Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘The normal should be darkness’: why one Belgian national park is turning off ‘pointless’ streetlights

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:00:05 +0000

The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?

Two yellowing street lamps cast a pool of light on the dark road winding into the woods outside Mazée village. This scene is typical for narrow countryside roads in Wallonia in the south of Belgium. “Having lights here is logical,” says André Detournay, 77, who has lived in the village for four decades. “I walk here with my dog and it makes me feel safe and gives me some protection from theft.”

Climate crisis linked to fall in southern right whale birth rates as researchers raise ‘warning signal’

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:00:13 +0000

Lead author of Australian study says breeding slowdown is linked to climate-driven changes in ‘magnificent’ whale’s foraging grounds

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Some of world’s oldest trees hit by climate-fuelled wildfires in Patagonia

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:00:11 +0000

Wildfires that left 23 people dead were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers say

The climate crisis inflamed deadly wildfires that left 23 people dead in Chile and devastated forests in Argentina that host some of the world’s oldest trees, scientists have found.

Achieving 30×30: How different nations report their contributions to international marine conservation targets

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 11 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00177-8

Achieving 30×30: How different nations report their contributions to international marine conservation targets

Gray wolf appears in Los Angeles county for first time in more than 100 years

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:43:21 +0000

Three-year-old black coat female, known as BEY03F, crossed into LA county around 6am on 7 February

A gray wolf wandered into Los Angeles county for the first time in more than a century on Saturday morning.

“This is the most southern verified record of a gray wolf in modern times,” Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California department of fish and wildlife, said.

Trump to repeal Obama-era finding foundational to US climate rules

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:17:09 +0000

Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health

In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters.

US restaurants targeted for opposing ICE: ‘I refuse to cook for fascists’

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:56 +0000

Restaurants face one-star reviews and less business in an already precarious industry. Some restaurateurs fear speaking out as immigrants themselves

Amid calls for a national shutdown on 30 January, Anton Kinloch displayed a sign on the sidewalk outside Lone Wolf, his craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Kingston, New York. In large block letters he wrote: “WE LOVE ICE IN DRINKS. WE DON’T LOVE ICE IN REAL LIFE. SOLIDARITY ALWAYS.”

The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:32:45 +0000

In Lancashire, I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:39 +0000

US courts, scholars and Democrats are pushing back against the president’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels

Donald Trump’s aggressive drive to boost fossil fuels, including dirty coal, coupled with his administration’s moves to roll back wind and solar power, face mounting fire from courts, scholars and Democrats for raising the cost of electricity and worsening the climate crisis.

Republican House bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:00:37 +0000

Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process

A new Republican House bill proposes sweeping changes to US toxic chemical laws that would gut protections for consumers, workers and the environment, public health advocates mobilising against the legislation warn.