Breaking Waves: Ocean News

How mudlarking on the Thames unlocks London’s secret riches

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:00:12 +0000

As the London Museum announces a mudlarking exhibition, mudlarker Lara Maiklem says combing the foreshore can transport you back in time

Earlier this week, Lara Maiklem climbed down to the foreshore of the River Thames at low tide to spend several hours gently scrabbling at its surface in pursuit of a 20-year obsession.

People rescued from rooftops as flooding hits northern Italy – video

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:10:04 +0000

Firefighters have been rescuing people stranded on their balconies and rooftops after Storm Boris triggered flooding and landslides in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Two people were reported missing in Traversara, a hamlet in Ravenna province, and about 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. Storm Boris has battered parts of Italy after causing havoc in eastern and central Europe

‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:08 +0000

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

The occupants of the vinyl-coated military tents at this remote jungle camp in Brazil’s wild west compare the hellscape surrounding them to catastrophes old and new: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombardment of Gaza, the obliteration of Hiroshima during the second world war.

One year of Guardian Europe: different stories through a new lens

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:00:07 +0000

On 20 September 2023, the Guardian launched a new digital edition for a continent in the grip of dramatic political and social change. This is what we’ve learned so far – and how you can help us do more

Weather tracker: Shanghai hit by its ‘strongest typhoon in 75 years’

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:05:49 +0000

More than 400,000 people evacuated, hundreds of flights cancelled and many roads shut due to flooding and winds

Typhoon Bebinca struck the east coast of China this week, making landfall near Shanghai, a city of almost 30 million people, on Monday. Bebinca developed into a typhoon to the east of the southern Japan islands late last week, before traveling westwards through the East China Sea and making landfall in Shanghai at approximately 7.30am local time (00.30BST).

Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 07:00:04 +0000

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

Fish! Do they have feelings? Now everyone wants to know about the emotional lives of fish! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:34:19 +0000

Do fish feel despair or longing? Do they yearn for a simpler time?

Wildfires ravaging northern Portugal – in pictures

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:00:05 +0000

Since last week, wildfires have been raging in central and northern Portugal. At least seven people have died and 50 have been injured. More than 5,000 firefighters have been mobilised to battle the blazes

UK’s first ever bison bridges under construction in Kent woodland

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:00:01 +0000

Four bridges will allow herds to pass beneath public footpaths while visitors may catch glimpse of bison from above

When Europe’s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife.

But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space must be made for them – in the form of Britain’s first ever bison bridges.

‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

admin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 04:00:04 +0000

The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy

The Thriamvos company truck pulls up at noon outside the four-storey building in the heart of Nicosia.

It’s the third rooftop installation of a solar-powered water heating system that Petros Mihali and his assistant, Soteris, have made in the Cypriot capital since their working day began at 7am.