Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Weather tracker: Typhoon Kajiki lashes south-east Asia with fatalities in Vietnam

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:50:26 +0000

Duration of torrential rains from Typhoon Kajiki lead to elevated landslide risk across Laos and Thailand

Typhoon Kajiki steadily intensified over the South China Sea last weekend into a category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of 115mph. It made landfall near the coastal city of Vinh in Vietnam on Monday afternoon, having slightly weakened but still packing a punch with winds of up to 100mph and torrential rainfall.

Week in wildlife: harvest mice, a basking hippo and a hungry egret

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:00:07 +0000

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

Labor greenlights contentious Robbins Island windfarm despite fears for endangered orange-bellied parrot

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:24:59 +0000

Environment advocates have called for important migratory shorebird habitat off Tasmania to be declared ‘no-go site’

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NSW-owned Forestry Corporation charged with 29 offences related to failing to protect threatened species

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:13:39 +0000

Environment Protection Authority laid charges after investigation into accusations the corporation breached laws while operating in Tallaganda state forest

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Uncontacted Peruvian tribe on deadly collision course with loggers, group says

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:42:41 +0000

Survival International says Mashco Piro seen in nearby Amazon village in alarming sign group is under stress

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign that the group is under stress from development.

Make Drax wait for its next subsidy deal. An FCA investigation is serious | Nils Pratley

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:35:24 +0000

Ministers should find out what the regulator says before signing away a further £1.8bn of public money

Activists blend science and folklore as they try to revive Somerset’s eel population

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:32:41 +0000

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Feargal Sharkey back campaign to save the animal, which once inspired placenames, songs and stories

When the Somerset Levels flood in winter, their reed-fringed waterways swell into a glinting inland sea – haunting and half forgotten.

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:00:52 +0000

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

‘The tree is trying its best’: why New Yorkers are counting – and rating – every park tree

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:04:48 +0000

Volunteers are tasked with logging about 150,000 park trees by hand – and for some, it’s become a strange obsession

On a recent morning, as the late August sun began to beat down, a few dozen New Yorkers stood in the shade of one of the nearly 500 trees adorning Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, worrying a bit about hurting its feelings.

Chemical companies lobbying MPs not to ban Pfas

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:58:26 +0000

Exclusive: Analysis of responses shows firms are urging parliamentarians to limit regulation of ‘forever chemicals’

Chemical firms are lobbying MPs not to ban “forever chemicals” in the same way as proposed in the EU, using arguments disputed by scientists and described as “big tobacco playbook” tactics, it can be revealed.