Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘You’re going about your day and suddenly see a little Godzilla’: Bangkok reckons with a giant lizard boom

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:00:57 +0000

Viral videos have shifted public opinion about water monitors, long held in contempt in Thai culture, even as rising numbers of the reptiles pose problems for residents

Shortly after dawn, Lumphini Park comes alive. Bangkok residents descend on the sprawling green oasis in the middle of the city, eager to squeeze in a workout before the heat of the day takes hold. Joggers trot along curving paths. Old men struggle under barbells at the outdoor gym. Spandex-clad women stretch into yoga poses on the grass.

UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:00:56 +0000

Agreements include plan to build 12 reactors in Hartlepool with Centrica, creating 2,500 jobs, and fast-tracking UK and US safety checks

Labour’s plans for a massive expansion of nuclear power have been given a boost with a string of transatlantic deals for new modular reactors announced before Donald Trump’s visit.

The UK and US governments have promised to fast track safety checks, and announced several new private sector investment deals, with Labour emphasising the potential benefits for jobs and growth.

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:00:53 +0000

Report from group of MPs calls for broader access to rivers, woodlands and fields to improve connection with nature

Swimming and wild camping should be a right for all people to enjoy in the English countryside, Labour MPs have said.

They are calling for access to nature to be increased and legal rights to enjoy the countryside in a report from the all-party parliamentary group for outdoor recreation and access to nature.

Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:01:45 +0000

National climate risk assessment report finds heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C

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PM coy on prospect of Trump meeting – as it happened

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:55:30 +0000

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A tiny town in Idaho dodged incineration in 2024. Will the next wildfire take it out?

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:00:40 +0000

Heroic firefighting and a lucky turn in weather helped avert disaster once, but ‘a perfect storm of conditions’ remains

During a 2024 wildfire season described as “unprecedented”, the tiny central Idaho town of Stanley and nearby Redfish Lake Lodge narrowly missed incineration by two fires: the Bench Lake and then the Wapiti blazes.

Scientists fear this ‘cute’ and ‘chonky’ flying fox could be one cyclone away from extinction

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:00:38 +0000

Christmas Island flying fox numbers have declined as endangered species left without recovery plan

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‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:00:32 +0000

Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae

The bright, cheery signs dot the shoreline like epistles from another era, a time before the calamity.

“Ballyronan marina is a picturesque boating and tourist facility on the shores of Lough Neagh,” says one. “Contours of its historical past embrace the virginal shoreline.”

Billion-dollar coffins? New technology could make oceans transparent and Aukus submarines vulnerable

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:00:14 +0000

Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia’s defence strategy

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‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:00:59 +0000

As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost

• Photographs by Nicholas JR White

From the slopes behind the village of Ernen, it is possible to see the gouge where the Fiesch glacier once tumbled towards the valley in the Bernese Alps. The curved finger of ice, rumpled like tissue, cuts between high buttresses of granite and gneiss. Now it has melted out of sight.