Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Shark feeding frenzy off popular Australian surf beach captured in chilling footage

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:07:08 +0000

‘Wonderful’ for people to see the predators so close and feasting on bait fish at the Gold Coast’s Rainbow Bay, near Snapper Rocks, expert says

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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:00:34 +0000

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

Aurora Nikula, 5, is having a normal day at her nursery. She is making a cake out of sand and mud, adding in make-believe carrots, potatoes and meat. “It’s overcooked,” she says as she splashes water in, then adds another dollop of sand. “More sugar, it tastes better,” she says. A handful of mud goes in, and the dish evolves into a chocolate cake.

All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:05:31 +0000

Analysis of public records comes as Trump administration aims to fast-track approval of new LNG export terminals

Every fully operational liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the US has violated federal pollution limits in recent years, a new report has found.

‘Animal cruelty’: two-year-old humpback whale found dead in NSW shark net causes anger

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:23:34 +0000

It is the first whale to have died out of 15 entangled in shark nets on Australia’s east coast so far this year

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America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:01:27 +0000

Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian.

These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average.

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:01:27 +0000

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.

It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating.

‘Storm of the century’: record-breaking Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica and heads for Cuba

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:54:45 +0000

Minister says parish of St Elizabeth is ‘under water’ and that families are trapped in their homes in the community of Black River in western Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa: a visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:43:04 +0000

Slow-moving giant makes landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba

Hurricane Melissa – latest updates

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.

Bill Gates says climate crisis won’t cause ‘humanity’s demise’ in call to shift focus to ‘improving lives’

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:26:04 +0000

Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target and warned of devastation

Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.

Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:04:17 +0000

Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals

Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new UK nature rules in an attempt to keep down the cost of renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.

The energy firms have said they would be unable to build the vast number of turbines required to meet the government’s green electricity goals if they have to meet new rules for nationally significant infrastructure projects (Nsips).