Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:30:17 +0000

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Amazonia suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has flown into the Amazon amid growing alarm over the droughts and wildfires sweeping the rainforest region and others parts of Brazil.

Speaking during a visit to a riverside community near the city of Tefé, the Brazilian president said Amazonia was suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years. He said he had come to discover “what is going on with these mighty rivers” that in some places now resemble deserts.

A comic guide to what changed (and what didn’t) for US school lunches

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:34:58 +0000

This year, the USDA put some limits on added sugars for the first time. But changes face robust resistance

Italy’s Marmolada glacier could disappear by 2040, experts say

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:22:15 +0000

Rising temperatures causing largest glacier in Dolomites to lose 7-10cm of depth a day, according to scientists

The Marmolada glacier, the largest and most symbolic of the Dolomites, could melt completely by 2040 owing to rising average temperatures, experts have said.

US cave system’s bats and insects face existential threat: discarded Cheetos

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:53:48 +0000

Full bag of snack left in cave occasioned National Park Service to educate public about delicate ecosystems

A full bag of Cheetos, discarded by a subterranean visitor to the Big Room in Carlsbad Caverns national park in New Mexico, has led the US National Park Service to issue a warning that discarded food could have a “huge impact” on the cave’s delicate and at-risk ecosystem.

Marsupial of the year heats up as koala and glider take on animal that mates itself to death

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:00:46 +0000

The Project hopes competition will raise big money for underfunded organisations working to protect beloved species

G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:11:13 +0000

Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions

We examined anti-protest laws across the west. Britain stood out, and not in a good way | Linda Lakhdhir

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:00:41 +0000

Under the Tories, non-violent climate protesters were jailed for up to five years – and there is little sign that Labour will change tack

Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:00:19 +0000

European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters

A box marked “special delivery” arrived about midday at Spurn Discovery Centre, on a remote East Yorkshire peninsula in the Humber estuary.

It is unlikely the postal worker had any idea it contained 300,000 living oyster larvae – tiny pinprick-sized organisms destined to become part of a new oyster reef just off the English coast.

How China and a tariffs row cast a shadow over booming US solar power

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:00:21 +0000

The source of new renewable energy is also a battleground over China’s cheap exports of panels that has split US firms

‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running

admin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:01:11 +0000

Last year Antartica’s sea ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less than that

Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over.