Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:12:29 +0000

Climate and transport organisations warn ministers not to ‘sleepwalk into crisis’ amid Iran war oil and gas shortages

Private jets should be banned and the speed limit on UK motorways reduced to 60mph as part of a pre-emptive effort to ease the looming fuel supply crisis, according to leading climate and transport organisations.

Week in wildlife: super-rare bongos, ducks on parade and Marmalade the Thames seal

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:41:28 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:00:27 +0000

Butterfly Conservation poll is open until 7 June with choice of 60 species from small tortoiseshells to purple emperors

Will it be the rapidly disappearing former garden favourite, the small tortoiseshell? Or the poet John Masefield’s “oakwood haunting thing”, the charismatic purple emperor? Or perhaps the brimstone, the ultimate harbinger of spring?

Australia’s housing affordability expected to worsen and homelessness soar under fossil-fuelled future

admin — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:21 +0000

Rents will rise and homelessness quadruple in a decade unless serious steps to cut emissions are taken, University of Sydney researchers find

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River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot on Friday

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:30:18 +0000

Thames at Ham designated as one of 13 new swimming areas across England to be monitored for water quality

The first designated bathing water area on the River Thames in London will welcome swimmers for the official start of the bathing season on Friday as one of 13 new monitored swimming areas across England.

Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:08:21 +0000

Groups say supreme court justice, who owns oil stocks, may be violating ethics codes by participating in certain cases

The supreme court justice Samuel Alito, who owns stock in oil companies, may be violating court ethics codes by participating in certain cases that could benefit big oil, government watchdog groups say.

Giant squid discovery uncovers a hidden deep-sea world off Australia

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:46:07 +0000

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia uncovered a hidden world packed with bizarre and elusive marine life — including signs of the legendary giant squid. By analyzing traces of DNA floating in seawater from depths exceeding 4 kilometers, researchers identified 226 species ranging from deep-diving whales to strange fish rarely or never seen in the region before. Some of the creatures may even be unknown to science.

Salmon farm faces new cruelty claims as Trump seeks to supersize fish farming

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:30:07 +0000

New undercover video appears to show cruel treatment of salmon at Cooke hatchery amid push for ‘chickenification’ of fish

The Trump administration is keen to do to fish what has been done to chickens – mass-produce them on an industrial scale to accelerate the US’s output of seafood.

But this “chickenification” of fish may come at a hefty cost to the environment and to the fish themselves, as a new undercover video at one of the country’s leading fish farms has highlighted.

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:00:25 +0000

When the birds started nesting on her land at Useless Bay, Chile, Cecilia Durán Gafo decided she would protect them from people and predators

Five pairs of rubbery feet carry velvet-sheathed black-and-white bodies towards the rope line separating the king penguins from the dozen or so visitors, who look on in awe. As these emissaries shuffle over, a hundred of their cohorts parade on a nearby bank, splashing around in the water and regurgitating food into their chicks’ open beaks.

Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years

admin — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:29:49 +0000

Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gains

Brazil’s Atlantic forest, the country’s most threatened biome, last year recorded its lowest level of deforestation since monitoring began 40 years ago, a new report shows.