Temperature records broken in Germany, Denmark and Slovakia as Europe remains gripped by heatwave
After decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?
Seawater is seeping into Italy’s longest river as the waterway starts to run dry in the heatwave, hitting a farming heartland that produces the milk for Parmesan cheese.
The Po River has never fallen this low so early in the year, raising fears of a devastating drought in July in this corner of northern Italy.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
06/27/2026 - 04:02
06/27/2026 - 01:00
Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homes
Europe heatwave: latest updates
Families, including parents with newborn babies, are booking air-conditioned rooms in hotels to escape the UK heatwave, with companies reporting a surge in demand.
Data from the accommodation reservation website Booking.com shows that since 1 June, the share of searches using the “air-conditioning” filter has tripled across Great Britain coinciding with the latest heatwave in northern Europe.
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06/26/2026 - 21:50
Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps
Europe heatwave: latest updates
Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
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06/26/2026 - 15:38
Environmentalists and immigrant-rights advocates seek accounting of damage done by notorious detention center
While they welcome the recent closure of the controversial Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, leading environmental groups and their allies say they want an independent investigation into the environmental damage the facility inflicted on the surrounding wilderness during its 12 months of operations.
Those groups made that demand alongside immigrant-rights advocates and members of Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe at a news conference on Friday outside the entrance to the shuttered detention center, where the Friends of the Everglades (FOE) executive director, Eve Samples, condemned the camp as a “failure, an obscene waste of taxpayer dollars and an abuse of the Everglades”.
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06/26/2026 - 12:45
A new study reveals that goldfish can do far more than survive in the wild—they can fundamentally reshape freshwater ecosystems. Researchers found they cloud water, damage food webs, and hurt native fish populations, sometimes triggering major ecological shifts.
06/25/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00195-0
Trustworthy AI for the ocean: bridging the science-policy divide
06/25/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 26 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00223-z
Participatory mapping of maritime uses as a pathway to inclusive Marine Protected Area governance
06/23/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 24 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00222-0
Marine conservation lost in submission: the bottlenecks stalling the European Union’s protected areas pledge delivery
06/21/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00220-2
Resource-dependent economies should shift from finite extractive resources toward sustainable development pathways. This commentary frames marine natural capital as Blue Gold, in contrast to oil-based Black Gold. Using Oman as a case study, we show that integrating marine resources into national development strategies can advance diversification, resilience, and long-term sustainability when guided by ecological limits, effective governance, and value-based economic planning for sustainable ocean-based transformation in resource-dependent coastal economies worldwide.
06/20/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 21 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00218-w
Assessing the carbon market potential of global seagrass recovery
