Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:00:09 +0000

Bird organisations say more research on the species needed to control impact on other wildlife

In the past 20 years, the soundscape in the ancient wild, rolling landscape of Richmond Park has been transformed. Once you would have heard the chirrup of the stonechat, the chirp of the greater spotted woodpecker or the song of the skylark. Today, the auditory power of one bird dominates.

What makes an elephant abandon her calf – and is it a growing problem?

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:00:06 +0000

A helpless baby elephant has won the Thai public’s sympathy but her case has shed light on the pressures facing herds across Asia

Khao Tom, a two-month-old elephant, plays with a wildlife officer, nudging his face and curling her trunk around his wrist. When she lifts her trunk in the air, signalling that she is hungry, the team at the rescue centre seems relieved – she has not been eating well. A vet prepares a pint-sized bottle of formula, which she gulps down impatiently.

Week in wildlife: a hide-and-seek squirrel and an otter in a Christmas tree

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:00:05 +0000

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

What if floods left your home unsellable? That’s the reality facing more and more people in Britain | Kirsty Major

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:00:02 +0000

Christine wanted to enjoy her retirement, but then the banks of a local brook burst and turned her and her neighbours’ lives upside-down

Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:00:02 +0000

Exclusive: Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills

Ministers are poised to allow homes in England to be built without carbon-cutting technology in what experts have said is a climbdown after pressure from housebuilders.

Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:00:03 +0000

New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK, in what scientists have called a “visible signal” of climate breakdown disrupting the natural world.

Australian electric car market to get influx of new models as cheaper EVs hit the road in 2026

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:36:56 +0000

New utes, sports cars and hatchbacks will break price records at both ends as traditional brands release electric vehicles in 2026

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From rent to utility bills: the politicians and advocates making climate policy part of the affordability agenda

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:30:38 +0000

As the Trump administration derides climate policy as a ‘scam’, emissions-cutting measures are gaining popularity

A group of progressive politicians and advocates are reframing emissions-cutting measures as a form of economic populism as the Trump administration derides climate policy as a “scam” and fails to deliver on promises to tame energy costs and inflation.

Often brutal, always beautiful: the sea hounds of the Frisian Islands – in pictures

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:00:35 +0000

For 10 years, the scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk has been observing pinnipeds such as seals and walruses on the fragile North Sea archipelago stretching along the Dutch, German and Danish coastline. A remainder of the now-drowned Doggerland, left behind after the ice age, the low-lying islands are an advance warning sign of the warming and rising seas of the climate crisis

World is in better place than when Eden Project created 25 years ago, founder says

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:00:30 +0000

Tim Smit also says extreme political views will fade when people realise good things around the corner

Sir Tim Smit says the world is in a better place than it was when he co-founded the Eden Project 25 years ago and he believes people are more attuned to the natural world.

Speaking as the project in Cornwall reaches its 25th anniversary, Smit describedextreme political views as the “roar” of people fearful that they cannot control the future but he said they would fade when people realised that good things were around the corner.