Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:00:12 +0000

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

Changes to bathing water status test will deny rivers protection, say critics

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 07:00:10 +0000

Campaigners say introduction of feasibility test in England and Wales over bathing status is ‘snub to communities’

Rivers are unlikely to be granted the protections of bathing water status under the government’s changes to the system, campaigners have said.

River activists have reacted with fury as details of the reforms were revealed on Wednesday.

A bloke at the dog park said the government was controlling the cyclones. He is accidentally sort of correct | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:38:37 +0000

If you don’t believe the scientists, will you believe the insurance companies?

In the middle of cyclone preparation I found a baby bird – one tiny, wild life amid the wind and rain | Jessie Cole

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:44:32 +0000

My homeplace has experienced four natural disasters in eight years. But I’d never seen the like of this bird before, vibrantly green and startlingly beautiful

We were midway through our cyclone preparation when my mother broke her leg. She stepped into her bedroom to retrieve something, tripped and fell, and that was that. My mother is 74 and hardy, so this sudden break took us by surprise. Once I got her home, leg in brace, we’d lost significant time, and my household was down to one functional human: me.

Northern Territory’s growing saltwater crocodile population gorging on nine times more prey than 50 years ago

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:36:59 +0000

Research shows apex predators are increasing in numbers and excreting important nutrients into Top End waterways

‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:01:00 +0000

Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped

Climate whiplash is already hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed.

Farmers in England furious as Defra pauses post-Brexit payment scheme

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:49:00 +0000

Applications to the sustainable farming initiative no longer accepted but no clarity on what will replace it and when

Farming and countryside groups in England are furious that the government has paused a key post-Brexit farming payments scheme with little information about what will replace it and when.

In a statement on Tuesday evening the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the sustainable farming incentive would no longer accept new applications.

Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:00:51 +0000

In addition to layoffs and hiring freezes, a ‘God squad’ can effectively veto ESA protections for endangered species

At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:00:50 +0000

RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ giving fresh momentum to longtime efforts to outlaw additives, which is now a bipartisan movement

At least a dozen US states – from traditionally conservative Oklahoma to liberal-leaning New York – are rushing to pass laws outlawing commonly used dyes and other chemical additives in foods, citing a need to protect public health.

USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:13:58 +0000

Millions of children could lose free school meals as food costs rise, warns School Nutrition Association president

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed two programs that provided more than $1bn for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and ranchers.

About $660m of those funds were contained in the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, which provided funds to schools and child care facilities but is now being eliminated.