Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Florida sees thriving future if climate resilience managed, research finds

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 11:00:17 +0000

Florida wildlife corridor will spearhead climate resilience if allowed to evolve and essential preparatory work done, study says

Climate predictions in Florida, for the most part, make pretty grim reading. Rising oceans threaten to submerge most of the state by the end of the century, and soaring temperatures could make it too hot to live here anyway.

Britain’s climate action plan unlawful, high court rules

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:44:31 +0000

Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan

The UK government’s climate action plan is unlawful, the high court has ruled, as there is not enough evidence that there are sufficient policies in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating, says study

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:35:26 +0000

Researchers find many countries unprepared for influx of new species and will be vulnerable to bites

Climate breakdown is likely to lead to the large-scale migration of venomous snake species into new regions and unprepared countries, according to a study.

The researchers forecast that Nepal, Niger, Namibia, China, and Myanmar will gain the most venomous snake species from neighbouring countries under a heating climate.

Week in wildlife – in pictures: a giant hamster, a mustachioed deer and a zebra on the run

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 07:00:31 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Northumbrian Water told to publish raw sewage discharge data it tried to hide

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 06:00:29 +0000

Appeal tribunal orders firm to share details on hundreds of thousands of tonnes of outflows into North Sea

A water company that tried to keep secret details of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of raw sewage discharges into the sea has been ordered by an appeal tribunal to release the data in the public interest.

Australia’s best new sustainable homes of 2024 – in pictures

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:22 +0000

A pocket-sized city terrace extension and a multigenerational riverside property inspired by a country shed are among the innovative dwellings shortlisted in the sustainability category of the Houses awards, Australia’s premier residential design prize.

Violent attacks against environmental journalists on the rise, report finds

admin — Thu, 02 May 2024 22:01:19 +0000

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

More than 70% of environmental journalists have been attacked for their work since 2009, according to a Unesco report, which warns of rising threats against those covering the climate crisis.

At least 749 environmental journalists have faced violence and intimidation in the last 15 years, the UN body found. It said that 44 reporters were murdered between 2009 and 2023 but that resulted in just five convictions.

New eco-friendly lubricant additives protect turbine equipment, waterways

admin — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:48:11 +0000

Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding environment.

Pier pressure: more than 1,000 sea lions assemble at San Francisco dockside

admin — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:57:44 +0000

Tourists delighted as pinnipeds congregate at city’s Pier 39, apparently attracted by feast of anchovies

More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Francisco’s Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years.

Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the city’s pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day.

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed

admin — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:31:15 +0000

The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many studies have shown the loss of biodiversity when rainforests are converted to oil palm plantations, researchers have now shown the far-reaching and wide-ranging disturbances to the watersheds in which such plantations occur.