Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:00:42 +0000

Growth rate slightly lower than previous first-half years but sector still strong and resilient, experts say

Investment in renewable energy has continued to increase around the world despite moves by Donald Trump’s White House to cancel and derail low-carbon projects.

National Trust reports bumper apple and pumpkin crops at its sites

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:00:40 +0000

Near-ideal conditions have led to high yields at some of the country’s best loved orchards and walled gardens

The nights may be drawing in and the days becoming chillier, but there is cheering news from some of the UK’s best loved orchards and walled gardens: a bumper crop of apples and pumpkins.

Fruit and squashes have ripened weeks earlier than normal in many places and yields are higher thanks to near-ideal conditions, including 2024’s wet weather followed by a warm and dry spring and plenty of summer sun this year.

Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:00:39 +0000

The winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 have been revealed. The competition, presented by Oceanographic and Blancpain, showcases breathtaking images that celebrate the ocean’s beauty and highlight the urgent need to protect it

Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:37:53 +0000

Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments

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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.