Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Plug-in balcony solar panels to go on sale in UK for first time

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:30:23 +0000

DIY system will be stocked by big retailers, starting with Argos, enabling more homes to lower bills by generating own electricity

Plug-in solar panels will go on sale in the UK for the first time from Thursday, allowing households unable to use rooftop panels to also generate their own cheap electricity.

Households across the country will be able to join the millions across mainland Europe who generate their own renewable electricity using “balcony solar panels”, which will be stocked by some of the UK’s biggest retailers.

Girl, 13, among missing British citizens after flash flood in Nepal

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:41:09 +0000

More than 400 travellers are said to be missing after flood on Tibet border, including 33 Britons

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border – latest updates

Thirty-three British citizens including a 13-year-old girl are among more than 400 travellers missing after a flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border, according to Nepal’s tourism board.

South African police arrest two Thai men for allegedly smuggling parrot eggs

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:09:58 +0000

Bird eggs intercepted in homemade incubators at Johannesburg airport as officials try to halt wildlife trafficking

South African police have arrested two Thai nationals in separate incidents for allegedly attempting to smuggle endangered parrot eggs out of the country as authorities try to stem the tide of wildlife trafficking.

Why are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock?

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:40:15 +0000

Lethal temperatures and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires

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1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:13 +0000

Ocean Conservancy says last year’s cleanup collected 13.9m pieces of rubbish from beaches and rivers worldwide

More than 1.3m plastic bottles were collected from beaches, rivers and waterways last year during the world’s largest single-day volunteer ocean cleanup.

About 630,000 people took part in the International Coastal Cleanup in 2025, removing almost 13.9m pieces of rubbish from more than 15,000 miles of coastline and waterways.

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:11 +0000

A magical corner of Oregon has the highest US rate of wildfire smoke deaths. How do residents live with the haze – and grief?

Driving into the county, you can’t miss the sign.

“IT’S THE CLIMATE”.

Groups sue Trump’s EPA over fast-track approval of toxic datacenter chemicals

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:00:12 +0000

Exposure to two compounds approved can result in ‘sudden death’ and range of other serious health risks, lawsuit warns

The Trump administration has approved two new datacenter chemicals to which exposure can result in “sudden death” and a range of other serious health risks, like cancer, eye corrosion, neurological damage and reproductive harm, a new lawsuit warns.

Flash floods on Nepal-Tibet border leave scores dead and hundreds missing

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:45:44 +0000

At least 157 people dead and hundreds of tourists among missing after roads, bridges and power plants swept away

Nepal-Tibet floods – latest updates

At least 157 people have been killed and hundreds, including large numbers of foreign tourists, are missing after flash floods ⁠hit the Himalayan border areas of ⁠Nepal and Tibet in China, police have said, with parts of India also at risk.

‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:41 +0000

Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations

On a recent August day in the subterranean furnace of New York City’s subway, one bearded, curly-haired man was studying his phone for different reasons than the other wilting passengers – to track the soaring temperatures and ponder how underground train stations can cool down in an era of climate crisis.

‘National scandal’: extreme heat linked to 40,000 deaths in England between 1988 and 2025

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:47:00 +0000

ONS data shows rising toll of climate crisis, with officials warning this summer on track to set further records

More than 40,000 extra people died on the hottest days in England between 1988 and 2025 than would be expected in normal temperatures, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday.