Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Texas flooding latest: desperate search for survivors after dozens killed and girls at summer camp missing

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:15:59 +0000

At least 24 people have died amid torrential rains and dozens of people at an all-girls summer camp are among those still missing

We have more from the Associated Press on Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian summer camp from which up to 25 children are missing.

Chloe Crane, a teacher and former Camp Mystic counsellor, said her heart broke when a fellow teacher shared an email from the camp about the missing girls.

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:00:04 +0000

A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?

Lorries thunder over the A14 bridge north of Cambridge, above steep roadside embankments covered in plastic shrouds containing the desiccated remains of trees.

Occasionally the barren landscape is punctuated by a flash of green where a young hawthorn or a fledgling honeysuckle has emerged apparently against the odds, but their shock of life is an exception in the treeless landscape.

Rare butterfly hits purple patch at Sussex rewilding project

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Ecologists say 283 purple emperor recordings on one day at Knepp signal higher numbers nationwide

A conservation project in West Sussex has had its best day on record for rare purple emperor butterfly sighting, and ecologists say they are confident the species is doing well nationally.

These women are raising endangered butterfly larvae from prison: ‘They reconnect with their own brilliance’

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:00:45 +0000

The women are raising larvae of the endangered Taylor’s checkerspot for release into the wild

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.

Of the many things the team here has tried to tempt larvae of the Taylor’s checkerspot – a native of the Pacific north-west – with, it is the invasive English plantain they seem to love the most.

‘Peaceful trespass’ planned at Dorset beauty spot after new owners shut path

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:00:40 +0000

Loss of access to lake and waterfall in Thomas Hardy country prompts action at Bridehead estate

Heaven only knows what Thomas Hardy would have made of it. On Saturday, protesters will arrive at the Bridehead estate in Dorset, hop across a low stone wall and take part in a “peaceful trespass” to express their anger and sadness at the loss of access to a spot in the sort of landscape Hardy wrote about so evocatively.

Canada races to build icebreakers amid melting ice and geopolitical tensions

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:00:40 +0000

In an Arctic reshaped by the climate crisis, less ice really means more as countries face risks in push for more ships

For millennia, a mass of sea ice in the high Arctic has changed with the seasons, casting off its outer layer in summer and expanding in winter as it spins between Russia, Canada and Alaska. Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this fluke of geography and oceanography was once a proving ground for ice to “mature” into thick sheets.

Landmark US study reveals sewage sludge and wastewater plants tied to Pfas pollution

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:00:38 +0000

New study finds troubling levels of Pfas near wastewater plants and sludge sites in 19 states

Sewage sludge and wastewater treatment plants are major sources of Pfas water pollution, new research finds, raising questions about whether the US is safely managing its waste.

‘Slapp addict’ Italian oil firm accused of trying to silence green activists

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:00:13 +0000

Eni has filed at least six defamation suits against journalists and NGOs since 2019 in what critics say is intimidation campaign

‘Legal bullying’: global protest rights on line in Dutch court case, say activists

Week in wildlife: a lucky osprey, a miraculous hare and a political fox

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:00:11 +0000

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

EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:11:22 +0000

Letter from workers, which EPA claims is ‘unlawful’, says agency is no longer living up to its mission

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” about its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump administration’s agenda.