Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +0000

In 2023, court had ruled in favor of 16 plaintiffs that officials violated their constitutional right by promoting fossil fuels

The young Montanans who scored a landmark triumph in the lawsuit Held v Montana are calling on the state’s highest court to enforce that victory.

A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +0000

A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan

When a whale dies, its body descends to the bottom of the deep sea in a transformative phenomenon called a whale fall. A whale’s death jump-starts an explosion of life, enough to feed and sustain a deep-ocean ecosystem for decades.

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:00:43 +0000

Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

Scientists have issued an urgent warning that some of the synthetic chemicals that help underpin the current food system are driving increased rates of cancer, neurodevelopmental conditions and infertility, while degrading the foundations of global agriculture.

Five key opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of area-based marine conservation

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 10 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00172-z

Five key opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of area-based marine conservation

‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:00:40 +0000

Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries

From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western Himalayas. Once a vast white artery feeding rivers, fields and forests, it is now retreating steadily, leaving bare rock, crevassed ice and newly exposed alpine meadows.

It’s two years since we were told ‘the age of fossil fuels will end’. When will Australia get prepared for what’s coming? | Clear Air

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:26:58 +0000

The decline of the coal export industry could come even faster than expected, and we need to do more to manage the economic risks

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‘We call him ... unbearable’: California homeowner laments uninvited beast

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:20:23 +0000

The 550lb bear living under Ken Johnson’s home for two weeks is unmoved by ‘lure’, with caramel and cherry smells

A hefty 550lb black bear has laid claim to the crawl space under an Altadena home, marking the latest in a series of bear incursions into the Los Angeles community.

On 25 November, homeowner Ken Johnson noticed the bear leaving the crawl space and later contacted California’s department of fish and wildlife for assistance removing it from below his home. Despite sweet-scented lures and ammonia-towels, the bear has remained in place for more than two weeks.

The Guardian view on waste: the festive season is a good time to think about rubbish | Editorial

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:49:27 +0000

Weak regulation is to blame for disastrous failures in relation to pollution. But there are solutions if people get behind them

Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:03:52 +0000

Green light intended to limit amount consumers pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high generation

Three major UK electricity “superhighways” could move ahead sooner than expected to help limit the amount that households pay for windfarms to turn off during periods of high power generation.

Current grid bottlenecks mean there is not enough capacity to transport the abundance of electricity generated in periods of strong winds to areas where energy demand is highest.

US judge strikes down Trump order blocking wind energy projects

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:16:57 +0000

Federal judge declared January executive order unlawful, ruling in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general

A federal judge on Monday struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of windfarms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated US law.