Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Keir Starmer unveils plan for large nuclear expansion across England and Wales

admin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:01:01 +0000

Prime minister vows to ‘push past nimbyism’ and calls on tech firms to help build small modular reactors to power AI datacentres

Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power across England and Wales, pledging to use Labour’s large majority to make new sites across the country available for new power stations.

The announcement follows the prime minister’s call for tech companies to work alongside the government to build small modular reactors (SMRs) to power energy intensive AI datacentres across Britain.

Urgent action needed to ensure UK food security, report warns

admin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:01:01 +0000

The UK’s food supply has been threatened by recent events, such as the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic

Urgent action is needed to secure the UK’s food supply in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather, the imposition of tariffs and global insecurity, a report has warned.

On the edge: Massachusetts home at peril of tumbling into bay from erosion

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:49:06 +0000

Multimillion-dollar home perched at edge of Cape Cod Bay in Wellfleet affected by erosion accelerated by climate crisis

The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when.

US scientists feeling ‘stress and fear’ as sweeping Trump orders hit funding

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:00:22 +0000

Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders

Scientists around the US have described experiencing distress, disruption to their work and interruption of payments in the chaos following Donald Trump’s executive orders affecting federal grant money.

Among the funds caught in limbo in recent days were millions of dollars of congressionally appropriated research awards and grants across the vast networks of publicly funded scientific departments at universities, businesses and non-profits across the country.

Australian scientists produce kangaroo embryos using IVF for first time

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:24 +0000

Team has produced more than 20 embryos using method used in humans, though there are no plans for live joeys

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Scientists have produced kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation for the first time, in a development they say could help conservation of endangered animals.

Norwegian firm lobbying to open Rosebank oilfield halves green investments

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:56:49 +0000

State-owned Equinor becomes latest fossil fuel firm to backtrack on clean energy pledges with move to halve budget to $5bn

The Norwegian oil company fighting to open a giant new oilfield off Shetland has cut billions of pounds from its green spending plans in favour of producing more fossil fuels.

Equinor set out plans on Wednesday to halve its investments in low-carbon energy while producing more oil and gas, becoming the latest in a line of fossil fuel firms to backtrack on its green promises.

Badger admiring art wins wildlife photographer of the year public vote

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:28:00 +0000

Ian Wood wins Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award with photo taken in St Leonards-on-Sea

A badger captured glancing up at a graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum’s people’s choice award for wildlife photographer of the year.

The image was taken by a British photographer, Ian Wood, on a quiet road in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

East Anglian farms breach environment regulations 700 times in seven years

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:00:31 +0000

Freedom of information data reveals violations on intensive poultry and pig farms

Industrial-scale livestock farms across East Anglia have breached environmental regulations more than 700 times in the past seven years, freedom of information (FoI) data has revealed.

The farms across Norfolk and Suffolk are among the largest in the country. Pig and poultry farming is concentrated in the region and 28% of England’s pig population was farmed in the area in 2023.

It seems the end of everything is upon us. Is no one coming to our rescue. How about … the molluscs?! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:33:24 +0000

Did you know molluscs protect the citizens of Poland from water pollution? It’s true!

Major data gaps and recommendations in monitoring regulations of activities in EU marine protected areas

admin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00104-x

Major data gaps and recommendations in monitoring regulations of activities in EU marine protected areas