Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:00:29 +0000

Experts are desperate to analyse rusty patched bumblebee nests for information that might help save them. But they are extremely hard to find – unless you’re a trained conservation canine

Words and photographs by Anne Readel in Somers, Wisconsin

On a summer day in Somers, Wisconsin, Dave Giordano heard an unexpected buzzing in his back yard. What he found shocked him – a rusty patched bumblebee nest. The discovery was so rare it made the local news.

Monster surf batters Bondi Icebergs pool and leaves trail of carnage across Sydney beaches

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:55:22 +0000

Wild 5.5 metre swells hammer the eastern NSW coastline, causing damage to key walkways and closing beaches

An elusive worm: the Salinella is shrouded in mystery

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:00:05 +0000

A 19th-century zoologist found the ‘little salt dweller’, which could be a portal to the past – if only we could locate it again

Last February, with colleagues Gert and Philipp and my daughter Francesca, I made the long journey to an unremarkable city called Río Cuarto, east of the Argentinian Andes. We went in search of a worm of unusual distinction.

Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:00:05 +0000

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme finds

Last summer was the fifth worst in nearly half a century for butterflies in Britain, according to the biggest scientific survey of insect populations in the world.

For the first time since scientific recording began in 1976, more than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline.

Greens promise to push government to spend 1% of budget on environment if they hold balance of power

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:31:07 +0000

The minor party makes pledge as Labor faces calls to explain its nature policy and plans for a federal EPA

Wildlife groups express alarm at plan to ‘streamline’ UK environmental rules

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:01:55 +0000

Government wants to spur economic growth and drive housebuilding but charities say nature should be priority

Wildlife groups have expressed alarm after ministers promised a radically “streamlined” approach to UK environmental regulation intended to drive economic growth and speed up new housing, as well as major projects such as airports.

California wildfire threatening forest home of world’s oldest tree

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:53:51 +0000

Silver fire leading to fears about Methuselah, a nearly 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine in eastern part of state

Firefighters have managed to make “strong progress” containing a fire burning through eastern California near the world’s oldest trees, but the blaze remains an active threat, officials said.

The invertebrate of the year competition is here. Who will you vote for? – video

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:29:53 +0000

Invertebrates may be the unsung heroes of the planet but they have received a lot of love and recognition from Guardian readers. A dazzling array of nominations have flown in for insects, arachnids, snails, crustaceans, corals and many more obscure creatures for our invertebrate of the year competition. Natural history reporter Patrick Barkham reviews this year’s shortlist of 10

Vote for the beast that may be as ruthlessly predatory as us – the fen raft spider

Kemi Badenoch gives credence to race-swap conspiracy theory about Adolescence but admits she hasn’t watched it – as it happened

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:01:38 +0000

Conservative party leader says she believes show ‘is based on real story’, a claim described as wholly untrue by writer and co-creator of series

Richard Hughes, chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility, is giving evidence to the Treasury committee. There is a live feed here.

‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work

admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:02 +0000

Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking