Breaking Waves: Ocean News

More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:00:09 +0000

The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats

More than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this January.

“I never heard [of] such large numbers of turtles stranded at any beaches of Tamil Nadu at least in the last three decades,” Kuppusamy Sivakumar, an ecology professor at Pondicherry University said.

Storm brings hail to Harden in NSW – video

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:53:38 +0000

Storm brings hail to Harden in NSW – video

GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:00:04 +0000

Industry insiders say it will be ‘tricky’ to find suitable candidate who would agree to location and civil service pay

Britain’s state-owned energy company faces a “challenging” task to find a chief executive for its Aberdeen HQ when it begins recruiting this month, senior industry sources have said.

Great British Energy is poised to begin the hunt, but sources claim there are still no obvious frontrunners for the top job almost six months after the £8.3bn publicly owned clean energy company was formed.

Persimmons and pears: the farmers’ market program getting kids excited to try new foods

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Elementary schoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area are embarking on tasting journeys of fruits and vegetables

Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 13:08:03 +0000

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers

More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of air pollution, the Guardian can reveal.

Exposure to toxic air was attributed to 515 men and 590 women in the UK in 2022 getting adenocarcinoma – now the most dominant of the four main subtypes of lung cancer – an analysis by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency found.

Air traffic control to Sir Keir: turbulence ahead | Stewart Lee

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 10:00:47 +0000

There’s no point trying to make plans around the whims of Trump. The PM instead needs to turn to Europe

Promoting green growth does not make you an ‘eco-nutter’. It’s the only way forward

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:00:46 +0000

Heading off the environmental crisis and growing the economy are not at odds. They are two sides of a coin – as our politicians should realise

Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do? | Catherine Bennett

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 07:00:44 +0000

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric against green campaigners appears to have taken a playground turn

Keir Starmer urged to resist pressure to permit Rosebank North Sea oilfield

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 07:00:43 +0000

Leading climate group warns of damage to green agenda if giant project goes ahead

Keir Starmer will do huge damage to the global fight against climate change if he gives in to political pressure and allows the development of a giant new oilfield in the North Sea, according to an analysis by the country’s leading environmental institute.

Towns cut off by Queensland floods warned against panic-buying as premier vows ‘resilient’ rebuild

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:44:46 +0000

David Crisafulli says infrastructure to be replaced after floods needs ‘greater ability’ to withstand natural disasters