Breaking Waves: Ocean News

What do the Los Angeles fires tell us about the coming water wars? | Judith Levine

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:30:46 +0000

Will water soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good?

Italian police accused of making female activists remove underwear and do squats

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:41:06 +0000

Climate activists say they were subjected to degrading treatment during questioning in Brescia on Monday

Italy’s interior minister has been urged to open an investigation into police in the northern city of Brescia amid allegations that seven female climate activists were made to take off their underwear and perform squats during questioning.

The activists were among 22 people brought to Brescia’s main police station on Monday morning after officers interrupted a protest held outside the Italian aerospace and defence firm Leonardo’s factory.

California pulls diesel phase-out request to EPA ahead of Trump administration

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:29:29 +0000

Air Resources Board withdraws request for approval of rules to limit pollution from diesel trains and big rigs

California’s efforts to limit pollution from diesel-powered trains and big rigs were stalled in anticipation of pushback from the incoming Trump administration.

‘Running to danger and saving lives’: 1,100 incarcerated firefighters are on the LA frontlines

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:00:42 +0000

The jobs are highly coveted, offering training and reduced sentences, but face criticism over low wages

As firefighters are battling multiple huge blazes tearing through Los Angeles, California’s prisons have deployed more than 1,000 incarcerated people to battle on the frontlines.

Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:00:42 +0000

Global heating means atmosphere can drive both extreme droughts and floods with rapid switches

Climate “whiplash” between extremely wet and dry conditions, which spurred catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, is increasing exponentially around the world because of global heating, analysis has found.

Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:57:16 +0000

Luke Evans, whose work has been called ‘breathtakingly new’, says he has lost experimental data and all equipment

A scientist in Liverpool has lost more than a decade of work after the prefabricated building that served as his research lab was destroyed in a suspected arson attack.

‘I applaud the EPA’: agency launches formal review of five toxic chemicals

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:09 +0000

Review could lead to bans on plastic chemicals including vinyl chloride, compound at center of 2023 Ohio train wreck

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a formal review of five highly toxic plastic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, the notorious compound at the center of the East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck fire. The move could lead to strong limits or bans on the substances.

3M knew firefighting foams containing PFAS were toxic, documents show

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:00:07 +0000

Exclusive: Newly uncovered documents reveal chemicals giant was aware ‘environmentally neutral’ products did not biodegrade

The multibillion-dollar chemicals company 3M told customers its firefighting foams were harmless and biodegradable when it knew they contained toxic substances so persistent they are now known as “forever chemicals” and banned in many countries including the UK, newly uncovered documents show.

Scouts embrace rewilding to connect UK teenagers with nature

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:57:34 +0000

Adventure centre projects will promote interest in natural world, boosting young people’s wellbeing

A £150,000 initiative to tackle the “teenage dip” in nature connectedness will involve the Scout Association introducing rewilding to its adventure centres across the UK.

The funding, announced on Wednesday by the environmental charity Rewilding Britain, will support 11 projects aimed at putting young people at the heart of nature restoration. Several focus explicitly on reversing the sharp decline in young people’s engagement with the natural world during adolescence.

Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’ | Adrienne Buller

admin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:07:19 +0000

The scope of the Cop26 net zero banking alliance may have been limited, but the exodus of six US banks signifies a seismic political shift