Breaking Waves: Ocean News

I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin

admin — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:08 +0000

As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, the lesson is urgent

Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?

This vast frozen continent is encircled by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only current in the world that connects all the oceans, showing how closely linked our planet really is.

Koalas face death, attacks and starvation as blue gums chopped down in Victoria

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:00:04 +0000

The state government is aware of koala welfare problems but says it has ‘no cost-effective’ solutions

NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:00:03 +0000

Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’

The hidden underwater eden of ‘California’s Galapagos’, where seals and grizzly bear-sized bass reign

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 15:00:57 +0000

On the remote Channel Islands, a draw for researchers and divers, preservation has transformed the ecosystem

Just 14 miles (23km) off the southern California coast lies a vast underwater paradise.

Fixing England’s water isn’t just the right thing to do – it can be the start of Labour’s fightback | Clive Lewis

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:00:53 +0000

There is an appetite in this country for policy that will change lives. What is more fundamental than the water we use and bills we pay?

Aphids plaguing UK gardens in warm spring weather, says RHS

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 06:00:46 +0000

Sap-sucking insects top list of queries to gardening charity after causing significant harm to plants

Aphids are plaguing gardeners this spring due to the warm weather, with higher numbers of the rose-killing bugs expected to thrive in the UK as a result of climate breakdown.

The sap-sucking insects have topped the ranking of gardener queries to the Royal Horticultural Society, with many of its 600,000 members having complained of dozens of aphids on their acers, roses and honeysuckle plants.

The false promise of deep-sea mining

admin — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 10 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00127-4

The false promise of deep-sea mining

First fossil evidence of endangered tropical tree discovered

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 17:22:16 +0000

Scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo, and reveals a critical piece of the ancient history of Asia's rainforests, highlighting the urgent need for conservation in the region, according to researchers.

Heat and land use: Bees suffer in particular

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:21:13 +0000

In a new study, researchers are investigating the interaction of major global change drivers on insects.

Plastics in everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine, study finds

admin — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:15:03 +0000

Findings show for first time how plastic chemicals throw off the body’s internal clock by up to 17 minutes

Chemicals in everyday plastics may disrupt the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in a way similar to coffee, which increases the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems and cancer, new in vitro research shows.