Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Why Trump administration’s plan to attempt to destroy Pfas is ‘nonsenscial’

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:50 +0000

The EPA said it was cutting Biden-era regulations on Pfas in drinking water, but advocates say the move will harm public health and benefit industry

A new Trump administration plan to ditch Pfas drinking water regulations and instead attempt to destroy “forever chemicals” on a wide scale tears a page from the fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture playbook, and will benefit the industry while harming public health.

Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:56:35 +0000

Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015

There has been a huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of “battery cows” in the UK as farmers struggle with increasing costs and face selling milk at a loss.

Seven deaths in France linked to record-high temperatures

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:19:33 +0000

Five of the deaths were by drowning while two people died competing in sporting events

Seven people have died in France in an extreme early-summer heat event that is affecting a swathe of western Europe, as France and the UK set record highs for May and temperatures were forecast to rise further on Tuesday.

“What I can say today is that there have been seven deaths linked directly or indirectly to the heat,” a French government spokesperson, Maud Bregeon, told TF1 television, adding that five of the deaths were by drowning.

Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:51 +0000

Trump campaign accelerating climate crisis as officials move migrants to detention jails and deport them from US

US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.

Vape shops but no jobs: one young man’s search for work in Grimsby

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:46:47 +0000

The Lincolnshire seaside town is often written off by YouTubers as a place defined by deprivation and decline. But for many young people it's a place they love and are proud to call home, even though high unemployment limits their opportunities. The Guardian follows 19-year old Cohen, who is desperate to find a permanent job while running a mascot hire company and chasing his dream of becoming a professional wrestler

Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:00:48 +0000

Animal and Plant Health Agency forced to release reports showing scale and cause of deaths on some fish farms

Millions of fish deaths caused by accidental poisoning and suffocation on Scottish salmon farms have been revealed after the inspection agency was forced to share its reports.

The UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) had refused to release inspection reports, claiming it would cause “significant detriment” to companies, including to their reputations.

Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:00:46 +0000

People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy

‘I’m throwing everything at it’: one young man’s search for a job in Britain’s ‘worklessness capital’

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:00:46 +0000

High unemployment and a lack of support mean life can be tough in Grimsby, but 19-year-old Cohen is determined to make the best of life in this coastal town

It’s mid-afternoon in the Lincolnshire seaside town of Cleethorpes and Cohen is sitting in the back seat of a car putting on an Easter bunny outfit. A group of teenagers nearby stare in amusement. Cohen isn’t fazed. He is hoping we can take some new photographs that he can use to advertise his mascot business for the upcoming holidays.

Indians protest over ‘forever chemicals’ after relocation of scandal-hit Italian factory

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:45 +0000

Lack of Pfas regulations raised in parliament after Guardian revealed former Miteni plant bought by Indian company

Protests over the production of cancer-linked Pfas chemicals have spread across India, after an investigation revealed that an Italian factory shut down due to an environmental scandal was bought by an Indian company and partly rebuilt.

BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

admin — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:48:43 +0000

Outrage as leaked documents reveal mining giant’s backsliding on commitments to slash emissions