Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Should Australia go nuclear? Why Peter Dutton's plan could be an atomic failure – video

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:46:20 +0000

Year in, year out, there's a good chance someone in politics has suggested nuclear power as an answer to Australia's energy problems. Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains why. Modern-day nuclear energy is climate friendly compared with coal and gas. But going nuclear isn't practical for Australia – and it's an idea that's more than likely coming directly from the Coalition's 'delaying action on climate change' handbook

More than 90% of marine animals caught in NSW shark nets over summer were non-target species

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:00:21 +0000

Exclusive: New documents reveal government division over controversial program as data reveals death toll

‘Get rid of your green waste bin and let leaves rot into the soil,’ says garden expert

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:23:54 +0000

RHS Wisley garden manager says composting at home saves money and creates habitat for hedgehogs and invertebrates

Get rid of your green waste bin if you want to make your soil more healthy and save money, a Royal Horticultural Society expert has said.

Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:27:47 +0000

Motion sets out worldwide target in alignment with Paris agreement to limit global heating to 1.5C

Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in an attempt to protect human health and the environment.

‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rain

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:15:08 +0000

Some crops completely wiped out and dramatic falls in yields being predicted in county which reflects crisis in rest of UK

With his farm almost entirely surrounded by the banks of the River Severn in north Shropshire, Ed Tate is used to flooding on his land – but this year, the sheer level of rainfall is the worst he has ever seen.

He points to a field where about 20% of wheat crops have failed as they have been covered with rainwater that has pooled in muddy puddles, in areas that would usually be a sea of green by now.

First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:30:27 +0000

Murrawah Johnson recognised for role in landmark legal case to block coalmine backed by Clive Palmer

Activist wins Goldman prize for effort to clean up California trucking and railway sectors

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:30:26 +0000

Andrea Vidaurre helped persuade regulators to adopt rules that will improve air quality for millions in one of US’s smoggiest areas

A grassroots organizer from one of the US’s smoggiest communities has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful campaign to clean up California’s trucking and railway sectors.

Jeepney strike under way in Philippines as deadline to modernise nears

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:28:12 +0000

Government tells operators they must join cooperatives by Tuesday and gradually replace their vehicles with greener options

A three-day strike by drivers of jeepneys in the Philippines began on Monday as transport groups warned that thousands could be pushed off the roads by government modernisation plans.

‘My country would disappear’: climate crisis could force Torres Strait Islanders from homes within 30 years

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:52:36 +0000

Large parts of islands could be uninhabitable by 2050, federal court told in first climate class action taken by Australian First Nations people

‘A special bond between music and art’: Bath piano shop turns old parts into palette

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:00:25 +0000

From an eagle to Elton John, the Played and Remade project enables artists to ‘make something magical’ from free materials

The task of loading once-loved but now unwanted pianos into a van and carting them off to the recycling centre is a disheartening and melancholy one. So a music shop in Bath that scraps as many as 300 redundant and unfixable pianos a year has launched a project to repurpose the thousands of parts that make up each instrument into pieces of art.