Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:12:08 +0000

Fishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk

The singer and environmentalist Feargal Sharkey is threatening to take the Environment Agency to court for draining a river, which hosts the oldest fishing club in England, and putting a rare population of brown trout at risk.

The former Undertones frontman chairs the Amwell Magna Fishery, which has used the secluded stretch of the River Lea in Hertfordshire since 1841.

Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:00:40 +0000

Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popular

As part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.

Why have I been hoarding 39,674 emails? | Emma Beddington

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:00:31 +0000

We can save water and help the environment just by clearing out our inboxes – so what am I doing with all these old takeaway receipts?

Trees, homes, roads: how the sea is swallowing coastal villages in the Philippines – in pictures

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:00:28 +0000

The country’s coastal communities have long lived with flooding but as climate change accelerates rising sea levels and reclamation projects reshape Manila Bay, residents now see their homes under water more often

• Photographs by Ezra Acayan for Getty Images

As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:00:52 +0000

There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK

‘Pray for rain’: wildfires in Canada are now burning where they never used to

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:35:48 +0000

Canada’s response to the extreme weather threat is being upended as the traditional epicentre of the blazes shifts as the climate warms

Road closures, evacuations, travel chaos and stern warnings from officials have become fixtures of Canada’s wildfire season. But as the country goes through its second-worst burn on record, the blazes come with a twist: few are coming from the western provinces, the traditional centre of destruction.

Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:00:35 +0000

After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest

The morning begins with a sense of anticipation – the calm before 1,200lbs of explosives detonate a stream culvert buried 10ft in Alaska’s Tongass national forest.

Jamie Daniels, 53, and his crew of Tlingit forestry workers take cover in a glade of alders.

Golden eagles poised for reintroduction in England

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:00:34 +0000

Exclusive: Study expected to confirm there are enough suitable sites to support bird of prey’s return

After more than 150 years, golden eagles could be set to return to England, as a study is expected to confirm there are enough suitable sites to support the reintroduction of the UK’s most iconic bird of prey.

German police are investigating a €0.15 water butt theft – and I fear they’re on the right side of history

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:00:30 +0000

I’ve often laughed at those who are voluntarily extremely frugal. But in a world of dwindling resources, aren’t the real weirdos the ones throwing yacht parties and sending Katy Perry into space?

Here’s a silly season story for you: a 51-year-old woman in the German town of Spaichingen in Swabia is under criminal investigation on suspicion of filling watering cans from her neighbour’s water butt. The total estimated value of the purloined water: €0.15.

Beside the seaside at Margate – in pictures

admin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:00:22 +0000

Photographer Jill Mead joins the crowds of people heading to the Kent seaside town in the summer heat