Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:00:45 +0000

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

The El Niño climate phenomenon is “supersizing before our eyes”, the UN has said. The event is near certain to shatter temperature records, according to the latest forecasts.

From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:00:44 +0000

Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials

As the first heatwave of the record-breaking summer arrived on 23 May, GB News host Cristo Foufas was not happy: “I am sick to death of the naysayers saying firstly that we’re all going to die and that we have to put out heat alerts, because, you know, just drink some water and drink a bit less rosé in the sunshine.”

The September reset is real. I’m about to become a better person, flaxseed by flaxseed | Emma Brockes

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:00:44 +0000

Small changes are what I’m aiming for – 10-minute workouts, cleaning out my handbag. Then I’m less likely to have failed come October

The place that never freezes: the Arctic habitat where global heating threatens more ice, not less

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:00:42 +0000

The race to study the North Water between Canada and Greenland before it changes has led to a bold plan for an Inuit-run protected area

Electric-blue meltwater sprays up under Terry Noah’s snowmobile as he races across sea ice extending out from Canada’s northernmost public community: Grise Fiord in Nunavut, a hamlet of 144 people closer to Murmansk in Russia than the Canadian city of Toronto. The bay’s cliffs loom higher and higher like stone icebergs as he approaches his destination across the bay.

Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:23:37 +0000

Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuels

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China’s falling emissions amid Iran war spark hope of decarbonisation watershed

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:01:37 +0000

Oil consumption plummets and EV sales soar as analysts say demand may not fully return even if crude price falls

China’s carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1% after the outbreak of the US-Israeli war on Iran, thanks to a sharp reduction in oil consumption and a steady rise in the use of electric vehicles and public transport, analysis shows.

Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:51:54 +0000

President’s order strips nearly 3m acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, sacred tribal sites, of safeguards

Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres.

Ben Jennings on the rise of datacentres in Britain – cartoon

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:14:42 +0000

Temperature check: alarm as prediction markets lean into weather and climate bets

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:00:28 +0000

Climate experts warn that US Kalshi and Polymarket users are ‘gamifying disasters’ as they bet on events like heatwaves and daily temperatures

Online prediction markets, saturated by money staked on sport, crypto and politics, have now set their sights on a promising new area of growth: betting on the future livability of the planet itself.

Mass breeding of game birds without welfare checks may be curtailed in England

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:29:50 +0000

Campaigners say pheasants and partridges reared ‘on industrial scale’ do not have same protections as chickens

The government is considering a crackdown on pheasant shooting in England as part of a consultation on strict new animal welfare laws that would affect shoot organisers.