Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Louisiana gears up for first recreational alligator hunt in more than 50 years

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:16:46 +0000

State to offer up to 5,000 trappers chance to snare reptiles whose numbers have risen to 3m from fewer than 100,000

The first recreational alligator hunt in Louisiana in more than half a century is about to commence in the swamps of that state, with up to 5,000 hopeful trappers facing strict rules in order to snare a reptile.

The state’s fish and wildlife commission banned alligator hunting in 1962 to allow the species to recover after decades of unregulated killings for meat and hides dropped numbers there to below 100,000.

Labour rejects Zack Polanski’s call to ‘slam brakes’ on building AI datacentres

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:11:46 +0000

Government says Green leader’s proposed moratorium on ‘energy-guzzling’ AI projects would be disaster for economy

Labour has rejected calls to pause construction of major AI infrastructure in Britain after the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, said it was time to “slam the brakes on these energy-guzzling, water-guzzling datacentres”.

This US city only has one supermarket for 45,000 people. New legislation seeks to fix that

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:00:07 +0000

Big grocery can use anti-competitive clauses to block other stores from entering a market. Rhode Island is the second state to ban that practice

Jeannine Johansen remembers the halcyon days of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, when so many of its steep streets were punctuated by grocery stores: Almacs, A&P, Piggly Wiggly and Star Market. In the blizzard of 1978, “everybody went to Fernandes [Produce] because Stop & Shop was too far, and all the roads were closed, so we had to walk”, said the native Woonsocketer.

Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:58 +0000

Decision to rescind ‘roadless rule’ opens more than 45m acres of national forests to roads, drilling and logging

More than 400 endangered animal and plant species could face accelerated extinction after the Donald Trump administration’s decision to rescind a rule that has protected old-growth forests for more than two decades.

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:56 +0000

As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

Leaping flames, searing heat, copious sweat and scorchingly inventive swearing – restaurant kitchens are never a place for the faint-hearted, but this summer they have been sweltering in successive heatwaves to a dangerous degree.

Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis | Sunil Acharya

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:56:29 +0000

Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price – with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for education and health – for global heating caused by wealthy states

Sunil Acharya is an international climate policy and just transition specialist based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Nepal-Tibet flood rescue efforts resume after being halted by overflowing lake

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:40:22 +0000

Risk of fresh flooding had forced rescue teams to withdraw as residents rushed up hills to escape possible river surge

Dolphin dies from H5 bird flu in SA as researchers withdrawn from sub-Antarctic island over ‘psychosocial risk’

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:40:40 +0000

Expeditioners at research station on Macquarie Island will be evacuated over possible ‘psychological stress’, while 100 dead little penguins found on Tasmanian island

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‘Nature thrives when given a chance’: restored Cheshire wetland now a haven for rare grebe

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:00:47 +0000

Woolston Eyes in Warrington, a dumping ground for canal dredgings, has become best place in UK for black-necked grebe

A dumping ground for dredgings from the Manchester Ship Canal has become the best place in Britain for the rare and beautiful black-necked grebe, hosting 64% of Britain’s breeding population.

Since 2021, Woolston Eyes in Cheshire has been restored, extended and turned into a mosaic of freshwater pools, reedbeds, willow scrub and rough grassland, managed by the RSPB and Woolston Eyes Conservation Group.

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:25:13 +0000

Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe