Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Are we heading for ‘super El Nino’ – and what could we expect?

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:38 +0000

Experts say climate pattern could supercharge extreme weather events and push temperatures to record highs

There is a high likelihood that the phenomenon known as “El Niño” will emerge this summer – and it could be exceptionally strong. A so-called “super El Niño” could supercharge extreme weather events and push global temperatures to record heights next year if it develops, according to experts.

Meteorologists are keeping a close eye on the climate patterns developing in the Pacific Ocean that will enable stronger predictions about what’s to come in the year ahead.

Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:38 +0000

For long a dumping ground for pollutants, the Great Lake is being seeded with sensor buoys to make it the world’s largest digitally connected body of freshwater

There was a time in the 1960s that the lakes and rivers around Cleveland were so polluted with petrochemicals and other contaminants that they frequently caught on fire.

A messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma Beddington

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:00:18 +0000

I’ve just watched another of my neighbours rip up everything green and growing around their home. It’s enough to make David Attenborough weep

‘Reverse-gentrify the country’: how Black and Indigenous intentional communities are reclaiming land

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:16 +0000

From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition

Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:01:00 +0000

Study identified eight areas that can sustain a population and government has given £1m for recovery programme

“The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.” So wrote Shakespeare in Richard III, in a line of social commentary that feels ever more relevant with age.

A note of good news then, in a world of so much bad, that the eagles the Bard was probably referring to could finally be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years.

Madeline Horwath on spring picnics – cartoon

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:00:45 +0000

The war over Omagh’s gold: the £21bn mine plan tearing a community apart

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:00:41 +0000

On Monday, a public inquiry will reopen, nine years after the plan was proposed and a toxic local battle began

When Fidelma O’Kane retired more than a decade ago from her career as a social worker and lecturer, she thought she would be “travelling and having a glass of wine and eating chocolate and reading books” while based in the quiet, hilly corner of rural County Tyrone where she has lived almost all her life.

An environmental disaster in Moldova has Russia’s fingerprints all over it | Paula Erizanu

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:00:37 +0000

The Ukraine war on our doorstep is a constant threat. Contaminated drinking water is a dangerous new twist

In the second week of March, the nature vlogger Ilie Cojocari went out to film the arrival of spring on the Nistru (Dniester) river, 70 metres away from his home in Naslavcea, a village bordering Ukraine on the northernmost point of Moldova. But as he approached the river he could smell the stench of oil rising up from the water and see dark spots floating on its surface. Something was wrong.

Anger as swifts’ nesting holes in Derbyshire rail viaduct ‘blocked up’

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:26:46 +0000

Campaigners say birds could die trying to access ancestral nests that were sealed during rail refurbishment

Some swifts returning to Britain to breed will be unable to access their ancestral nesting holes after they were blocked in a £7.5m refurbishment of a Derbyshire railway viaduct, campaigners say.

Nature lovers had appealed to Network Rail to unblock three holes which were among at least nine swift nesting sites on the twin viaducts at Chapel Milton, on the edge of the Peak District.

‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:16 +0000

The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas