Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:00:39 +0000

After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of Marseille

Few people know the sea better than Guillaume Picard. He grew up on a boat moored in the port of Hyères in southern France after his parents left 1960s Paris. His first job was on a sailing boat. Then he spent 30 years in the merchant navy before becoming a commercial captain, ferrying tourists and containers across the Mediterranean for more than two decades.

Drugs, hormones and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the world

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:39 +0000

Mexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment

The stink of excrement was the first thing the residents of Sitilpech noticed when the farm opened in 2017. It hung over the colourful one-storey homes and kitchen gardens in the Maya town in Yucatán, and has never left. Next, the trees stopped bearing fruit, their leaves instead covered with black spots. Then, the water from the vast, porous aquifer emerged from the well with a horrible, overwhelming stench.

Largest great white shark ever caught in Queensland control program was pregnant with four pups

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:54:16 +0000

Female almost the length of a shipping container was found dead on a drumline in August, primary industries department has revealed

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The largest great white shark ever caught in Queensland’s shark control program died while pregnant with four pups, the primary industries department has revealed.

Fire ant rafts could float down Queensland river after recent heavy rains, expert warns

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:04:18 +0000

Growing infestations along the Logan river pose ‘very high risk’ of spreading downstream, Invasive Species Council says

Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot | Mo Ibrahim

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:34 +0000

The stakes are high for donors at next month’s IDA summit in Seoul, but not investing in development means more instability globally

Multilateralism is under attack. A toxic brew of multiplying conflicts, worsening climate impact, new pandemics and spiralling debt has brought the system to its knees, appearing almost incapable of properly addressing these converging crises. Adding the unknowns of a Trump administration into the mix will do little to allay concerns.

Monday briefing: Where Cop29 failed – and the limited reasons for hope

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:54:56 +0000

In today’s newsletter: The view from Azerbaijan is of disappointingly low direct finance guarantees to the developing world, although it is ‘less bad than nothing’

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Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than Scotland’s biggest city – report

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:00:31 +0000

World’s largest cruise line named Europe’s most climate-polluting, despite investing millions in cleaner technologies

The world’s largest cruise line company is responsible for producing more carbon dioxide in Europe than the city of Glasgow, a report has found.

As Cop29 wraps up and the climate crisis gathers pace, Australia’s dash for gas is confounding | Bill Hare

admin — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:27:19 +0000

Nearly all observers believe Chris Bowen is strongly committed to action. Most agree that can’t be said for his party

Cop29 in Baku has concluded but its outcome is disappointing – in many dimensions. Its decisions on finance – agreeing that the developed world would provide US$300bn a year by 2035 – come nowhere close to what’s needed. Ultimately, it may even be poisonous because of its lack of ambition and muddled scope – it does not even cover loss and damage.

Australia urged to do more on climate crisis as activists rue trillion-dollar Cop29 funding gap

admin — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:07:59 +0000

Wealthy nations agree to take the lead in helping developing countries shift to a low-carbon economy

The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial

admin — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:42:52 +0000

A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice