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jocoumbe.bsky.social
Megaphone for the ocean. Still going. Communications Director, Blue Marine Foundation. Trustee, Cornwall Wildlife Trust. Guardian alumni.
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Does it get more Christmassy than sitting on the GWR to London frantically writing Christmas cards…?! 🎄🎄

Our seabirds are in trouble. ❌ The Solent Seascape Survey project team and partners are working to help their populations thrive once more in the Solent. Watch our new #film ‘Keeping Britain’s rarest #seabirds safe 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-xw...

“This is an advocacy series in disguise – and a necessary one.” Congrats to @inkacresswell.bsky.social James Hobeyborne and the whole team at Freeborne for this masterpiece on the ocean. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way. Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed. The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river. 👇💪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#NEWS: Scientists discover world’s largest #coral in the southwest Pacific #Ocean 🪸 The mega coral is about the size of five tennis courts and is 34m wide, 32m long and 5.5m high and has grown over a span of three centuries. Read more in Nat Geo 👇 www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

An absolutely fascinating Media Confidential with @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social and @arusbridger.bsky.social about the boom of disinformation on new media and its affects on not just individuals but society as a whole. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

#ClimateCrisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal Exclusive: Stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity #COP29 Story by me Data @carbonbrief.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And so Jurassic Antarctic Park was born… First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest Existed Near South Pole www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-a...

The #BBNJ Treaty can be a climate solution! As world leaders gather at #COP29, countries must incorporate the Treaty’s protections into their National Adaptation Plans, strengthening ocean-based climate action and reinforcing commitments to climate resilience.

Among the trolls. @mariannaspring talks to @lionelbarber and myself about the murky world of dis- and mis- information on the latest @mediaconfpod mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

The brilliant Cornwall Wildlife Trust is looking for a Partnership Fundraising Officer www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/partner... #jobs

All brits: Come to 🦋, Re-find all the journalists, Re-follow the weather @metoffice.bsky.social, And relax..

@emilybell.bsky.social knew I’d find you here x

Let’s start again, then, shall we?