Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Tesla investors brace for global sales data amid consumer backlash over Elon Musk

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:35:36 +0000

First-quarter deliveries will be significantly down, say analysts, with the CEO and his links with Donald Trump the ‘core toxic issue’

‘They started nibbling at its head’: the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:00:42 +0000

South Africa’s Marion Island is a breeding ground for the birds, but their chicks are being eaten alive by rodents. Now, the world’s largest operation to eradicate the invasive species is about to get under way

Spain’s wild horses in peril – in pictures

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:00:42 +0000

By grazing between trees and removing potential wildfire fuel, wild horses help protect Galicia’s delicate ecosystems, but Europe’s largest herd has declined to just 10,000

Rain records to fall in Queensland with Townsville to set new annual high – in April

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:39:42 +0000

Meanwhile, Adelaide records driest period in decades and Perth swelters through temperatures above 35C

Cadia goldmine operators fined $350,000 for breaches of NSW clean-air laws

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:56:03 +0000

Testing had previously revealed the mine was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals

Peatland burning ban aims to protect wildlife and England’s carbon stores

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:00:32 +0000

Labour’s measures to ban deep-peat burning aim to safeguard habitats, tackle carbon emissions, and protect wildlife, so why are hunters up in arms?

Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions.

Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants that grow after the burn. This increases the number of birds available to be shot for sport.

The Guardian view on new forests: a vision born in the Midlands is worth imitating | Editorial

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:25:23 +0000

If a tree-planting scheme in western England can match the first national forest, people as well as wildlife will benefit

Bloom or bust? Superbloom spectacle eludes California after dry winter

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:00:22 +0000

Riot of native wildflowers that enthralled visitors in the past several years have failed to sprout due to too little rain

It’s one of the best known rites of spring in California: extraordinary displays known as “superblooms” that coat the hillsides in an abundance of color. Some years the blooms are massive enough to draw tourists from around the world to revel in the fields, such as in 2023 when more than 100,000 people showed up on a weekend to gawk at the poppies in Lake Elsinore, a small city about an hour outside Los Angeles.

Australia’s best photos of the month – March 2025

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 14:00:21 +0000

Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best images

Of tinkerers and dreamers: striving to be the fastest on the salt on Lake Gairdner

Queensland premier warns worst flooding yet to come after NSW man swept away by rising waters

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:10:38 +0000

Man had been attempting to cross a causeway through rising flood waters that have now cut off a campsite, stranding more than 20 people