Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Nissan ‘shelves all-electric Qashqai plans’ as it cuts costs

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:55:08 +0000

Firm has been developing full EV version of its top-selling model in Europe at its plant in Sunderland

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Clean economy brings jobs and growth, says Miliband as £100bn invested in green energy

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:00:34 +0000

Energy secretary hails £100bn milestone in this parliament and says it is ‘only the start of what we want to achieve’

Ed Miliband has hailed a boost to UK jobs and growth as government data reveals that private sector companies have pledged more than £100bn in investment into the green economy so far in this parliament.

Offshore wind, solar power and the electricity grid make up the bulk of the planned investment, most of it between 2024 and 2031, which will go to all regions of the UK and comes from a mixture of UK companies and overseas sources including the EU and Japan.

Levitating penguins and predatory ants: Australian Geographic nature photographer of the year 2026 shortlist – in pictures

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:43:27 +0000

A hundred incredible images have been shortlisted by the South Australian Museum as part of this year’s Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition. In its 23rd year, the competition attracted 2,129 entries from 501 photographers in 17 countries. Entries were accepted covering content from across the ANZANG bioregion – Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea

Europe heatwave live: ‘London is cooking,’ says UN chief as UK forecast to hit 38C; France has hottest night since records began

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:28:48 +0000

António Guterres urges world to act on fossil fuels as continent braces for record-breaking heat; French PM to hold emergency meeting after heat deaths

A thousand years old and 20 storeys high: tracking down Taiwan’s tallest trees

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:30 +0000

The country’s biggest tree – named Heaven Sword of the Da’an River – is a carbon-storing behemoth hosting whole neighbourhoods of wildlife. But this and other giant trees are under threat

More trees can mean fewer birds, new study reveals

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:14:03 +0000

Trees planted to protect farmland from wind may not be the biodiversity boost many assume. In Japan’s wetland farming landscapes, shelterbelts benefited some birds but sharply reduced grassland and wetland species that need open space. Researchers found grassland bird abundance dropped by more than 70% near shelterbelts.

UK Met Office issues rare red weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:22:17 +0000

People in southern Wales and area of England from Kent and Sussex to Somerset and Birmingham urged to protect themselves from extreme heat

The UK’s Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for Wednesday and Thursday in the face of extreme heat and humidity.

It covers southern Wales as far west as Swansea, and an area of England that includes London and runs from the inland areas of Kent and Sussex, all the way across to Somerset, as far north-west as Birmingham, and as far north-east as southern Cambridgeshire.

Two children found dead in car in France as heatwave hits Europe

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:14:40 +0000

Number of countries issue alerts with sustained and rising temperatures expected to present danger to health

Two children aged four and two have been found dead in their family’s car in south-eastern France, the local prosecutor said, as a large swathe of western Europe suffers a ferocious heatwave forecast to shatter absolute temperature records.

From mobile jungles to shadow art: how Dutch people try to beat the heat

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:50 +0000

A national heatwave plan has been activated to help people stay cool during the Netherlands’ increasingly hot summers

Households in Amsterdam are being urged to hang their curtains outside their windows as health experts recommend simple hacks to moderate the heatwave rolling across the Netherlands, where homes were built for old-fashioned damp and coldish northern European weather.

The regenerative wealth of Blue Gold: lessons from Oman for sustainable ocean economies

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00220-2