Breaking Waves: Ocean News

From mobile jungles to shadow art: how Dutch people try to beat the heat

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:50 +0000

A national heatwave plan has been activated to help people stay cool during the Netherlands’ increasingly hot summers

Households in Amsterdam are being urged to hang their curtains outside their windows as health experts recommend simple hacks to moderate the heatwave rolling across the Netherlands, where homes were built for old-fashioned damp and coldish northern European weather.

Western Australian poultry farms locked down as second wild bird tests positive for H5N1 bird flu

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:45:18 +0000

Poultry producer Ingham’s announces move, as a brown skua and a giant petrel the first confirmed H5 cases on Australia’s mainland

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France cancels events and restricts alcohol consumption amid brutal heatwave

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:01:47 +0000

Sports and nationwide music festival affected, with temperatures for some expected to reach 42C from Monday

Authorities in France have placed more than a third of the country under a red heat alert, cancelled some outdoor sports events and restricted alcohol consumption at the nationwide Fête de la Musique event amid a brutal heatwave forecast to push temperatures above 40C.

Assessing the carbon market potential of global seagrass recovery

admin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

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Assessing the carbon market potential of global seagrass recovery

Angus Taylor dismisses Labor’s ‘half-arsed’ tweaks to CGT reform – as it happened

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:01:54 +0000

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Ted O’Brien distanced himself from Pauline Hanson’s suggestion that Australia shouldn’t give aid to Pacific countries that also take aid from China.

Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:17:15 +0000

Ruling means Boca Chica Beach, located near sprawling Starbase site, likely to close during future rocket launches

A Texas beach can be closed during rocket launches by Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the state’s supreme court ruled unanimously against a bid by environmental organizations to sue over preserving public access.

Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:32:09 +0000

Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country

The Lebanese marine activist Mona Khalil, who became a beloved figure in the country for a decades-long effort to protect a nesting site for turtles near her home, has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike.

Khalil, 76, ran a sanctuary called the Orange House Project near the Mediterranean city of Tyre. She hosted volunteers in her house to clean and monitor a mile-long beach and welcomed tourists to stay and learn about conservation.

Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:00:02 +0000

The reconstruction of the vaquita, whose numbers barely reach double figures in the wild, is designed to help research and conservation efforts

Scientists have created a digital reconstruction of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, preserving its anatomy in three dimensions to aid research and conservation efforts as the species teeters on the brink of extinction.

From coal to cabernet: the wine seller using a flooded mine to cut heating bills

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Lanchester Wines in north-east England uses heat from a disused coalmine to maintain wine temperatures and with 23,000 flooded mines in the UK, there’s huge potential for more businesses and homes to follow its lead

Shove them in a fridge, stash them in a cellar – this is how most people store their favourite bottles of wine. But if you have warehouses full of thousands of vintages, you have to think a little differently.

JLR at risk of battery supply delays after Somerset factory turmoil

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:18:44 +0000

Supplier Agratas sacks its main building contractor on the government-backed project amid a budget mismatch

Jaguar Land Rover faces the risk of delays to the first deliveries of electric car batteries from a £5.2bn government-backed factory in Somerset after construction problems.