Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Earth’s strongest ocean current could slow down by 20% by 2050 in a high emissions future

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Melting Antarctic ice is releasing cold, fresh water into the ocean, which is projected to cause the slowdown

Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase

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Scottish Wildlife Trust plans to create rainforest, restore peatland and end deer stalking on Highland sporting estate

Scottish conservationists hope to convert a Highland sporting estate into a rewilding showcase after a mystery benefactor gave them more than £17.5m to buy it.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT), best known for its small nature reserves, has bought Inverbroom estate near Ullapool in north-west Scotland, complete with an 11-bedroom lodge that boasts an indoor swimming pool.

Ocean rower Aurimas Mockus stranded by cyclone off Australia’s east coast safely rescued

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Lithuanian rower’s two-day wait to be rescued off Queensland comes to an end

The Guardian view on Labour eyeing green cuts: they would undermine growth and climate goals | Editorial

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Bold pledges to fund climate projects now appear under threat, exposing deeper fiscal constraints and policy dilemmas within the government

Dolomites soundscape and a nightingale’s song win nature music prize

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Inaugural Tune into Nature prize is aiming to highlight how the natural world is central to creative life

One is a dreamy soundscape collected from the peaks of the Dolomites. The other is a drum’n’bass track that samples a nightingale’s quickfire song.

These contrasting tunes have won the inaugural Tune into Nature music prize, a contest that seeks to showcase new music by upcoming artists that is inspired by the natural world.

A gorgeous flash of colour in a murky loch: how nudibranchs won my heart

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:00:04 +0000

With a beauty that belies its name, the sea slug is an invertebrate that reminds me of a happy Scottish summer

It has been a long time since I’ve thought about nudibranchs, let alone spotted one. But a lifetime ago, as a zoology undergraduate at Glasgow University, I spent hours underwater, swimming through kelp forests, corals and shipwrecks, looking out for the tiny, colourful creatures.

Never mind the planet’s fate when the jet set feel the urge to seek out some winter sun | Catherine Bennett

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Self-denial will save the Earth, we’re told. But big emitters seemingly haven’t had the memo

Mine copper without destroying the planet? London-based project gives scientists hope

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Experts hope research can create greener methods of extracting the metal vital for renewable energy revolution and boom in electrical devices

It is the key ingredient of bronze, the alloy that helped create some of the world’s greatest civilisations and took humanity out of the stone age on its way to modern times. For good measure, the metal is invaluable for electrical wiring, plumbing and industrial machinery. We owe a lot to copper.

Keir Starmer faces backbench rebellion over ‘shortsighted’ cuts to aid budget

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MPs ask ‘what will be left of Labour programme?’ amid calls for rethink and plan to speak out against decision

David Archer, let it go. Beavers are nature’s answer to our broken rivers | Helena Horton

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The cute rodent helps combat drought and boosts biodiversity. Its rewilding is welcome and long overdue

The first time I laid eyes on a beaver was a couple of years ago on the Devon farm of Derek Gow, the farmer turned rewilder, who brought the furry rodents back to the UK 30 years ago.