Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:15:24 +0000

Nearly 60 countries back voluntary roadmaps to wean world off coal, oil and gas, at conference prompted by frustration with UN climate summits

Protecting lions and people: the biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:14 +0000

Moreangels Mbizah has blazed a trail in Zimbabwe as the first black African woman to found a conservation organisation in the country

The turning point for Moreangels Mbizah came in 2014. The conservation biologist was in Hwange national park in Zimbabwe, scanning the savannah to monitor the movements of lions for her zoology PhD research.

The GPS signal told her something was wrong. One of the lions had strayed into a nearby village, putting itself and the local community at risk. Mbizah and her team took off to try to herd it back into its habitat.

Revealed: British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industry

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:09 +0000

WPP accused of breaching its climate policy after report reveals firm linked to twice as much oil advertising as US rivals

A British advertising conglomerate has helped the oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP spend an estimated $1bn (£740m) on adverts in the US since the 2015 Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis, a report shows.

Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:09 +0000

The Welsh seaside resort has already seen a fall in offending and drug use, now a £20m investment and a fresh approach to building job skills is bringing new opportunities for under-25s

Killing time playing pool at the West Rhyl youth club, friends Sienna, 19, and Jake, 26, are unanimous when asked what a tour of the north Wales seaside town should look like. “The first place I’d show anyone is ‘Crackhead Circle’,” Sienna says.

Sounds of hope in Kent as more nightingales join dawn chorus

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:08 +0000

Elusive nightingale ‘doing well’ at Northward Hill, Kent, but experts cite concerns around loss of habitat

The dawn chorus at RSPB Northward Hill in Kent is a riot of sound: the melodic robin, the two-tone cuckoo, the whitethroat’s scratchy warble. Even the garbling geese and mooing cows from the neighbouring Thames marshes add to the symphony.

Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax? | Fiona Katauskas

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:00:25 +0000

Or is it the gaslight on the hill?

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Labor will back fossil fuels in the budget but the gas tax campaign isn’t dead yet | Clear air

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:13:13 +0000

Despite popular support for a 25% levy on gas exports, Anthony Albanese opposes it and there is little discussion about how to reduce our usage

Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:01:50 +0000

Rise in electricity demand in first quarter of 2026 was moderated by record output from rooftop solar

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What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’ | Martin Rowson

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:00:49 +0000

The ZSL has given us the word ‘zoo’, inspired artists and birthed a quarter of all Sumatran tigers. It has fascinated me since childhood – and the world since 1826

In the spring of 1826, two extraordinary things occurred in central London. The first was the death of Chunee the elephant. On 1 March at Cross’s Menagerie, upstairs in the Exeter ’Change on the Strand, Chunee was killed by a firing squad in the cramped enclosure where he’d been kept for the previous six years.

Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:01:45 +0000

A rescue operation to transport a young male humpback to deeper waters in the North Sea after it became stranded in the Baltic Sea off Lübeck a month ago is under way. The whale’s ordeal has gripped Germany but there are concerns it may be too fatigued and sick to survive

Stranded whale swims on to barge in German rescue attempt