Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Texas floods: search continues with dozens dead or missing

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:06:34 +0000

Hundreds of rescuers searching for those missing in devastating floods including girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth camp

Texas continues grim flood recovery

Pope Leo has sent condolences to the families of devastating floods in Texas which killed at least 51 people and left nearly 30 others missing, many of them children.

Following Angelus prayers, the pontiff said:

‘We’ve made progress’: environment secretary is upbeat despite Labour’s struggles

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:00:34 +0000

Steve Reed says changes to living standards are happening and will make a big difference to trust in government

It was probably easier for Steve Reed to feel more cheerful about Labour’s most torrid week in government while sitting on bales of hay in the blazing sunshine about 40 miles from Westminster.

Deadly heatwaves are the new reality – we need to transform the UK's cities and towns to survive them | Hannah Martin

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 07:00:32 +0000

While we work towards net zero, we also need to adapt. And we can pay for cooling measures like splash pads and trees by taxing the worst polluters

As the world grows more unpredictable, Australia’s defence should be focused on people, not purchases | Julianne Schultz

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:00:19 +0000

Activating real civic resilience could be a KPI for the prime minister’s progressive patriotism, rather than spending billions more on big, shiny machines

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‘This bill protects our precious waters’: how a Florida environmental group scored a win against big oil

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 12:00:09 +0000

Following the destruction from 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, an anti-drilling coalition took action with HB 1143 – and got it signed by DeSantis

The giant and catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also known as the BP oil spill, didn’t reach Apalachicola Bay in 2010, but the threat of oil reaching this beautiful and environmentally valuable stretch of northern Florida’s Gulf coast was still enough to devastate the region’s economy.

Summer without cherry pie? Michigan’s signature crop faces battery of threats

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 11:00:09 +0000

Climate change, development, labor shortages and tariffs are making life the pits for the state’s cherry farmers

Nearly 100 years ago, north-west Michigan cherry farmers and Traverse City community leaders started a festival to promote the city and their region’s tart cherry crop as a tourist destination.

Texas flooding latest: 43 dead, including 15 children, as search for some two dozen girls continues – as it happened

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:15:59 +0000

Girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp along the Guadalupe River, are still missing, says city manager. This blog is now closed.

We have more from the Associated Press on Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian summer camp from which up to 25 people are missing.

Chloe Crane, a teacher and former Camp Mystic counsellor, said her heart broke when a fellow teacher shared an email from the camp about the missing girls.

How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster

admin — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 07:00:04 +0000

A14 in Cambridgeshire promised biodiversity net gain of 11.5%, but most of the 860,000 trees planted are dead. What went wrong?

Lorries thunder over the A14 bridge north of Cambridge, above steep roadside embankments covered in plastic shrouds containing the desiccated remains of trees.

Occasionally the barren landscape is punctuated by a flash of green where a young hawthorn or a fledgling honeysuckle has emerged apparently against the odds, but their shock of life is an exception in the treeless landscape.

Rare butterfly hits purple patch at Sussex rewilding project

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Ecologists say 283 purple emperor recordings on one day at Knepp signal higher numbers nationwide

A conservation project in West Sussex has had its best day on record for rare purple emperor butterfly sighting, and ecologists say they are confident the species is doing well nationally.

These women are raising endangered butterfly larvae from prison: ‘They reconnect with their own brilliance’

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:00:45 +0000

The women are raising larvae of the endangered Taylor’s checkerspot for release into the wild

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.

Of the many things the team here has tried to tempt larvae of the Taylor’s checkerspot – a native of the Pacific north-west – with, it is the invasive English plantain they seem to love the most.