Breaking Waves: Ocean News

How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break?

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:30:21 +0000

US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperatures

Four Chinese carmakers enter Australian top 10 for first time, while Tesla sales slump

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:32:23 +0000

BYD overtakes Mitsubishi after nearly quadrupling sales in past year, according to official figures, as GWM, MG and Chery also surge

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Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:56:33 +0000

Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’

Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste into green jet fuel in Europe.

Abandoned Queensland coal borehole found to be emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of greenhouse gas

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:36:26 +0000

The hole – about 100 metres deep – was not visible from the surface – and there could be thousands more like it

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This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope | Lucy Jones

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:16 +0000

A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs

What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK. As human-caused climate breakdown intensifies, the outdoor areas we spend time in are changing – and so, too, are our relationships with the land and the ecosystems we live in.

Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:00:14 +0000

Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds

The financing of transition mineral mining is driving widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses, according to a report.

Banks and investors have ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into companies mining for minerals for the manufacture of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, energy grids and electric vehicles in the past decade, according to the research.

Labor is poised to make a big call on our nation’s carbon emissions target. But who is Albanese going to listen to? | Clear Air

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:02:43 +0000

Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis

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Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:50:36 +0000

More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

World’s biggest iceberg breaks up after 40 years: ‘Most don’t make it this far’

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:37:01 +0000

‘Megaberg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer waters and could disappear within weeks

Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.

Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time.

English water firms spend £16.6m on legal fees over environmental breaches

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:56:44 +0000

MPs on Commons committee describe figures as a waste and say money should have been used to fix infrastructure

English water companies have spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches such as illegal sewage spills.

Correspondence from the companies to the Commons environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) committee published on Tuesday reveals that millions of pounds of billpayers’ money has been spent over the past five years on expensive external lawyers enlisted to reduce liabilities for regulatory breaches.