Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Week in wildlife: Neil the seal, a pink grasshopper and condors in love

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:00:22 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten company towns – in pictures

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:22 +0000

For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon the buildings and workers. The remains show human resilience as nature reclaims the land

‘Scavenger’ dolphins increasingly rely on trawlers for food in overfished Adriatic, say scientists

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:18 +0000

In one area 76% of fishing boats were followed, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parents

Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic are increasingly following trawlers to scavenge for food, with baby dolphins learning the technique from their parents, a study has found.

“These days the easiest way to find [bottlenose dolphins] is to look for trawlers,” said Giovanni Bearzi, a co-author of the study and the president of Dolphin Biology and Conservation in Italy. “Many of them are followed by the dolphins that go to forage and scavenge in their wake.

Race to control wildfires in south-western France – in pictures

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:55:42 +0000

Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in south-western France as the country swelters through a record-breaking heatwave. The fire started at a campsite, destroying dozens of mobile homes before spreading to the marina area, where thick, toxic smoke blanketed boats. The fire broke out in the town of Sainte-Marie-la-Mer and spread to Canet-en-Roussillon on Thursday

NSW records first suspected case of deadly H5 bird flu as virus reaches Australia’s east coast

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:52:00 +0000

Migratory giant petrel discovered near Hawks Nest north of Newcastle infected with H5. Testing under way to determine if it’s highly pathogenic H5N1 strain

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As seas rise, American history could be washed away

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:00:06 +0000

In Jamestown, Virginia, one of the most important places in American history is in a race against time from rising waters

Sean Romo stops digging the moment he sees a faint line emerge in the sandy Virginia soil.

It’s just a slight change in color, but to Romo, director of archaeology for Jamestown Rediscovery, it may be another piece of America’s origin story.

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:10:14 +0000

Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024

The UK government breached environmental law on several occasions when granting farmers permission to use a bee-killing pesticide, a watchdog has found.

Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:00:02 +0000

Despite a deadly heatwave sweeping through Europe, the US president’s ineptness has created reason for optimism on the climate crisis

‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:00:14 +0000

Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands

Jerry Bransford, a former US National Park Service (NPS) ranger, has always had a deep connection with the land he grew up on – and the land hundreds of feet below it. His great-great-grandfather, Materson “Mat” Bransford, was one of the earliest explorers of Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky, the largest known cave system on the planet.

Forecasters warn of record-breaking US summer heat amid intense El Niño

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:30:11 +0000

More than 100m people could be affected in week leading to 4 July, with increased risks of droughts and wildfires

Meteorologists are anticipating a tumultuous summer that could rank as one of the US’s hottest ever.

New data released on Tuesday showed the first six months of the year were the hottest ever measured for parts of eight western states.