Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Week in wildlife: a hippo with a hitchhiker, a wallaby jailbreak and a fly on the wall

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides

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Thistle-shaped Depastrum cyathiforme was last seen in France in 1976, but has now been found on South Uist

For nearly 50 years, there has been no trace of Depastrum cyathiforme, a stalked jellyfish that resembles a thistle flower.

The distinctive jellyfish was feared globally extinct after being last spotted in Roscoff, northern France, in 1976.

Are Labour’s plans to offset Heathrow expansion emissions all pie in the sky?

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Government is counting on tech to provide a panacea, but there may be simpler ways to keep climate goals on track

Wet and wintry weekend in store for NSW, with warnings of heavy rainfall and damaging winds

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Weather bureau says bulk of the rain forecast to hit on weekend as a low-pressure system deepens off the coast

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Heathrow submits ‘shovel-ready’ plans for third runway

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Government says expanding Europe’s largest airport could create 100,000 jobs and drive growth

Top Texas emergency official says he was sick and asleep as deadly floods hit

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William Thomas of Kerr county tells hearing illness meant he did not take part in emergency planning meetings

A key emergency official was sick and asleep for most of the day before devastating flash flooding swept through Texas hill country and killed more than 130 people over the Fourth of July weekend.

Jason White on water management – cartoon

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Farmers and scientists join forces in Cornwall to vaccinate badgers against TB

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The groups have long been at odds over culling of badgers in England as a way to control TB in cattle

The first farmer-led programme to vaccinate badgers against tuberculosis is beginning in Cornwall with an aim to prevent transmission of the disease to cattle.

Coalition is wedging itself on climate crisis with net zero debate, warns Liberal MP in Scott Morrison’s former seat

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Exclusive: Simon Kennedy warns closed-door party meeting against backsliding on efforts to cut carbon emissions

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Trump bids to scrap almost all pollution regulations – can anything stop this?

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EPA tries to rescind ‘endangerment finding’ – part of ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda that experts say poses grave threat

The Trump administration is attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations in one fell swoop.

At an Indiana truck dealership on Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a proposal to rescind the 16-year-old landmark legal finding which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.