Loggerhead turtles abound this season but rollback of Endangered Species Act protections could threaten future
Wildlife groups in Florida are celebrating record numbers of sea turtle nests this season, but experts warn Donald Trump’s recent gutting of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) could reverse decades of their recovery from the edge of extinction.
With more than two months of the summer nesting season still to run, loggerhead turtles have already made 13,770 nests, hundreds more than recorded in any previous year, along an 8.5-mile stretch of shoreline monitored by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, on Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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Breaking Waves: Ocean News
08/16/2026 - 07:00
08/16/2026 - 06:33
Nurses collapsing, builders with heatstroke, bus drivers in cabs that reach 44C. The new PM wanted to spend the summer talking about the cost of living – he should change his plans
I don’t think I have ever written before about a British strike directly related to the climate emergency. But that’s exactly what began late last week in north London, with a zeitgeisty connection to Andy Burnham’s fixation on buses: picket lines outside depots and massed walkouts, while the temperatures in the relevant parts of the capital and its suburbs hovered at about 34C (93F).
Last Friday, more than 1,500 drivers employed by the transport giant Arriva began a planned run of 26 stoppages through to October, affecting bus routes spread between London and Essex. Everything is being led by the union Unite, whose recent grievances include alleged company union-busting and assaults by the public on staff. But the fundamental basis of the dispute is at the heart of the national condition: the near-impossibility for millions of people of working through another insanely hot summer.
John Harris is a Guardian columnist
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08/16/2026 - 04:00
Molendotech will collate data from daily tests that detect E coli and other bacteria amid reports of swimmers falling ill
A UK university spinout behind a rapid bacterial water testing kit is planning to launch live water quality maps, as scores of beachgoers report falling ill after swimming.
Molendotech, a spinout from the University of Plymouth, sells a portable test that detects E coli and other bacteria in water and delivers results on the spot, without waiting for days to get laboratory results.
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08/16/2026 - 04:00
New rules could affect nine in 10 rental properties in duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster and at Sandringham
King Charles and Prince William could be forced to spend up to £10m upgrading hundreds of rental properties on their private estates to meet planned energy-efficiency rules.
The government has announced that landlords will need to ensure their properties have energy performance certificate (EPC) ratings of C or higher by 2030 – up from the current requirement of an E.
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08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66901-7
Development of samarium-153 oxide loaded polystyrene radiotracer particles for gamma scintigraphy of whole gastrointestinal transit study
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66659-y
Experiences of kinesiophobia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative phenomenological study
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-63846-9
Correction: A five-dimensional classical framework for gravitational and quantum phenomena
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-66068-1
Multi-level violence recognition via hybrid convolutional-attention and recurrent architectures
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-64954-2
AlzheiNN: a convolutional neural network-based model for Alzheimer’s disease classification
08/11/2026 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-62801-y
Model-free multiparametric analysis of SHG images reveals collagen signatures in breast cancer
