Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Week in wildlife in pictures: a hunting osprey, a golf-loving snake and a hedgehog in a war zone

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:00:09 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Zigzag patterns on walls could help cool overheated buildings, study finds

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:00:06 +0000

An architectural zigzag design can limit how much heat is absorbed by buildings – and emitted back to space

Incorporating zigzag patterns into building walls could help cool overheated buildings, research has found.

Buildings are now responsible for approximately 40% of global energy consumption, contributing more than a third of global carbon dioxide emissions.

Click, crackle and pop: healthy soil makes more noise, scientists find

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:00:03 +0000

Researchers at Australia’s Flinders University hope the acoustic method will make it easier to find and fix soil degradation

Melbourne mayor floats plan to slash household power bills by bulk buying renewable energy

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 01:49:51 +0000

‘MPower’ would be Australia’s largest scheme of its kind – with neighbouring councils invited to join in

Last month marked the world’s hottest July on record, US scientists say

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:26:53 +0000

This year could beat 2023 for the hottest year on record as 15-month heat streak extends, according to Noaa

The world just had its hottest July ever recorded, elongating a string of monthly temperature highs that now stretch back for 15 consecutive months, US government scientists have announced.

As human activities expand in Antarctica, scientists identify crucial conservation sites

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:06:13 +0000

Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, researchers say.

Nearly 25% of European landscape could be rewilded, researchers say

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:42:18 +0000

Europe's abandoned farmlands could find new life through rewilding, a movement to restore ravaged landscapes to their wilderness before human intervention. A quarter of the European continent, 117 million hectares, is primed with rewilding opportunities, researchers report.

Government drops appeal over climate activist who held sign outside UK court

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:07:30 +0000

Judge had thrown out case against Trudi Warner, whose sign told jurors they had a right to acquit ‘according to conscience’

The government has dropped an appeal against a judge’s decision to throw out a contempt case against a woman who stood outside a climate activist trial holding a placard about jury rights.

Revealed: Shell oil non-profit donated to anti-climate groups behind Project 2025

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:00:13 +0000

Foundation says it ‘does not endorse any organizations’ while funneling hundreds of thousands to rightwing causes

A US foundation associated with the oil company Shell has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to religious right and conservative organizations, many of which deny that climate change is a crisis, tax records reveal.

Anti-whaling activist to stay in Greenland jail while extradition decided

admin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:19:52 +0000

Paul Watson fighting efforts byJapan to have him stand trial there for 2010 confrontation with whalers

A Greenland court has ordered the anti-whaling activist Paul Watson to remain in custody until 5 September pending a decision on his possible extradition to Japan.

Watson, an American-Canadian who has been detained since his arrest in Nuuk in July, had appealed against the court’s decision, the statement on Thursday added.