Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:00:11 +0000

Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissions

A small uncrewed vessel has embarked on a lap around Antarctica and may not return for months.

The seven-metre craft, which looks like a large kayak in hi-vis orange, is expected to travel about 22,000km through inhospitable waters, propelled by powerful westerly winds and energy from the sun. The journey is seven times the distance between Sydney and Perth.

Revealed: the undisclosed safety data emerging as weedkiller maker faces Parkinson’s lawsuits in US

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:50 +0000

Syngenta denies keeping relevant data from the EPA as paraquat stays in the US market despite global bans

Trump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warn

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:50 +0000

Federal agencies told to prioritize recreational fishing and to reconsider scientific standards as well as regulations

Donald Trump’s latest fishing order is raising new concerns about US marine protections, as it directs federal agencies to prioritize recreational fishing while reconsidering the scientific standards and environmental regulations that govern American fisheries.

‘Your body fights to stay cool’: workers toil in record heat as federal rule frozen

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:49 +0000

Trump officials and Republicans are rolling back protections against heat-related illnesses and deaths

When it’s 90F on a hot summer day, Esther Minton wears a long-sleeved shirt to work.

“Working outside, you don’t have cover. There’s nowhere for you to really go if you’re on a roof or if you’re on the side of a building,” said Minton, a member of the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 28 in New York City. “Having the sun beaming on your skin all day long, you’ll never make it through, so what you wear makes a difference.”

‘We don’t have time for more promises’: the Croatian town that took on an illegal waste dump

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:48 +0000

After years of illegal mass flytipping in Gospić, fed-up residents decided to take matters into their own hands

“Gospić is our home,” Željka Šikić shouted to a crowd of 40,000 people outside the Croatian parliament earlier this month. The slogan is the name of a campaign she helped to set up to protest against the illegal dumping of waste in Gospić, a town in the mountainous Lika region of central Croatia.

Week in wildlife: a tiny tiger-cat, backyard bears and a frilly pink sea cucumber

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:43 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Friday briefing: How a grassroots film is turning climate anxiety into action

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:45:15 +0000

In today’s newsletter: The People’s Emergency Briefing delivers a stark warning about our future in a warming world. But sharing difficult truths collectively shows us that there is still hope to be found

Good morning. Here we are, stumbling into an oddly warm autumn and with the aftermath of a ceaselessly dry summer all around us in our parched parks and fire-ravaged forests.

The Guardian view on a supersized El Niño: a natural phenomenon and human folly are a lethal combination | Editorial

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:37:39 +0000

Hundreds of thousands are expected to die, millions to go hungry. This is not just about weather patterns, but about injustice

Gavin Newsom condemns Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’, predicts Trump’s downfall and expects AOC to run in 2028

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:00:24 +0000

Democrats must show links of climate shocks to ‘kitchen table’ issues, California governor says

It’s a mistake for Democratic politicians not to talk about climate change, and the reason they don’t is “because they don’t know how to talk about it”, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, said on Wednesday in an interview with the Guardian and the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.

Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’

Rick Wakeman has played to all kinds of people around the globe, but he has now performed to an audience he had never encountered before – an enclosure of 150 bears.

The former Yes musician, who has gone on to have a prolific solo career, played the piano at a Vietnamese bear sanctuary.