Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Timmy the whale confirmed dead by Danish authorities

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:22:22 +0000

Humpback had been found deceased on Friday after rescue attempt criticised as ‘pure animal cruelty’

Timmy the whale has been confirmed dead by Danish authorities two weeks after the beached humpback was transported to the North Sea in a rescue attempt criticised as “pure animal cruelty”.

Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:10 +0000

The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense

Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. “My culture is a very dominant culture,” he said on MSNBC. “It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.”

Peacock ‘invasion’ of Italian seaside town ruffles feathers

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:00:08 +0000

With Punta Marina residents loving or loathing the incomers, ‘peacock rangers’ have been appointed to defuse tensions

Federico Bruni was sitting on a bench, eating a piadina romagnola (flatbread sandwich) and minding his own business, when a peacock strutted up in the hope of a few crumbs. High-pitched squeals emanated from the direction of a disused military barracks across the road. “That would be the call to love,” Bruni said. “The male peacocks are courting the female ones – we’re in peak mating season.”

Maldives diver dies in operation to recover bodies of Italians from cave

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:45:36 +0000

Mohamed Mahudhee suffered decompression sickness after searching for scuba divers in Vaavu Atoll and died in hospital

A Maldivian military diver has died during a high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four of the Italian scuba divers who drowned while exploring a deep underwater cave in the Maldives.

The diver suffered underwater decompression sickness after searching for the bodies of the Italians who, according to Italy’s foreign ministry, had “apparently died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft)”.

‘It didn’t seem real’: the Black mushroom hunters unearthing the US’s essential fungi

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:00:10 +0000

Enthusiasts say mycology offers connection, nourishment and a deeper tie to the land – and the African diaspora

On her typical walk in the woods in Newton, Massachusetts, something stopped Maria Pinto in her tracks. She spotted what appeared to be a glowing yellow figure with a metallic sheen among the pine needles on the ground. It was the first time Pinto was enthralled by a mushroom – the American yellow fly agaric, a poisonous fungus that is relatively common where Pinto lives in Massachusetts.

Florida tightens rules on capturing giant manta rays but stops short of full ban

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:00:07 +0000

Move follows upsetting viral video of ray being manhandled into unmarked boat in Florida waters last year

Wildlife officials in Florida will continue to allow threatened giant manta rays to be taken from the ocean, but have tightened their policies after a viral video showed a captured ray in severe distress, and a bipartisan group of politicians called for an end to the controversial practice.

Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO

admin — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying

The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.

Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:12:29 +0000

Climate and transport organisations warn ministers not to ‘sleepwalk into crisis’ amid Iran war oil and gas shortages

Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations.

Week in wildlife: super-rare bongos, ducks on parade and Marmalade the Thames seal

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:41:28 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:00:27 +0000

Butterfly Conservation poll is open until 7 June with choice of 60 species from small tortoiseshells to purple emperors

Will it be the rapidly disappearing former garden favourite, the small tortoiseshell? Or the poet John Masefield’s “oakwood haunting thing”, the charismatic purple emperor? Or perhaps the brimstone, the ultimate harbinger of spring?