Breaking Waves: Ocean News

We’ve shown that rapid, measurable progress is achievable in our cities. Here’s how that can now be replicated worldwide Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City Some public health threats make global headlines: Covid-19. Ebola. Famine. When these disasters hit, photographs and videos of people suffering and dying spur countries to respond, international bodies to cooperate and individuals to donate supplies and money. Yet one of the world’s deadliest threats gets almost no attention at all, because it is largely invisible to the public and mostly absent from media coverage: air pollution. Every day, billions of people are inhaling air that is shortening their lives and making them sicker with every breath. Every year, air pollution kills more than 8 million people worldwide. That’s more deaths than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. It hides in plain sight and strikes without mercy, leading to heart and lung disease, cancers and other deadly conditions. Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London. Michael Bloomberg is a former mayor of New York City Continue reading...

Number of countries issue alerts with sustained and rising temperatures expected to present danger to health Two children aged four and two have been found dead in their family’s car in south-eastern France, the local prosecutor said, as a large swathe of western Europe suffers a ferocious heatwave forecast to shatter absolute temperature records. “The causes of death are yet to be determined, but the heat is the leading line of inquiry,” said Hélène Mourges, the prosecutor in the town of Carpentras, where the temperature was expected to exceed 39C (102.2F) on Monday afternoon. Continue reading...

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 21 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00218-w Assessing the carbon market potential of global seagrass recovery

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-026-00215-z Global warming threatens to eradicate Earth’s tropical corals. As legal interventions addressing climate change expand, fossil fuel companies’ historical awareness of their products’ damaging effects is increasingly important. We searched historical documents using a large-language-model-based agent, finding that carbon majors were aware by the 1980s of prospective impacts of fossil fuels on corals from ocean acidification, marine heatwaves, sea-level rise, and intensified storms and later funded efforts downplaying such impacts.