Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Sharks found to eat sea urchins as large as their heads in accidental discovery by Australian researchers

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:02:44 +0000

Researchers tethered 50 long-spined and 50 short-spined urchins outside lobster den and sharks were observed ‘smashing the whole thing’

Researchers wanted to study lobsters eating sea urchins. But sharks ate their lunch — video

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:01:27 +0000

An experiment designed to investigate the role lobsters play in regulating sea urchin numbers unexpectedly found sharks were eating them instead. The research, led by the University of Newcastle marine ecologist Jeremy Day, involved 50 long-spined and 50 short-spined sea urchins tethered to the entrance of a lobster den on the south coast of NSW. Over the course of 25 nights, sharks ate 45 of the urchins, while lobsters ate only four. Sea urchins are native to NSW but have become are a pest in Tasmania, where they are threatening local ecosystems

Week in wildlife in pictures: bears caught in the act, a glamorous seal and a fugitive emu

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:00:47 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Collins Street falcons: two chicks have hatched on skyscraper and are taking meals – video

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 05:47:46 +0000

The stars of 367 Collins Street have welcomed baby birds to the nest. Two hungry chicks are taking meals after entering the world on a Melbourne skyscraper. Last year’s eggs were unable to hatch after the mother stopped incubating – likely due to a territorial dispute – making the stakes all the higher this year

Good eggs: fans delighted as new peregrine falcon chicks hatch on Melbourne skyscraper

Gap in Albanese government’s new fuel efficiency rules means ‘biggest, dirtiest polluters’ exempt

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:26:25 +0000

New vehicle efficiency standards (NVES) will not apply to at least four large vehicles, source says

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:01:37 +0000

Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans

What is carbon capture, usage and storage?

Rachel Reeves is paving the way for a multibillion-pound increase in public-sector investment at the budget after the government announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund carbon capture and storage projects.

The true global impact of species-loss caused by humans is far greater than expected

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 18:54:35 +0000

The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range of different roles and functions that birds undertake within the environment -- and resulted in the loss of approximately 3 billion years of unique evolutionary history, according to a new study.

Fracking explained: why the fossil fuel extraction process became a US election issue

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:10:17 +0000

Harris reiterates she won’t ban fracking if elected as Trump runs ads stating the opposite in tight Pennsylvania race

‘We need ’em worse than they need us’: how Haitian workers feed the US

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:00:32 +0000

Laborers from the Caribbean nation pick berries and process Thanksgiving turkeys across rural America

On a foggy morning in June 2021, I left my Durham, North Carolina, home to travel two and a half hours to rural Whiteville, North Carolina, population 5,000-ish. I headed there to meet some of the town’s newest, albeit temporary, residents: 200 Haitian migrants employed as blueberry pickers.

How bad will flooding get by 2100? These AI images show US destinations underwater

admin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:00:27 +0000

Sea levels along the US coastline could rise as much as 12in from 2020 to 2050 due to climate crisis, scientists warn

Floods affecting much of the south-east US show the destructive force of higher sea levels and warmer temperatures. Now, researchers at the non-profit Climate Central are using artificial intelligence to predict how climate-related flooding will affect US communities into the next 75 years if warming continues at its current pace.