Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Federal EPA a ‘very high and immediate’ priority of Albanese government, environment minister says

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 08:06:20 +0000

Murray Watt is also considering ditching the ‘nature positive’ title for Labor’s overhaul of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act

Week in wildlife: hitchhiking cygnets, a criminal duck and hopping hares

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:00:49 +0000

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

‘Rough end to the weekend’: wintry weather on the way for south-east Australia

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:01:17 +0000

In Melbourne, 14C was the forecast maximum for Saturday, with a high chance of showers, the BoM says

‘We sometimes milked 3,000 snails a day!’: the dying art of milking molluscs

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:00:48 +0000

For 1,500 years, Mexico’s Mixtec people have extracted ink from the rare purpura snail to dye yarn. But they fear the species – and their rich tradition – may soon be lost for ever

Police raid Oregon safari park amid reports of starving lions and dead tiger left for months

admin — Fri, 16 May 2025 00:31:06 +0000

West Coast Game Park Safari, popular attraction that has more than 450 animals, accused of multiple violations

Delay farmer inheritance tax changes ‘to allow for better formulation’, say MPs

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:01:39 +0000

Report says proposals ‘threaten to affect most vulnerable’, who would be helped by more time to seek advice

A group of influential MPs has urged the government to delay controversial planned changes to inheritance tax for farmers to “allow for better formulation of tax policy” and to protect vulnerable farmers by giving them more time to seek advice.

Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:46:06 +0000

Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers

Ministers plan to use new powers to block bosses from Thames Water taking bonuses worth hundreds of thousands of pounds as the company fights for survival, the Guardian can reveal.

Britain’s biggest water company admitted this week that senior managers are in line for “substantial” bonuses linked to an emergency £3bn loan.

The Guardian view on green homes: solar panels and heat pumps should be a bare minimum | Editorial

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:30:32 +0000

Ministers must resist pressure to relax environmental standards in the rush for new housing

‘No one wants a building that kills birds’: why cities are turning off the lights

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:37:27 +0000

As avian numbers plunge, activists demand action to save birds from crashing into high-rise blocks

The wren’s legs were tucked delicately underneath its diminutive body, slumped on its side as if asleep. If it wasn’t lying on the bare concrete of a Texas street, there would be few clues that it had endured a crunching, violent death.

Echidna mothers change their pouch microbiome to protect tiny ‘pink jelly bean’ puggles, new research finds

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:00:35 +0000

Egg-laying monotremes have no nipples, so young rub their beaks against ‘milk patch’ to get milk from mother’s skin