Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Beaker Street Science Photography prize – in pictures

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:00:43 +0000

Finalists for 2025 will be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 to 31 August as part of the Beaker Street festival and will include the first-ever image of a wild eastern quoll glowing under UV light

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More than half of koalas relocated to NSW forest died in failed government attempt at reintroduction

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:00:42 +0000

Exclusive: Translocation and deaths of seven out of 13 koalas in April, with some showing signs of septicaemia, not made public by state government

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How US immigration raids hurt summer pleasures, from berries to barbecues

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:00:40 +0000

In the US, hardly a food is untouched by immigrant labor – and Ice raids will profoundly affect the food labor system

How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:00:40 +0000

Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead

Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:39 +0000

Previously, the only way to reduce levels of Pfas was by bloodletting or a drug with unpleasant side effects

There was a deal to fix this Alabama community’s raw sewage crisis. Trump tore it up over DEI

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:00:38 +0000

Residents of Alabama’s Lowndes county are still fighting for basic sanitation after Trump’s DoJ canceled a landmark Biden-era agreement

Thelma and Willie Perryman spend most days out front of their family trailer in rural Alabama, shooting the breeze while enjoying the birdsong – and making sure their three-year-old grandson doesn’t wander into the sewage-sodden back yard.

On Country: photography from Australia 2025 – in pictures

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:00:20 +0000

Co-produced by PHOTO Australia Melbourne and the Rencontres d’Arles, the exhibition marks the first major presentation of Australian photography at the world’s longest-running photo festival

‘A monumental moment’: world’s leading photography festival puts Australia in focus

Texas Hill Country under flood watch as search continues for missing people

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:40:05 +0000

‘Locally heavy rainfall’ of 1-3in predicted as death toll from the Fourth of July flood rises to nearly 130 people

Texas Hill Country was back under a flood watch on Saturday, with the National Weather Service warning of “locally heavy rainfall” of 1-3in with isolated amounts close to 6in possible.

Thames Water spent £136m on securing emergency funding, leaked document suggests

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:00:07 +0000

‘Atypical expenditure’ document suggests utility’s costs over 12 months outstripped the £130m it paid in fines

Thames Water spent at least £136m on the effort to secure emergency funding over 12 months, according to a leaked document that suggests costs outstripped the £130m the struggling utility paid in fines.

Risotto rice under threat from flamingos in north-eastern Italy

admin — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 04:00:02 +0000

Farmers are seeking ways to fend off birds who are stirring up soil in flooded paddy fields in Ferrara province

An unusual bird is ravaging crops and infuriating farmers in north-eastern Italy: the flamingo.

Flamingos are relatively recent arrivals in the area, and have settled into the flooded fields that produce rice for risotto in Ferrara province, between Venice and Ravenna.