Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Weather tracker: Early snowfall in New York and a storm rips down lights in Spain

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:24:37 +0000

Long Island receives 8.5in of snow, while a tornado tears down Christmas decorations near Málaga

Heavy snow fell in parts of New England this week. Central Park, New York, received a few inches of snow, while 8.5in were dumped in parts of Long Island. This is the earliest New York has experienced snowfall since 2018.

‘I can’t think of a place more pristine’: 133,000 hectares of Chilean Patagonia preserved after local fundraising

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:00:01 +0000

Exclusive: Ancient forests and turquoise rivers of the Cochamó Valley protected from logging, damming and development

A wild valley in Chilean Patagonia has been preserved for future generations and protected from logging, damming and unbridled development after a remarkable fundraising effort by local groups, the Guardian can reveal.

Week in wildlife: honeymooning owls, an otter on the razz and a magical frog

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:00:54 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:52 +0000

Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates

The UK’s largest proposed datacentre is understating the scale of its planned water use, according to an analysis.

The first phase of construction for the hyperscale campus in Cambois in Northumberland has been given the go-ahead by the local council. The US operator QTS, which is developing the site, has promoted its “water-free” cooling system as proof of its sustainability.

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests

admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:00:52 +0000

In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis

‘You learn tricks to reduce it’: the smart bins measuring food waste in South Korea

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:29:09 +0000

Digital facilities that track wastage down to the gram have brought about behavioural change among users

Min Geum-nan walks towards a metal bin beneath her apartment block in Gangdong district, eastern Seoul carrying a small bag of vegetable peelings. She taps her resident card on the reader, the lid swings open, she empties the contents and scans again and a digital screen flashes: 0.5kg.

“You have no choice but to pay attention because you can see exactly what you’re wasting,” says Min, who has lived in the complex for 15 years and watched the system arrive in 2020.

‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:00:02 +0000

Scientists say government must prepare for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels

The worst-case impacts of the climate crisis for the UK have been laid bare by scientists, ranging from a scorching 4C rise in temperatures to a 2-metre rise in sea level. Another scenario sees a plunge of 6C in temperature after the collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents, massively disrupting farming and energy needs.

Rainfall creates crimson spectacle at beach on Iran’s Hormuz Island

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:56:54 +0000

Streams of soil turn sand and surrounding water red, creating sharp contrast with blue waters of Persian Gulf

Rainfall on Iran’s Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep red.

The beach is known for its vivid red sand and cliffs, created by high concentrations of iron oxide.

Rain transforms Iranian beach into striking red spectacle – video

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:44:56 +0000

Rainfall on Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep red. The beach is known for its vivid red sand and cliffs, created by high concentrations of iron oxide

Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:57:29 +0000

Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserve

Environmental groups and local campaigners in the Basque Country have welcomed the scrapping of a project to build an outpost of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum on a Unesco biosphere reserve that is a vital habitat for local wildlife and migrating birds.