Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Midsummer butterflies spotted early in Britain after sunny spring

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:04:57 +0000

Scientists fear early emerging insects may fall out of sync with pathogens, predators or availability of food

Midsummer butterflies are on the wing in early May after a sunny spring sparked one of the most advanced seasons for Britain’s Lepidoptera on record.

European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 08:00:53 +0000

Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK

More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40% of British soils, a report has found.

Experts from the Save Soil initiative said nourishing and restoring agricultural soils could reduce the impact of the climate crisis and provide protection against the worsening extremes of weather, as well as the food shortages and price rises likely to accompany them.

Week in wildlife: A rare chameleon, friendly starlings and hot buffaloes

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:00:51 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

If illegal logging starts again, Liberia could lose more than its beloved pygmy hippos | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 05:00:50 +0000

About 270,000 people died in Liberia’s timber trade-fuelled civil war. I helped to rebuild and protect its forests. Now Europe is threatening to undermine all our hard work

It is sad when a ruthless military dictator funds his government by destroying ecologically important rainforest, logging tropical trees and displacing and robbing the people who live in and depend on the forests for their livelihoods and culture.

This happened in my country, Liberia.

Sadiq Khan to announce plans to build houses on London green belt

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:00:50 +0000

Mayor to make major policy shift and say scale of housing crisis requires breaking taboo

Sadiq Khan is announcing plans to build on parts of London’s green belt, in a dramatic shift in housing policy aimed at tackling “the most profound housing crisis in the capital’s history”.

In a major speech on Friday, the mayor of London is expected to say the scale of the challenge, which could need about 1m new homes built in the next decade, requires a break from longstanding taboos.

Helmeted honeyeaters return to Cardinia in Victoria for first time since 1983’s Ash Wednesday bushfires

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:20:42 +0000

Healesville sanctuary releases 21 critically endangered birds in hopes a new wild population will thrive

For the first time in 42 years, critically endangered helmeted honeyeaters have returned to Cardinia in south-east Victoria, where they were found until the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983.

Australia’s clean energy industry has just survived a near-death experience. Where to from here? | Kane Thornton

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:03:11 +0000

Voters have spoken with clarity. We want a renewable-powered future

Hawaii families receive payouts for 2021 fuel leak that sickened thousands

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:31:38 +0000

Judge grants payments between $5,000 and $104,000 after second world war-era tank leak contaminated water supply

Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:59:31 +0000

US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources

Database reveals vital ocean links to aid conservation

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:26:07 +0000

Scientists have launched an interactive global map to show the migratory patterns of more than 100 marine species in an effort to protect at-risk wildlife.