Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Eat salmon, win prizes: Fat Bear Week begins in Alaska’s Katmai national park

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:20:11 +0000

Fattest brown bears, bulking up for hibernation, pitted against each other in online public vote – who will win?

It’s that time of year again, when audiences turn to a welcome distraction from the heavy news cycle: Katmai national park and preserve in southern Alaska is celebrating its fattest brown bears.

The park is set to kick off its annual Fat Bear Week on Tuesday, an online competition where the public votes for the park’s fattest brown bear.

‘A heavy burden’: Belém residents evicted in rush for profits from Cop30 rentals

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:50:57 +0000

As the Brazilian city prepares to host 50,000 delegates, local people are being pushed from their homes

The two-bedroom apartment in Belém became Suelen Freitas’s home in 2020, when she moved her family to the same building as her elderly mother. On the edge of the Amazon rainforest, it was where her story played out for five years, from enduring the Covid pandemic, to watching her two children get into the university.

Climate activists gather in New York for ‘Sun Day’ solar energy and anti-billionaire rallies

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:34:44 +0000

Sun Day national action supported renewable energy, day after ‘Make Billionaires Pay’ march ahead of Climate Week

Whose tide is highest? Canadian towns battle it out over Guinness World Record title

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:00:04 +0000

For years Nova Scotia’s Burntcoat Head Park claimed the superior tidal height, but now a challenger from the far north is seeking the crown

For visitors to Burntcoat Head Park in Nova Scotia, a scramble along the russet shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean is a pilgrimage to the site of one of the planet’s great natural wonders.

Twice a day, more than 100bn tons of seawater fills and drains the Bay of Fundy – a figure comparable to the flow of all the world’s freshwater rivers combined.

Leopard sharks mating in the wild captured on camera for first time – video

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 05:05:07 +0000

The leopard shark 'threesome' between two males and a female was filmed by a university researcher off New Caledonia. Scientists believe it to be the world's first recorded observation of two males of the globally endangered species mating in quick succession with a female

'Involved sequentially': leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome

‘Involved sequentially’: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:52:15 +0000

Menage a trois over in 110 seconds and ‘then the males lost all their energy and lay immobile on the bottom’, marine biologist Dr Hugo Lassauce says

A trio of leopard sharks in New Caledonia has made marine science history after they were recorded mating in a “threesome”.

It is the first time the globally endangered species has been documented in a mating sequence, providing valuable knowledge to aid conservation efforts.

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:01:02 +0000

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown.

Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production for the coming decades than they did in 2023, the last time comparable data was compiled.

Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:24:42 +0000

Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers

Hundreds of people plunged into the Chicago River’s chilly waters on Sunday as part of the first organized swim in the river for nearly 100 years, a previously unthinkable act in what was once one of the most befouled waterways in the world.

Canavan claims Coalition ‘on the cusp’ of abandoning net zero as Ley urged to follow Dutton’s voice referendum tactics

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:05:27 +0000

Queensland Nationals senator tells Cpac conference ‘last rites being administered’ and praises Andrew Hastie for threat to quit frontbench over policy

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DNA from old ants reveals a hidden insect apocalypse in Fiji

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:45:02 +0000

Insects are essential for ecosystems, but mounting evidence suggests many populations are collapsing under modern pressures. A new study used cutting-edge genomic techniques on museum specimens to track centuries of ant biodiversity across Fiji. The results reveal that nearly 80% of native ants are in decline, with losses intensifying in the past few hundred years as human activities expanded.