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Ottawa Citizen
4 days ago
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
Greyhounds Laus, Croskery named to Canadian U17 and U18 camps
Recent Soo Greyhounds signings Noah Laus and Callum Croskery have been named to the Canadian under-17 and under-18 camps, respectively, Hockey Canada announced Thursday afternoon. Article content Laus, the Hounds' 2025 first-round OHL Priority Selection pick (7th overall), is among 30 OHL draft picks who have been tapped for the national under-17 development camp. After continued evaluation through the start of the OHL season, a selected roster will compete in the U17 World Challenge this fall. Article content Article content Croskery, a 2024 second-round Soo selection, will participate with 19 other OHLers in the under-18 camp for a chance to play in the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup next month. That roster will be finalized by Aug. 3. Article content Article content Laus, 16, is joining the Hounds this season after ripping through the GTHL as the captain of the Toronto Jr. Canadiens U16 AAA program, scoring 42 points in 33 games. More impressive were his 13 points in seven OHL Cup games to win the championship and tournament all-star honours. Article content 'Noah is an incredibly versatile player who excels at both wing and centre. He plays with speed, physicality, and skill,' Greyhounds GM Kyle Raftis said following his signing on May 29. 'His ability to control the game, set up his linemates with exceptional vision, and unleash a powerful shot makes him a constant offensive threat.' Article content Article content Laus will compete against 47 other forwards who have been drafted to the Canadian Hockey League at the under-17 development camp. Article content As for Croskery, the slick six-foot defender is coming to the Soo this season after playing for the Chicago Steel of the USHL, where he amassed 10 points in 54 games. He also won the OHL Cup prior to being drafted by the Greyhounds, starring for the Oakville Rangers U16 AAA program. Article content He's also been where Laus is hoping to go — Croskery represented Team Canada White at the 2024 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, winning gold and recording two points in five games. Article content '[Croskery is] a smooth-skating defenceman who truly excels in transition, showing the ability to exit the defensive zone with poise by evading pressure, using space, and applying his vision to manage the puck and drive the pace of play,' Raftis said following his signing on June 4. Article content
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
As the Amazon's waves weaken, a surfer fights to protect them
By Sergio Queiroz, Adriano Machado and Manuela Andreoni ARARI, Brazil (Reuters) -Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run for dozens of miles. Record-breaking Brazilian surfer Sergio Laus fears that climate change and environmental degradation mean their days may be numbered. One early morning in late April, with a supermoon still in the sky, he trekked dozens of miles through the mud up the Mearim River, at the eastern tip of the Amazon, to surf the country's biggest remaining 'pororoca' and highlight the risk. The two-meter-high muddy waves that formed as the river narrowed between the lush mangroves at the margins amazed him, as they always did. "A wave breaks and dissolves," he said, of ocean waves. "This one just keeps gaining intensity. It's an Amazonian tsunami." Yet the waves were about half the size of what he saw here years ago - and even smaller than the five-meter waves he says he used to ride in the Araguari River further west before erosion caused by agriculture and nearby dams dried up Brazil's mightiest pororocas. "Looking through older pictures, I said wow, look at the size of these waves," he said. "Sometimes I cry," he added, explaining how he missed the huge waves. Laus, who twice broke records for surfing the world's longest waves, fears that sea level rise and droughts fueled by climate change, as well as erosion from farming and dams, are upsetting the balance that unleashes the force of nature he spent years learning to ride. "Nature is very alive, it feels every movement, every interference from humans," he said, adding that he hoped the global climate summit that will take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November "would bring new hope". The name pororoca means great roar in the Tupi Indigenous language - the thunderous clash between the ocean and the river that generates a tidal bore. As the moon approaches the earth, some rivers are pushed back by ocean water lifted by its gravitational pull. The wave grows bigger as a deep river becomes shallow. Research shows climate change has made parts of the Amazon hotter and disturbed rain patterns that keep the water volume in its rivers steady. Communities near the Mearim River have also noticed the sea reach further inland, creating sandbanks and forming new mangrove areas that block the ocean tide, said Denilson Bezerra, an oceanographer at the Federal University of Maranhao. "We have felt the impact in the occurrence of the pororoca," he said. "But we still lack studies to establish the cause-and-effect relationship." Laus has surfed pororocas all over the world, in Indonesia, China, and Alaska, and he plans to continue searching for new tidal bores around the Amazon, as well as Papua New Guinea and Canada. "There are many pororocas that no one has ever seen," he said, adding that he still dreams of surfing "all the pororocas in the world."
Reuters
12-05-2025
- Climate
- Reuters
As the Amazon's waves weaken, a surfer fights to protect them
ARARI, Brazil, May 12 (Reuters) - Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the power of mighty rivers combines with the pull of the moon's gravity to form waves that run for dozens of miles. Record-breaking Brazilian surfer Sergio Laus fears that climate change and environmental degradation mean their days may be numbered. One early morning in late April, with a supermoon still in the sky, he trekked dozens of miles through the mud up the Mearim River, at the eastern tip of the Amazon, to surf the country's biggest remaining 'pororoca' and highlight the risk. The two-meter-high muddy waves that formed as the river narrowed between the lush mangroves at the margins amazed him, as they always did. "A wave breaks and dissolves," he said, of ocean waves. "This one just keeps gaining intensity. It's an Amazonian tsunami." Yet the waves were about half the size of what he saw here years ago - and even smaller than the five-meter waves he says he used to ride in the Araguari River further west before erosion caused by agriculture and nearby dams dried up Brazil's mightiest pororocas. "Looking through older pictures, I said wow, look at the size of these waves," he said. "Sometimes I cry," he added, explaining how he missed the huge waves. Laus, who twice broke records for surfing the world's longest waves, fears that sea level rise and droughts fueled by climate change, as well as erosion from farming and dams, are upsetting the balance that unleashes the force of nature he spent years learning to ride. "Nature is very alive, it feels every movement, every interference from humans," he said, adding that he hoped the global climate summit that will take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November "would bring new hope". The name pororoca means great roar in the Tupi Indigenous language - the thunderous clash between the ocean and the river that generates a tidal bore. As the moon approaches the earth, some rivers are pushed back by ocean water lifted by its gravitational pull. The wave grows bigger as a deep river becomes shallow. Research shows climate change has made parts of the Amazon hotter and disturbed rain patterns that keep the water volume in its rivers steady. Communities near the Mearim River have also noticed the sea reach further inland, creating sandbanks and forming new mangrove areas that block the ocean tide, said Denilson Bezerra, an oceanographer at the Federal University of Maranhao. "We have felt the impact in the occurrence of the pororoca," he said. "But we still lack studies to establish the cause-and-effect relationship." Laus has surfed pororocas all over the world, in Indonesia, China, and Alaska, and he plans to continue searching for new tidal bores around the Amazon, as well as Papua New Guinea and Canada. "There are many pororocas that no one has ever seen," he said, adding that he still dreams of surfing "all the pororocas in the world."
