Breaking Waves: Ocean News

MPs in call to halt Drax’s £2m-a-day subsidy over sustainability doubts

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:10:47 +0000

Exclusive: Cross-party group ‘deeply concerned’ power plant may have misled ministers and regulators over source of wood pellets

Ed Miliband is under pressure from MPs to suspend subsidies worth £2m a day paid to the owner of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire after court documents cast doubt on the company’s sustainability claims.

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:42:57 +0000

Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline in New Zealand

A tide of anger is rising in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, as the city’s toilets continue to flush directly into the ocean more than two weeks after the catastrophic collapse of its wastewater treatment plant.

Trump news at a glance: president’s ‘board of peace’ set to meet, minus some key US allies

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:00:51 +0000

Some European leaders have criticised the organisation’s murky funding and political mandate – key US politics stories from Wednesday 18 February at a glance

Dozens of world leaders and national delegations will meet in Washington DC on Thursday for the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, as major European allies declined to join the group and criticised the organisation’s murky funding and political mandate.

Environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion says FBI is investigating it for terrorism

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:58:50 +0000

Extinction Rebellion says some members have been visited by agents claiming to be FBI amid Trump’s threats toward liberal groups

Environmental group Extinction Rebellion said on Wednesday it was under federal US investigation and that some of its members had been visited by FBI agents, including from the agency’s taskforce on extremism, in the last year.

Asked for comment, the FBI said it could neither confirm nor deny conducting specific investigations, citing justice department policy.

The sambusa underground: how Minneapolis’s Somalis feed community and resistance

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:00:42 +0000

A fried snack sustained protesters, and the aid continues amid fear and promises that ICE will leave the city

Plug-in hybrids use three times more fuel than manufacturers claim, analysis finds

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:41:26 +0000

While most hybrids are said to use one to two litres of fuel per 100km, a study claims they need six litres on average

Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) use much more fuel on the road than officially stated by their manufacturers, a large-scale analysis of about a million vehicles of this type has shown.

The Fraunhofer Institute carried out what is thought to be the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, using the data transmitted wirelessly by PHEVs from a variety of manufacturers while they were on the road.

Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:00:35 +0000

By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself

Unprovoked shark attacks up sharply in 2025, with 12 human deaths worldwide

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:00:34 +0000

Report records 65 unprovoked attacks – but annual drowning deaths in US alone exceed 4,000

The number of people killed or bitten by sharks in unprovoked attacks globally increased significantly in 2025, a report published on Wednesday has found, while a single Florida county maintained its crown as the so-called shark bite capital of the world.

Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:10:49 +0000

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.

Second wild beaver spotted living at Norfolk nature reserve

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:05:58 +0000

Exclusive: Pensthorpe was believed to be home to just one individual but pair have been filmed grooming each other

No one knows where they came from or how they ended up in Norfolk. But one thing is certain: now, there are two of them.