Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Revealed: British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industry

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:00:09 +0000

WPP accused of breaching its climate policy after report reveals firm linked to twice as much oil advertising as US rivals

A British advertising conglomerate has helped the oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP spend an estimated $1.5bn (£1.1bn) on adverts in the US since the 2015 Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis, a report shows.

Crack and crime to confident and qualified: is the future about to change for Rhyl’s youth?

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:09 +0000

The Welsh seaside resort has already seen a fall in offending and drug use, now a £20m investment and a fresh approach to building job skills is bringing new opportunities for under-25s

Killing time playing pool at the West Rhyl youth club, friends Sienna, 19, and Jake, 26, are unanimous when asked what a tour of the north Wales seaside town should look like. “The first place I’d show anyone is ‘Crackhead Circle’,” Sienna says.

Sounds of hope in Kent as more nightingales join dawn chorus

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:00:08 +0000

Elusive nightingale ‘doing well’ at Northward Hill, Kent, but experts cite concerns around loss of habitat

The dawn chorus at RSPB Northward Hill in Kent is a riot of sound: the melodic robin, the two-tone cuckoo, the whitethroat’s scratchy warble. Even the garbling geese and mooing cows from the neighbouring Thames marshes add to the symphony.

Are we being told the truth about a gas profits tax? | Fiona Katauskas

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:00:25 +0000

Or is it the gaslight on the hill?

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Labor will back fossil fuels in the budget but the gas tax campaign isn’t dead yet | Clear air

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:13:13 +0000

Despite popular support for a 25% levy on gas exports, Anthony Albanese opposes it and there is little discussion about how to reduce our usage

Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:01:50 +0000

Rise in electricity demand in first quarter of 2026 was moderated by record output from rooftop solar

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What does the Zoological Society of London do? After 200 years, the answer is still ‘everything’ | Martin Rowson

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:00:49 +0000

The ZSL has given us the word ‘zoo’, inspired artists and birthed a quarter of all Sumatran tigers. It has fascinated me since childhood – and the world since 1826

In the spring of 1826, two extraordinary things occurred in central London. The first was the death of Chunee the elephant. On 1 March at Cross’s Menagerie, upstairs in the Exeter ’Change on the Strand, Chunee was killed by a firing squad in the cramped enclosure where he’d been kept for the previous six years.

Timmy the whale rescue attempt begins off coast of Germany – in pictures

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:01:45 +0000

A rescue operation to transport a young male humpback to deeper waters in the North Sea after it became stranded in the Baltic Sea off Lübeck a month ago is under way. The whale’s ordeal has gripped Germany but there are concerns it may be too fatigued and sick to survive

Stranded whale swims on to barge in German rescue attempt

Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:30:52 +0000

Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for other east coast communities

Moving house has a more literal meaning on Hatteras Island, the slender hook of land that juts off the coast of North Carolina. After a slew of houses toppled spectacularly into the Atlantic Ocean recently, entire buildings are now being lifted on to wheels to flee the rapidly eroding coastline.

Critical minerals are ‘oil of 21st century’ as demand fuels poverty and pollution in poorer countries

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:53 +0000

Rush for lithium, cobalt and nickel is ravaging livelihoods, water and health of world’s most vulnerable, UN study says

Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel are becoming the “oil of the 21st century” as the scramble for precious metals deepens poverty and creates public health crises in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities, a report by the UN’s water thinktank has found.