Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Tories would maximise North Sea oil and gas extraction, Badenoch to say

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:38:42 +0000

Conservative leader says it is ‘absurd’ to shift away from fossil fuels and leave ‘vital resources untapped’

The Conservative party will aim to “maximise extraction” of oil and gas in the North Sea if it wins power, Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce.

Badenoch will use a speech in Aberdeen in the coming days to set out her plans to extract as much oil and gas as possible instead of shifting away from fossil fuels, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Roughly $400,000 in the $1m budget was for public awareness – but those funds were recently ‘zeroed out’

When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would be important to share. High cancer rates amid the state’s inability to stem the tide of pollutants flowing into rivers and lakes was a growing public concern.

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:00:01 +0000

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission

Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.

UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall

admin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:00:52 +0000

Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh have tripled since last year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet

The UK’s largest lake, Lough Neagh, is on course to record its worst year of potentially toxic algal blooms to date, as rescue plans remain deadlocked.

Murray Watt backs ‘no-go’ zones where development is banned – but not for Tasmania’s Robbins Island

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:00:36 +0000

Environment minister says scientific evidence did not convince government that remote island qualified

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‘It’s like Sleeping Beauty; we have to wake them’: winemakers urged to help save earthworms

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:00:33 +0000

Transforming bare and compacted soil in vineyards can boost numbers of important invertebrate, say advocates

Vineyards are generally the most inhospitable of landscapes for the humble earthworm; the soil beneath vines is usually kept bare and compacted by machinery.

But scientists and winemakers have been exploring ways to turn vineyards into havens for worms.

Newly elected Scottish Green leaders to campaign on universal income and free bus travel

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:55:57 +0000

Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay, elected after 12.7% turnout, also vow to campaign on higher taxation of rich

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The new leaders of the Scottish Greens, Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay, have promised to campaign for a universal income, free bus travel and higher taxation on the rich after winning a muted election contest.

Weather tracker: Typhoon Kajiki lashes south-east Asia with fatalities in Vietnam

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:50:26 +0000

Duration of torrential rains from Typhoon Kajiki lead to elevated landslide risk across Laos and Thailand

Typhoon Kajiki steadily intensified over the South China Sea last weekend into a category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of 115mph. It made landfall near the coastal city of Vinh in Vietnam on Monday afternoon, having slightly weakened but still packing a punch with winds of up to 100mph and torrential rainfall.

Week in wildlife: harvest mice, a basking hippo and a hungry egret

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:00:07 +0000

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

Labor greenlights contentious Robbins Island windfarm despite fears for endangered orange-bellied parrot

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 05:24:59 +0000

Environment advocates have called for important migratory shorebird habitat off Tasmania to be declared ‘no-go site’

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