscs (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses) and decapod crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns) are SENTIENT. Abusing them is a crime.

FISH INTELLIGENCE Research and experience shows that fish are intelligent and sensitive beings. They have distinct personalities, form social bonds, experience emotions, feel pain and need a stimulating environment. Their cognitive abilities often match or exceed other vertebrates.

My latest piece on #deepseamining theconversation.com/deep-seabed-...