Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘We’ve got to find answers’: Corby families affected by cancer searching for truth about toxic waste sites

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:04 +0000

Alison Gaffney believes her son’s rare leukaemia was caused by dumped toxic waste from the town’s steelworks

Alison Gaffney and Andy Hinde received the devastating news that their 17-month-old son, Fraser, had a rare type of leukaemia in 2018.

Two years of gruelling treatment followed, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, before a stem cell transplant. Fraser, then aged three, made a “miraculous recovery” from the surgery, before doctors declared the cancer in remission.

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:03 +0000

Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

In the next few years, spades could be in the ground for a city made of wood, in the middle of the largest new nature reserve created in England in decades, with four-bedroom homes on sale for £350,000.

Australia’s unconventional Cop31 deal puts Chris Bowen at the helm of the world’s most complex negotiations. It’s a huge opportunity | Thom Woodroofe and Dean Bialek

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:41:02 +0000

Australia may not be hosting Cop31, but the unprecedented Turkey partnership is a real chance to secure global influence and turbocharge a new green zeitgeist

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:50:06 +0000

Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

The world edged a small step closer to the end of the fossil fuel era on Saturday, but not by nearly enough to stave off the ravages of climate breakdown.

Countries meeting in Brazil for two weeks could manage only a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels, and they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries.

The five great forests that keep North America’s birds alive

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:35:04 +0000

Migratory birds that fill North American forests with spring songs depend on Central America’s Five Great Forests far more than most people realize. New research shows these tropical strongholds shelter enormous shares of species like Wood Thrushes, Cerulean Warblers, and Golden-winged Warblers—many of which are rapidly declining. Yet these forests are disappearing at an alarming pace due to illegal cattle ranching, placing both birds and local communities at risk.

Fury, confusion and gratitude as climate deal reached in Belé – as it happened

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:25:44 +0000

After a series of all-night meetings and fears the summit could collapse, an agreement has been gavelled through at Cop30

We have some texts, but we do not have the big one yet (the global mutirão decision).

‘Superfluous consumerism’: adult Advent calendar trend alarms green groups

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:00:36 +0000

Trend is adding to ‘waste crisis’ owing to individual packaging and potential for unwanted items, campaigners say

The trend for Advent calendars aimed at adults is “superfluous consumerism” that adds to excessive and wasteful consumption, according to environmental groups.

While once children excitedly opened a door each day to see what festive picture lay behind it, adults can now count down the days to Christmas with calendars containing everything from luxury beauty products to instant mashed potato.

Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:31 +0000

National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way

Saplings from the felled Sycamore Gap tree are to be planted across the UK, including at a pit disaster site, a town still healing from the Troubles and a place which became an international symbol of peace, protest and feminism.

Protect and restore: integrating marine management to secure the future of coastal ecosystems

admin — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 22 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00168-9

Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel

admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:50:31 +0000

UK energy secretary says UN climate talks must find way to keep proposals alive despite significant resistance

Supporters of a global phaseout of fossil fuels must find “creative” ways to keep the proposal alive, including making it voluntary rather than binding, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said in the closing stages of the UN climate talks.