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La Niña is finishing an extremely unusual three-year cycle – here's how it affected weather around the world

It was anchovy fishermen in Peru who first noticed and named El Niño events in the tropical Pacific hundreds of years ago. Their catches would fluctuate and the largest declines were seen near Christmas when the ocean was at its warmest – they called it El Niño de Navidad, the…

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‘One of the most important talks no one has heard of’: why the high seas treaty matters

The pressure is building around critical negotiations that could, if successful, shield swathes of the world’s ocean

The Guardian - UK

Olympic sailing star rides winds of change

Olympic silver medallist sailor Alex Maloney has broadened her horizons - both on and off the water, with new crewmates and new career opportunities. But a third Olympics beckons, Suzanne McFadden writes.

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Fisker Picks ChargePoint As North American Public Charging Partner

The deal will provide Fisker Ocean owners with access to more than 210,000 active ports under ChargePoint management, including over 16,700 DC fast chargers.

InsideEVs

Some Heavy Elements May Have “Surfed” to Earth on Supernova Shock Waves

Computer models suggest that heavy elements rode shock waves from supernovas to our planet, according to evidence from rocks found on the ocean floor.

Inverse

Young boy shipped to different country while playing hide and seek reunited with family

Fahim, a young lad from Bangladesh, was taken 2,000 miles across the Indian Ocean to Malaysia after getting trapped inside a shipping container during a game of hide and seek

Daily Mirror

Agony on a Cornish beach: what do whale strandings tell us about our oceans?

The number of whales, porpoises and dolphins being washed up on the UK’s shores is on the rise, and human activity is largely to blame, say experts

The Guardian - UK

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People smugglers keep trying to recruit this boat captain. Here's why he says no

By day, Saint-Louis native Pape Dieye is a boat captain-turned-tour guide for a fancy hotel that caters to Westerners. By night, he turns down requests to smuggle human beings across the ocean.

WEKU

UK is ‘lacking credibility’ at global ocean treaty talks, say campaigners

International negotiations are taking place in New York that aim to establish legally protected areas throughout the world’s oceans.

The Independent UK

US beach town bans balloons to save the ocean

Experts say more cities should join the growing legislative trend to reduce trash, save birds and protect against wildfires

The Guardian - US

Australia to make area the size of Germany a marine park in Southern Ocean

Plan to triple size of Macquarie Island protection zone to shield ‘remote wildlife wonderland’

The Guardian - AU

Biden considers 1st offshore wind auction in Gulf of Mexico

The Biden administration said Wednesday it is considering the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico, a key part of a push to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 to help fight climate change

The Independent UK

NFL star Peyton Hillis opens up on heroically saving his two children from drowning

The NFL folk hero jumped into the ocean to save his two children from drowning and was in ICU after suffering severe lung and kidney damage where he remained in hospital for three weeks

Daily Mirror

Weakened Cyclone Freddy batters Madagascar, killing 4

A weakened Cyclone Freddy which pummeled Madagascar Tuesday night with heavy rains and strong destructive winds has killed four people and is continuing to wreak havoc in the southwest of the Indian Ocean nation

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Jane Fonda campaigns to save 'our brethren in the ocean'

Actress and activist Jane Fonda is campaigning for a treaty to save marine creatures that are hunted for food including sharks, swordfish, octopus and tuna, saying they feel joy, feel sadness when they lose their offspring, and “are our brethren in the ocean.”

Reuters

Analysis-How North Korea could use a Pacific 'firing range' to perfect its missiles

If North Korea follows through on its threat to turn the Pacific Ocean into a "firing range", it would allow the isolated and nuclear-armed state to make technical advances in addition to signalling its military resolve, analysts said.

The Conversation

104 shark and ray species now receive new protections, but are they enough?

Shark populations have been declining for years, largely due to overfishing. And for years, the solutions offered by researchers have included increasing the number, size and effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPA) and improving the global management of sharks and stingrays in fisheries that catch them.

The Conversation

Cyclones in southern Africa: five essential reads

Tropical cyclone Freddy was, on 21 February 2023, bearing down on Mauritius and Madagascar. Mauritius grounded flights and, news agency Reuters reported, emergency teams in four regions of Madagascar were braced for “heavy rains, floods and landslides”.

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Stronger El Niño events may speed up irreversible melting of Antarctic ice, research finds

New study shows impact of weather phenomenon could have a ‘double whammy’ effect, leading to worsening extreme weather and accelerating sea level rise

Zenger

Cyclone Freddy Putting The Nation Of Madagascar On Alert As The Storm Expected To Make An Impact

Fierce Tropical Cyclone Freddy has been on the watch of meteorologists since its beginnings in the far eastern Indian Ocean.

Newcastle Herald

'The market is forever changing': Property prices adjusted in Newcastle's top end to meet the market

The house was previously on the market for 127 days.

The Guardian - US

US protesters turn ire on wind farms to explain whale deaths – but where’s the evidence?

Controversy stirs in New Jersey along political lines as some scientists say wind turbine theory is ‘cynical disinformation’

The Independent UK

Mauritius closes airport in anticipation of cyclone Freddy

The Foreign Office has issued a travel alert for the Indian Ocean island

Reuters

Countries gather to thrash out U.N. ocean protection treaty

Delegations from hundreds of countries will meet in New York this week in an attempt to hammer out a new legally binding ocean protection treaty that green groups believe will decide whether efforts to safeguard global biodiversity can succeed.

WEKU

U.N. talks to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity will pick back up this week

The goal of the U.N. meetings is to produce a unified agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of the world's vast marine ecosystems.

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