Rescue body says dolphin spotted on Thursday may be further disoriented by human interference
People have been urged to stay away from a dolphin spotted in the River Thames.
The common dolphin had been seen several times near Putney Bridge, south-west London, on Thursday, and had appeared to be “struggling with the tide”, but had not been seen since.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
08/03/2024 - 01:00
Centuries-old Montrose golf links falling into the sea and town at risk of flooding as coastal erosion accelerates
A beach in north-east Scotland is eroding rapidly owing to climate change, leaving a town at risk of flooding and its centuries-old golf links crumbling into the sea.
The Dynamic Coast report in 2021 studied the rate of erosion at Montrose and predicted that 120 metres would be lost over 40 years, an average of 3 metres a year.
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08/02/2024 - 12:29
Shifts in the Earth's continental plates that drove long-term changes in sea level set the stage for the evolution of the earliest animals on Earth, a study suggests.
08/02/2024 - 10:00
Study has found that the lake, which has lost 73% of its water, released climate-warming emissions
For years, scientists and environmental leaders have been raising alarm that the Great Salt Lake is headed toward a catastrophic decline.
Now, new research points to the lake’s desiccating shores also becoming an increasingly significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Scientists have calculated that dried out portions of the lakebed released about 4.1m tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in 2020, based on samples collected over seven months that year.
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08/02/2024 - 08:00
Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastline
The chough, a charismatic cliff-dwelling corvid, has bred in Kent for the first time in two centuries.
A young pair among eight birds released last year defied expectations to successfully breed this summer, making a nest on Dover Castle and rearing one chick, which fledged in June.
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08/02/2024 - 05:00
Environmentalists want DoJ to hold fossil fuel firms accountable and for presumptive nominee to lead charge
If elected president, Kamala Harris should take on the fossil fuel industry for its history of spreading climate disinformation, environmentalists say.
Forty US states and municipalities have sued big oil for allegedly spreading climate disinformation. For years, climate advocates and some lawmakers have said the Department of Justice should file a similar case.
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08/02/2024 - 02:00
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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08/02/2024 - 01:01
So far this year officials warnings have been issued for 25 floods, and China is only halfway through its peak flood season
Halfway through the peak flood season, China has already experienced the highest number of significant floods since record keeping began in 1998, and the hottest July since 1961, authorities said on Friday.
This year so far it has recorded 25 “numbered” events, which the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources defined as having water levels that prompt an official warning or are measured at a magnitude of a “once in two to five years” event.
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08/02/2024 - 01:00
Ten stores will raise freezer temperatures by 3C to -15C amid pressure for move away from long-held industry standard
Morrisons is testing out raising the temperature of its freezers by 3C in the first move by a UK supermarket to depart from a long-held industry standard, in order to save energy and money.
The Bradford-based chain said it would increase the temperature on appliances in 10 of its stores to -15C from -18C, the industry standard set almost 100 years ago and left unchanged.
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08/02/2024 - 01:00
Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred
When jurors are called to court, they are required to swear on a holy book or make a secular promise to tell the truth.
So court officials were perplexed when the environmental activist and barrister Paul Powlesland was called for jury service and produced a vial of river water and asked to swear on the River Roding.
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