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Peter Rive

@peterjrive

Working on Ocean data (@sofarocean), Emissions free coffee roasting (@realbellwether), and marine ecosystem monitoring (@aqualinkorg)

 San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2008
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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/prod… @CoralReefWatch
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Banyan Tree in Lahaina smoldering at the base, but still standing. Just about the only thing left, other than the Lighthouse.
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Aqualink@Aqualinkorg2 Aug 2023
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/flor… @CoralCityCamera @CoralMorph
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Aqualink@Aqualinkorg11 Jul 2023
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/
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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/…
On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against...

On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against...

Without action, the loss of another fifth of Brazil’s rainforest will trigger a cascading system collapse called “dieback” and release a carbon bomb.

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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-po…
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This #data is an index showing cumulative climate impacts on #marine ecosystems ow.ly/YFpK50uDAQU
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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
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How do we change the dialogue of solving plastic waste from an environmental issue to one of economic opportunity? —@AprilHCrow
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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
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Letter to the future, from 1912:
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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”
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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/so…

Ocean drone startup merger spawns Sofar, the DJI of the sea | TechCrunch

What lies beneath the murky depths? SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive wants to help you and the scientific community find out. He's just led a $7 million

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How solar energy spreads through communities electrek.co/2019/01/19/tesla…
How Tesla is taking over neighborhoods with solar energy

How Tesla is taking over neighborhoods with solar energy

Tesla has been betting on word of mouth to promote most of its products and solar has been no exception...

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Danny@doglab18 May 2018
Please retweet if you think there should be a global ban on trophy hunting.
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Atmospheric CO2 levels hit an 800,000-year high in 2016 bbc.com/news/science-environ…
Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016

Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016

CO2 in Earth's atmosphere jumped to a record in 2016, says the World Meteorological Organization.

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Cassini gave us Saturn, but also gave us Earth — as only deep space could reveal: Small. Frail. Lonely. Steeped in darkness.
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Scientists call for immediate halt to consumer use of two widespread antimicrobial chemicals medx.cc/417340592
Scientists call for immediate halt to consumer use of two widespread antimicrobial chemicals

Scientists call for immediate halt to consumer use of two widespread antimicrobial chemicals

A pair of chemicals—prized for their antimicrobial properties—rose to become superstars in industry. Triclocarban is used in various soaps, while triclosan additionally appears in thousands of items...

medicalxpress.com
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Earth surface temperature deviations from the means for each month between 1880 and 2017 [OC] ift.tt/2sSDZGk #dataviz
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Two collided bullets from the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915-1916.
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