Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Massachusetts man buys $395,000 house despite warnings it will ‘fall into ocean’

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:55:57 +0000

David Moot nabs ‘dream’ Cape Cod home next to eroding cliff in imminent danger of crumbling due to climate crisis

A man who says life’s too short to resist buying a home that might fall off a cliff in a few years has taken ownership of a house with a beautiful view that’s just 25ft (7.6 metres) from a sandy, crumbling cliff.

David Moot paid $395,000 for the house on Cape Cod on the Massachusetts coast and said he intends to enjoy it while it lasts.

2024 Wainwright prizes are ‘heartwearming’ tribute to a new generation of nature writers

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:45:02 +0000

Top nature writing honour goes to Late Light by Michael Malay, which explores modern Britain through the ‘unloved’ lives of eels, moths, crickets and mussels

A book that explores modern Britain by examining four “unloved” animals – eels, moths, crickets and mussels – has won this year’s Wainwright prize for nature writing.

Fracking explained: the controversial extraction process that Harris and Trump sparred over

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:34:48 +0000

Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, record amounts of oil and gas have been produced in the US in the past six years

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clashed over fracking during Tuesday’s presidential debate. Here’s an introduction to the gas and oil extraction process that has transformed the US fossil fuel industry.

Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:24:54 +0000

Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer

Save the Children has pulled out of an event at the Science Museum in London after coming under pressure from its supporters over the institution’s sponsors.

Climate experts lament Harris’s vow to keep fracking in debate with ‘walking oil spill’ Trump

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:25:05 +0000

Harris has a progressive record on climate but indicated a shift, probably to assuage voters in swing states

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Kamala Harris stridently backed new fracking and expanded US gas production in comments that raised eyebrows among some environmentalists as, yet again, the unfolding climate crisis was largely overlooked during a set piece presidential debate.

Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:34:17 +0000

Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of home

The coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world’s attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament – stuck on his roof by flash floods.

Ekkapol Chantawong said he was drawing on his 2018 experience with the Wild Boars team to get through the situation at his home in the northern Thai district of Mae Sai.

‘Chronic threat’ of PFAS firefighting foams raised in 2003 secret UK report

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:00:06 +0000

Exclusive: Environment Agency warned about ‘forever chemicals' 20 years before it started to regulate them

The Environment Agency was warned about the “chronic threat” that firefighting foams containing PFAS “forever chemicals” pose to the environment in 2003, 20 years before it started the process of regulating the chemicals, it can be revealed.

‘Miracle’ penguin found two weeks after escaping captivity in Japan

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:31:47 +0000

Pen-chan defies expectations to be reunited with keeper safe and sound after swimming 30 miles in open sea

A fugitive penguin in Japan has been found safe and sound two weeks after escaping into the sea and paddling for miles in what her keeper called a miracle.

Pen-chan, a female Cape penguin born and raised in captivity, who had never swum in the open sea before or fended for herself, absconded from an event in the central Aichi region on 25 August.

Resisting fascism includes respecting our environment and fellow species | Terry Tempest Williams

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:00:09 +0000

I do not think it is a leap to see our exploitive relationship with Earth as part of a centuries-long war against the environment

Scorched earth: how the search for gold has scarred DRC’s Haut-Uélé province

admin — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:00:04 +0000

In the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, forests have been cleared for mines and the roads that service them. Large companies take what they can and move on, leaving abandoned ponds, toxic rivers and scraps of precious metal left in the ground

Words and photographs by Guerchom Ndebo in Moku with support from the National Geographic Society