Breaking Waves: Ocean News

2025 is ‘year of the octopus’ as record numbers spotted off England’s south coast

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:01:19 +0000

Milder weather led to a bloom in the invertebrates in south Cornwall and Devon, wildlife charity says

Record numbers of sightings of one of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates over the summer have led the Wildlife Trusts to declare 2025 “the year of the octopus” in its annual review of Britain’s seas.

Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:00:19 +0000

Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws

Caged hens will be a thing of the past in England, the government has announced, as it launches a package of new animal welfare laws.

Forget elf on the shelf – these Aussie birds are perfect for the festive season | Jess Harwood

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:13:06 +0000

Magpie on a mince pie anyone?

Sea change: the drive to restore millions of oysters on the Norfolk coast

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:00:02 +0000

The first ever mass deployment of mother reef bricks aims to rebuild habitats – and could reshape the North Sea

Allie Wharf’s career unfolded amid conflict. As a senior foreign producer for Newsnight, she reported on Iraq and Afghanistan. Just two years ago, she was filming mass graves in Ukraine.

UK supermarkets turn to European turkeys as avian flu hits supply

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:00:02 +0000

Asda, Lidl and Morrisons understood to be stocking imported branded turkeys to meet Christmas demand

Several of the UK’s big supermarkets have been forced to source turkeys from elsewhere in Europe to keep shelves stocked this Christmas, after avian flu curtailed UK production.

Asda, Lidl and Morrisons are understood to be stocking branded turkey imported from mainland Europe – a move industry sources described as “unprecedented” – to “protect availability” and ensure sufficient supply for festive meals.

‘The biggest transformation in a century’: how California remade itself as a clean energy powerhouse

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:00:33 +0000

The Golden State’s clean energy use hit new highs in 2025. As the Trump administration abandons US climate initiatives, can California fill the void?

As officials from around the world met in Brazil for the Cop30 climate summit last month, the US president was nowhere to be found, nor were any members of his cabinet. Instead, the most prominent American voice in Belém was that of the California governor, Gavin Newsom.

‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:00:28 +0000

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts

The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded.

This year’s Christmas could be Britain’s greenest yet, energy operator says

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:00:25 +0000

System operator Neso predicts lowest carbon intensity ever on Christmas Day after new wind and solar power come online

Britain’s energy system operator has predicted that this year’s Christmas Day could be the greenest yet.

If the weather remains mild and windy for the rest of December, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) has said it could record the lowest carbon intensity – the measure of how much carbon dioxide is released to produce electricity – recorded on the network for 25 December.

When is a sausage not really a sausage? Ask the meat lobby | George Monbiot

admin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:00:26 +0000

European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent ‘confusion’. Just don’t mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings

Most of what you eat is sausages. I mean, if we’re going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means “seasoned with salt”. You might think of a sausage as a simple thing, but on this reading it is everything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.

Trump’s EPA wants to weaken formaldehyde protections – this is what it could mean

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:30:01 +0000

EPA proposed undoing Biden-era policy on exposure to carcinogenic toxin in latest push to weaken toxin standards