Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:00:21 +0000

Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

Human bodies are like cities, teeming with microcitizens – vast communities of viruses, fungi and bacteria that live all over our skin and inside us. Unsung public servants help us digest food, regulate our immune system, defend against pathogens, and keep hormones in check. Together, they make up what we call the human microbiome.

Week in wildlife: a tiger in a tube, migrating crabs and busy Highland beavers

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:00:20 +0000

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

Weather tracker: Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Caribbean

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:50:21 +0000

Category 5 storm is most powerful to strike Jamaica and has caused death and destruction in Cuba and Haiti

Hurricane Melissa has wreaked havoc across parts of the Caribbean in recent days, after first making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday night as a category 5 storm – the highest strength. This was the most powerful storm to strike the island nation, packing winds of up to 185mph at its peak.

BoM says October will be hottest ever for Queensland and NT as heat records tumble

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:43:47 +0000

Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin are predicted to hit hottest October in terms of maximum temperatures, the Bureau of Meteorology says

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Vietnam floods: streets of Hoi An submerged like canals of Venice – in pictures

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:54:39 +0000

Flooding that killed 10 people in central Vietnam this week turned streets in the historic town of Hoi An into canals on Thursday after a major river reached a 60-year high, authorities say. The Unesco heritage-listed town is among the country’s most popular tourist destinations

Paint me cool: scientists reveal roof coating that can reduce surface temperatures up to 6C on hot days

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:39:04 +0000

Sydney researchers commercialising a product they say can cool indoor spaces and will cost little more than standard premium paints

US climate activists condemn 18-month jail term for nonviolent art museum protester

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:52:18 +0000

‘It’s hard to fathom how a peaceful protester can receive more prison time than many of the insurrectionists,’ said one researcher, of Timothy Martin’s sentence

Climate activists have condemned an 18-month jail term for a nonviolent protester who vandalized a display case at the National Gallery of Art as “grossly disproportionate” and a violation of the constitutional protected rights to free speech and peaceful protest.

Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:55:51 +0000

Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it

Ahead of next month’s major United Nations climate talks in Brazil, Gina McCarthy, the former Environmental Protection Agency head, said US cities and states were keeping the climate fight alive despite an all-out assault from the Trump administration.

Ken Henry warns ‘conga line of developers’ would try to exploit exemptions in Labor’s proposed nature laws

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:00:06 +0000

Exclusive: ‘Every project developer is absolutely convinced that their project is in the national interest,’ Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation boss says

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Despite what a thinktank bleats to the Coalition, heat deaths are in fact ‘a thing’ | Temperature Check

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:00:04 +0000

Centre for Independent Studies points to climate risk report to back up its dismissal of heat-related deaths, but neglects to use the part that actually concerns the future