Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Curb the cod, park the prawns: top chefs on how to swap out the ‘big five’ seafood

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:00:02 +0000

From moules marinière to scallop, bacon and garlic butter rolls, here’s how to cast your culinary net wider and embrace more sustainable species

‘You could see bones’: Families’ anguish over coastal erosion threat to Norfolk graves

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:00:01 +0000

Bereaved relatives say delays over risks at village churchyards are causing distress and call for council action

Families of people buried in graves vulnerable to coastal erosion say indecision over how to tackle the problem is causing them avoidable anguish about the final resting places of their loved ones.

North Norfolk district council (NNDC) has identified three church graveyards in the villages of Happisburgh, Trimingham, and Mundesley as being at risk of being engulfed by the sea in the coming decades.

EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities

It was hailed by campaigners around the world as a game-changing piece of legislation that would help stop deforestation.

But when a bullet-ridden version of the EU’s deforestation regulation, once supposed to be the crown of the Green Deal, finally limped across the legislative line this month, not even its architect was smiling, and one politician said it had been pretty much “dismantled”.

California snowpack gets a boost from series of December downpours

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:53:03 +0000

Water stored as snow during the winter months feeds waterways in the summer and supplies cities and farms

A series of December storms delivered a welcome boost to California’s snowpack, scientists said on Tuesday in a closely watched assessment of the state’s water resources for the year ahead.

Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8C recorded

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:13:20 +0000

Meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east

Record temperatures of almost 20C were reached in Iceland on Christmas Eve, the local meteorological office has confirmed.

Seyðisfjörður, a small town in the east of Iceland, hit 19.8C on 24 December. Average December temperatures in Iceland are between -1C and 4C.

UK’s warmest spring on record led to rise in songbirds breeding, data shows

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:38:19 +0000

Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term decline

The warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of some of Britain’s best-loved songbirds, data has shown.

Scientists said the dry and warm spring had provided a glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds. In the 2025 breeding season, from May to August, there were higher than average breeding successes for 14 species including the chiffchaff, garden warbler, whitethroat, coal tit, blue tit, great tit and robin.

‘Zack is a phenomenal leader’: Siân Berry on the Green party’s next steps as membership doubles

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:00:39 +0000

Since Zack Polanski took over as leader, the party has doubled its membership and its four MPs want to take on Reform’s anger and build community spirit

“Someone has to be out there making the narrative for social security. Someone has to fight the corrosive attitudes to people on benefits,” says Siân Berry, who has just finished her first year as a Green MP in the House of Commons.

Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:27:33 +0000

Species that is critically endangered in Britain is spotted in Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers in north-west

Young Atlantic salmon have been seen in three rivers in north-west England for the first time since 2015, marking a “significant environmental turnaround”.

The salmon species was declared critically endangered in Britain in 2023 but fish have been spotted in the Mersey, Bollin and Goyt rivers, meaning they have successfully travelled from the Arctic Circle to spawn.

‘There is a crack in everything’: capturing the dark of winter – in pictures

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:36:23 +0000

How do you photograph darkness? A question Sarah Lee considers with her work as the nights draw in: ‘I’ve always been drawn to photographing the darkness as the winter months draw in after the clocks go back and we head towards the solstice. I wondered why that was given that the world itself seems so dark at the moment. I realised this year that it is not the darkness I’m photographing, but, rather, the light. Always the light.’

Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:00:44 +0000

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’

Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakthrough supporters hope will be a catalyst for similar moves to protect bees elsewhere.

It means that across a broad swathe of the Peruvian Amazon, the rainforest’s long-overlooked native bees – which, unlike their cousins the European honeybees, have no sting – now have the right to exist and to flourish.