Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Week in wildlife: blue waterfowl, a rescued baby orangutan and a real-life Pikachu

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 06:00:23 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Prince William series to champion ‘dangerous’ work of wildlife rangers

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:00:21 +0000

Guardians will highlight bravery of ‘unseen, unheard and undervalued’ protectors of natural world, prince says

Wildlife rangers perform “one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet”, the Prince of Wales has said at the launch of a docuseries highlighting these “unseen, unheard and undervalued” heroes of the natural world.

William, who presents Guardians, a six-part series launching on Friday, said championing the protectors of the natural world was particularly special as he had met many of them on his travels.

NSW flooding: PM delivers climate crisis warning as damaging winds to strike flood-hit mid-north coast

admin — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:05:08 +0000

Anthony Albanese acknowledges home insurance now a ‘real challenge’ as government announces disaster assistance for 19 local council areas in NSW

NSW floods live updates: latest flooding news

New study reveals how competition between algae is transforming the Gulf of Maine

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:27:00 +0000

New research shows how rapidly proliferating turf algae are waging 'chemical warfare' to inhibit the recovery of kelp forests along Maine's warming coast.

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill, from tax cuts to mass deportations

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:46:31 +0000

All the key points laid out in the US president’s House-approved sweeping bill as it awaits Senate consideration

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:42:45 +0000

Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction

Environmental activists in Brazil have decried a dramatic rollback of environmental safeguards after the senate approved a bill that would dismantle licensing processes and increase the risk of widespread destruction.

Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whale habitat

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:55:30 +0000

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per cent.

AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:07:15 +0000

Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today

Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.

Revealed: three tonnes of uranium legally dumped in protected English estuary in nine years

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:00:33 +0000

Exclusive: expert raises concerns over quantities allowed to be discharged from nuclear fuel factory near Preston

The Environment Agency has allowed a firm to dump three tonnes of uranium into one of England’s most protected sites over the past nine years, it can be revealed, with experts sounding alarm over the potential environmental impact of these discharges.

‘Unprecedented’ marine heatwave hits waters around Devon, Cornwall and Ireland

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:27:36 +0000

Scientists warn of profound impacts as sea temperatures rise by up to 4C above average for springtime

The sea off the coast of the UK and Ireland is experiencing an unprecedented marine heatwave with temperatures increasing by as much as 4C above average for the spring in some areas.