The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist
The anticipation is palpable onboard the Boaventura II as the yacht sets off from Rio de Janeiro at sunrise. Once beyond the Cagarras Islands, rocky outcrops just three miles off Ipanema beach, the group gathers at the bow and starts scanning the horizon.
They do not have to wait long. “Eleven o’clock!” someone calls out, as a pod of bottlenose dolphins appears, playfully diving in and out of the water. Then, two spouts of vapour hanging in the air signal the reason for the outing: a pair of humpback whales. The majestic mammals surface to breathe with an unhurried chuff, before revealing the underside of their fluke as they dive back underwater.
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08/12/2026 - 06:30
Plans for hyperscale datacenter in Palm Beach county prompt concerns over water and electricity demands
About 16 miles (26km) west of the Mar-a-Lago estate on President Donald J Trump Highway, near the northern edge of the Florida Everglades, developers have proposed a hyperscale datacenter on a 202-acre (82-hectare) parcel of land surrounded by water. Local environmentalists warn that the proposed 600MW datacenter in western Palm Beach county could damage the wetlands, which the federal government and the state of Florida have spent a combined $6bn to restore after decades of drainage and development.
One concern is that the datacenter could exacerbate an existing issue of toxic bacterial blooms in a water system which has already been stressed by drought, fertilizer runoff and warm water temperatures. In recent summers, the bright blooms of blue-green algae have covered nearly half of Lake Okeechobee, which feeds into the Everglades.
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08/11/2026 - 23:29
Rio Tinto said in December it may cease operations at the Tomago aluminium smelter at the end of its current electricity supply contract
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Anthony Albanese and the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, will mount a major bailout of Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, in a deal worth $2.5bn.
Resources giant Rio Tinto said in December it was contemplating ceasing operations at the Tomago aluminium smelter, located north-west of Newcastle, at the end of its current electricity supply contract.
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08/11/2026 - 23:00
Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing.
Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment.
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npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66901-7
Development of samarium-153 oxide loaded polystyrene radiotracer particles for gamma scintigraphy of whole gastrointestinal transit study
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66659-y
Experiences of kinesiophobia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative phenomenological study
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-63846-9
Correction: A five-dimensional classical framework for gravitational and quantum phenomena
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66068-1
Multi-level violence recognition via hybrid convolutional-attention and recurrent architectures
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-64954-2
AlzheiNN: a convolutional neural network-based model for Alzheimer’s disease classification
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-62801-y
Model-free multiparametric analysis of SHG images reveals collagen signatures in breast cancer
