Breaking Waves: Ocean News

A total hoot! Beautiful birds – in pictures

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:41 +0000

From fluffy owlets to rosy-hued flamingos, Claire Rosen’s portraits of live birds took her on a journey that touched on colonialism, wallpaper design … and chickens

Reduced physical activity due to global heating will lead to rise in health issues, study says

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:30:32 +0000

Researchers project that reduced activity could contribute to half a million additional premature deaths annually by 2050

Rising temperatures are making physical activity undesirable and even dangerous in many parts of the world, and as global heating worsens, it will further affect how much people are able to move.

Researchers analysed data from 156 countries between 2000 and 2022 and modelled how rising temperatures may affect physical activity globally by 2050.

The Guardian view on SUVs: London’s mayor is right to push back on supersize cars | Editorial

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:40:07 +0000

Huge vehicles are popular with drivers, but their wider impacts on road safety and the environment must be tackled

Trump’s war is bringing economic calamity to the UK – and another shock to our politics | Gaby Hinsliff

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:08:19 +0000

Hard choices lie ahead for Downing Street if higher fuel prices spark resentment and trigger a renewed cost of living crisis

Realtime pollution alerts needed on Windermere, campaigners say after boy nearly dies

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:00:23 +0000

Exclusive: Claire Earley’s son Rex spent six weeks in hospital after contracting E coli from contaminated lake

Realtime pollution alerts are needed across Windermere urgently, campaigners have said, as the mother of a seven-year-old boy who kayaked on the lake described how he nearly died after contracting a dangerous strain of E coli from contaminated water.

Claire Earley’s son Rex spent six weeks in hospital, and underwent two emergency operations, after a family kayaking trip on Windermere last August.

Replacing 1m petrol cars with EVs could cut Australia’s reliance on foreign fuel by 1bn litres a year

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Electric vehicles reduce exposure to global oil price shocks and shift energy consumption to electricity largely produced domestically, expert says

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Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:05:24 +0000

Recording of humpback whale from 1949 could also provide new understanding of how the huge animals communicate

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it is the oldest such recording known.

Africa particularly vulnerable as Iran conflict disrupts supply chains, say experts

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:03:00 +0000

Food production in many African countries depends heavily on fertiliser imported from the Gulf through the strait of Hormuz

Countries in Africa, where farmers depend heavily on imported fertiliser and a large share of household income goes on food, are particularly vulnerable to supply chain disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East, experts have said.

The conflict has drastically disrupted trade through the strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane not just for oil and gas but also for fertiliser, which is produced in vast quantities in the Gulf.

‘We cannot replace USAID, but we can do big things’: conservation plots a future without American money

admin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:18 +0000

The Trump administration’s cuts to biodiversity funding have imperiled species, habitats and the people who defend both. Now the world is seeking a new way forward

On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley paid tribute to the west African nation’s tropical forests – one of the places where, she said, “our fathers came / centuries ago, and planted our umbilical cords / deep in the soil”.

Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:00:28 +0000

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination