Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/www.knowaste.com en This livestream of baby bald eagles is the only thing keeping me sane https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/livestream-baby-bald-eagles-only-thing-keeping-me-sane <p>A YouTube video feed of eagles Jackie and Shadow and their two children has given me hope the internet isn’t all bad</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/20/tell-us-how-sex-life-changed-after-60"><strong>Tell us: how has your sex life changed after 60?</strong></a></p> </li> </ul> <p>The internet is an unpleasant place, full of grim headlines, misinformation and social media content designed to make you feel ugly and unsuccessful. But there are good bits too.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/livestream-baby-bald-eagles-only-thing-keeping-me-sane" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 16:00:43 +0000 admin 100113 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Trump hates wind power. But these Texas Republicans are embracing it https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/trump-hates-wind-power-these-texas-republicans-are-embracing-it <p>Wind turbines have become a financial lifeline in rural areas, but state legislators are now targeting them</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/trump-hates-wind-power-these-texas-republicans-are-embracing-it" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 12:00:46 +0000 admin 100112 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/planet-s-darkening-oceans-pose-threat-marine-life-scientists-say <p>Band of water where marine life can survive has reduced in more than a fifth of global ocean between 2003 and 2022</p> <p>Great swathes of the planet’s oceans have become darker in the past two decades, according to researchers who fear the trend will have a severe impact on marine life around the world.</p> <p>Satellite data and numerical modelling revealed that more than a fifth of the global ocean darkened between 2003 and 2022, reducing the band of water that life reliant on sunlight and moonlight can thrive in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/planet-s-darkening-oceans-pose-threat-marine-life-scientists-say" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 09:01:21 +0000 admin 100111 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/we-carry-sadness-new-projects-honor-life-and-legacy-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira <p>Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast</p> <p>Three years after the British journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira">Dom Phillips and the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira</a> were murdered in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/amazon-rainforest">Amazon</a>, two major new projects will celebrate their lives and work – and the Indigenous communities and rainforests both men sought to protect.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/we-carry-sadness-new-projects-honor-life-and-legacy-dom-phillips-and-bruno-pereira" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 07:00:19 +0000 admin 100110 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Swimming with orcas is out of control’: can new rules keep tourists and Mexico’s whales safe? https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/swimming-orcas-out-control-can-new-rules-keep-tourists-and-mexico-s-whales-safe <p>Experts are calling for stricter limits on numbers of those flocking to Baja California Sur to swim with the animals in the wild. But some local tour operators are not convinced</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/swimming-orcas-out-control-can-new-rules-keep-tourists-and-mexico-s-whales-safe" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 04:00:17 +0000 admin 100109 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org More interstate dust storms expected if South Australia drought continues, expert warns https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/more-interstate-dust-storms-expected-if-south-australia-drought-continues-expert-warns <p>Haze hits Sydney suburbs on Tuesday morning after crossing NSW from SA and Victoria</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/27/australia-news-live-liberals-nationals-coalition-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-north-west-shelf-climate-change-gas-ntwnfb">Australia news live: latest politics updates</a></p> </li></ul><p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/more-interstate-dust-storms-expected-if-south-australia-drought-continues-expert-warns" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 02:56:46 +0000 admin 100108 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Almost 800 homes destroyed by NSW floods with tally to rise as damage assessments continue https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/almost-800-homes-destroyed-nsw-floods-tally-rise-damage-assessments-continue <p>Anthony Albanese visits mid-north coast as police warn of ‘un-Australian’ looting during clean-up</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/27/australia-news-live-liberals-nationals-coalition-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-north-west-shelf-climate-change-gas-ntwnfb">Australia news live: latest politics updates</a></p> </li></ul><p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/almost-800-homes-destroyed-nsw-floods-tally-rise-damage-assessments-continue" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 01:22:08 +0000 admin 100107 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org As the energy transition ramps up, Australia risks becoming a more unequal society. Here’s what needs to change | Dominic Jones https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/energy-transition-ramps-australia-risks-becoming-more-unequal-society-here-s-what-need <p>Governments must help households to make the switch to cleaner energy, and change the rules so that the benefits and costs are fairly shared</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/energy-transition-ramps-australia-risks-becoming-more-unequal-society-here-s-what-need" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 27 May 2025 00:19:24 +0000 admin 100105 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Four former Volkswagen managers convicted of fraud in ‘dieselgate’ trial https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/four-former-volkswagen-managers-convicted-fraud-dieselgate-trial <p>Braunschweig court gives two former executives prison sentences for roles in emissions test-cheating scandal</p> <p>A German court has convicted four former Volkswagen managers of fraud and given two of them prison sentences for their part in the “dieselgate” emissions test-cheating scandal that erupted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2015/sep/23/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-explained-diesel-cars">almost a decade ago</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/four-former-volkswagen-managers-convicted-fraud-dieselgate-trial" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 May 2025 18:30:13 +0000 admin 100101 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Nearly extinct ‘forgotten antelope’ photographed for first time in DRC https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/nearly-extinct-forgotten-antelope-photographed-first-time-drc <p>Upemba lechwe considered one of world’s rarest large mammals with fewer than 100 thought to remain</p> <p>A photograph of Africa’s “forgotten antelope” has been published for the first time as the elusive creature dives towards extinction.</p> <p>Fewer than 100 Upemba lechwe are thought to remain, with an aerial survey in the Kamalondo depression of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo having recorded 10 individuals.</p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/26/antelope-photo-upemba-lechwe">Continue reading...</a></p> Mon, 26 May 2025 16:00:02 +0000 admin 100100 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org