Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Devon parasite outbreak: supplier says service nearly restored as it hikes dividend

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 08:03:15 +0000

South West Water hands out £127m to investors despite anger over contaminated supply

Delhi orders schools to close early for holidays as temperatures hit 47.4C

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 07:56:38 +0000

Authorities cut short school term as weather bureau warns of severe heatwave conditions this week

Authorities in the Indian capital, have ordered schools to shut early for the summer holiday, after temperatures in Delhi hit 47.4C (117F).

City officials told schools to shut with “immediate effect” due to the blistering heat, according to a government order quoted by the Hindustan Times on Tuesday, cutting the term by a few days.

Top oil firms’ climate pledges failing on almost every metric, report finds

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 06:00:34 +0000

Oil Change International says plans do not stand up to scrutiny and describes US fossil-fuel corporations as ‘the worst of the worst’

Major oil companies have in recent years made splashy climate pledges to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and take on the climate crisis, but a new report suggests those plans do not stand up to scrutiny.

Dozens of cormorants shot by Tasmanian salmon farm operator

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 05:07:15 +0000

Tassal staff legally killed 53 of the native birds with permission from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment

More valuable than gold: New Zealand feather becomes most expensive in the world

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 04:47:04 +0000

The well-preserved huia bird feather was expected to fetch up to NZD$3,000 but ended up selling for more than NZD$46,000

A rare and highly prized feather from the extinct New Zealand huia bird has sold for NZD$46,521 (US$28,365), making it by far the world’s most expensive feather ever sold at auction.

The hammer price far exceeded initial estimates of between $2,000-$3,000, and blew the previous record-holder’s price out of the water. Until Monday’s sale, the previous record sale was another huia feather that sold in 2010 for $8,400.

Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 04:00:29 +0000

‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns

Migratory fish populations have crashed by more than 80% since 1970, new findings show.

Populations are declining in all regions of the world, but it is happening fastest in South America and the Caribbean, where abundance of these species has dropped by 91% over the past 50 years.

Closing Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station would leave NSW exposed to risk of blackouts – Aemo

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:40:28 +0000

States must roll out batteries, solar and wind energy more quickly to ease risk of blackouts, market operator says

Where is the German cockroach actually from? We tested its DNA to trace its true origins

admin — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:38:24 +0000

It’s likely the urban pest first emerged from its native lands about 1,200 years ago. As global trade accelerated, the hitchhikers made their way more rapidly around the world

Rare and ‘unusual’ deep-sea anglerfish washes up on Oregon beach for first time ever

admin — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:11:02 +0000

Species, with only a few dozen seen by humans since first discovered, usually lives in darkness up to 3,300ft below sea level

Oregon beachgoers stumbled across a rare find over the weekend, after a deep-sea anglerfish washed up from the ocean depths.

More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds

admin — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:00:17 +0000

‘Critical slowing down’ of recovery raises concern over forest’s resilience to ecosystem collapse

More than a third of the Amazon rainforest is struggling to recover from drought, according to a new study that warns of a “critical slowing down” of this globally important ecosystem.

The signs of weakening resilience raise concerns that the world’s greatest tropical forest – and biggest terrestrial carbon sink – is degrading towards a point of no return.