Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Climate crisis threatens medical blood supply in US amid extreme weather

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:41:29 +0000

Turnout at blood drives affected as summers get hotter and extreme weather causes cancellations, Red Cross warns

The climate crisis is threatening the medical blood supply in the US, with this summer’s record heat contributing to an emergency blood shortage, the American Red Cross has warned.

Climate crisis fuelled storm that sank yacht in Sicily, say experts

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:35 +0000

Record sea temperatures in the Mediterranean contributed to waterspout that hit Bayesian

Record temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea this summer contributed to the freak storm that sank a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, with similar extreme events expected to increase in frequency and intensity as the climate crisis tightens its grip, Italian scientists have said.

Environment Agency considering legal action after sewage spill at Devon beach

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:18 +0000

South West Water could face prosecution after sewer burst at nearby treatment plant

The Environment Agency is considering legal action against South West Water after the company spilled sewage into the sea at a Devon beach.

Swimmers were told to stay out of the sea at Exmouth beach after a sewer burst on private land on Thursday next to Maer Lane wastewater treatment works.

Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:30:45 +0000

Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza

Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions, new research suggests, which legal experts warn could make them complicit in serious crimes against the Palestinian people.

Three women in a boat: how girl (and pedal) power helped us finish a 750-mile race to Alaska

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:00:11 +0000

A trio of mothers in their mid-40s were among more than 100 intrepid sailors in a motley armada sailing the unpredictable and spectacular Inside Passage in the Pacific Northwest

The rangers turning the DRC’s ‘triangle of death’ back into a thriving wildlife reserve

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:00:16 +0000

Conflict nearly wiped out its large animals, but local determination is bringing Upemba park back from the brink

Photographs by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Ranger Sylvain Musimi had just risen from his morning coffee around the campfire when the rebels opened fire. It was a chilly early morning in mid-January, during rainy season in Upemba national park. Sixteen suspected members of the Bakata Katanga militia, faces daubed in white war paint, surprised the party of four rangers only 5.5 miles (9km) from Upemba’s base camp.

Tuesday briefing: Why the oceans are on the frontline of the climate crisis

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:55:15 +0000

In today’s newsletter: Our Seascapes editor on the dangers our seas and oceans face – and what we can do to help

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Rare moth found in Cambridgeshire orchard threatened by busway plan

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:00:12 +0000

Appearance of dark crimson underwing causes excitement on land that would be bisected by road scheme

Beneath oak canopies, in an orchard full of hundred-year-old apple trees, excited exclamations rose from a group of moth enthusiasts last week.

The Cambridgeshire Moth Group had just trapped a dark crimson underwing, a species so rare that none of them had ever seen it before. Indeed, the colourful invertebrate is only usually ever found in the New Forest and is considered nationally scarce.

Sewage-spilling English water firms could be denied ‘top marks’ in rankings

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:00:12 +0000

Exclusive: Regulator plans tighter rules to stop polluters from using four-star ratings to justify high CEO pay

Sewage-spilling water companies will no longer be able to justify high chief executive pay by getting “top marks” in the Environment Agency’s rankings, under plans to tighten rules, the Guardian understands.

The Coalition has turned its renewable energy denial into a nuclear roadmap to nowhere. It’s exhausting | Adam Morton

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:09:52 +0000

The opposition has still produced nothing to back up its widely disputed claim that Australia could have an operational nuclear industry before the 2040s