Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The Guardian view on Japan’s cherry blossom: when spring slips out of time | Editorial

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:25:47 +0000

A 1,200-year dataset shows the ‘peak bloom’ is arriving earlier. Global heating is unsettling nature’s rhythms – and their cultural meaning

Maui residents are rebuilding Lahaina for locals, not tourists: ‘In Hawaii, we take care of one another’

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:00:44 +0000

After deadly 2023 fires, recent storms and ICE raids, Lahaina residents are determined to rebuild the town for their community

‘How much have we missed?’: book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:00:42 +0000

Authors set out to correct under-representation of female sounds – and found some surprising revelations

When we hear the beautiful call of a bird from a high bough, we’re told it’s likely to be a male – singing for territory, or belting out tunes to woo a female. But as the annual dawn chorus reaches a crescendo this spring, a new guidebook is urging us to think again – and turn our ears to the hidden world of female birdsong.

I adored Pokémon as a child. Now I collect critters of a different kind in a hobby I’m uniquely suited to – birdwatching | Jayce Carrano

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:00:22 +0000

Every player has experienced that fierce loyalty to one pocket monster or another. The same is true here

The Pokémon franchise has turned 30, which means that it’s been a long time since a childhood friend and I braved Pokémon Blue’s haunted Lavender Town together – solemnly handing the Game Boy back and forth in the first (and perhaps last) documented case of two only children sharing something.

For most of my 29 years, I couldn’t have cared less about birdwatching. But as it turns out, this hobby is uniquely suited to those of us who belong to the Pokémon generation.

‘We can’t wait’: Venice already seeking floods plan B five years after barriers’ launch

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:00:14 +0000

Rising sea levels and ecological damage caused by heavy use of flood defence system force city authorities to consider next move

The Arsenale, the colossal shipyard that was the engine of the Venetian Republic’s domination for seven centuries, remains the nucleus of the city’s control over the water. Its northern section is made up of cavernous brick warehouses called capannoni, which in the 16th century could produce a warship a day through a rigorously ordered assembly line.

A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:00:11 +0000

A former horticultural nursery in Regent’s Park has been transformed into a diverse mix of habitats, with a wide range of species already spotted ahead of its opening to the public on April 27

When the Queen Elizabeth II garden opens in Regent’s Park this month, the first people to visit the Royal Parks’ £5m biodiversity project will quickly discover they are not, in fact, the first visitors.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:00:07 +0000

The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are

Donald Trump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive. Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks. But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.

Stranded and dying, the German whale is a parable of our troubled relationship with these sea giants

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:00:05 +0000

Even as we empathise with these intelligent animals, our relentless push for resources kills them in their thousands, just as whalers once hunted them to the brink of extinction

For weeks now, a humpback whale has been trying to die. Entangled in ropes, it had wandered into the shallow Baltic Sea. Unable to feed, it is now subject to extreme dehydration, since whales satisfy their thirst through the fish they eat.

Six great reads: Iran’s social media memes, an abandoned department store and a 1,200-year-old record of cherry blossoms

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:00:06 +0000

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

Supreme court sides with oil and gas firms in Louisiana coastal damage fight

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:19 +0000

8-0 ruling gives companies new day in federal court after firms including Chevron ordered to pay millions for cleanup

The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up damage to the state’s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits.