Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The artist Luke Jerram on the tree-planting project he’ll never see finished

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:16:45 +0000

This may be a midlife crisis, says man behind seven-metre installations of the Earth, moon and Sun who has planted 365 trees in 100-year project in Somerset

Luke Jerram – whose art installations have travelled the world – is philosophical about his latest project bearing fruit beyond his time on earth.

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:41 +0000

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.

Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:00:38 +0000

Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil with president’s team expected to send no representatives

The Trump administration appears to be sitting out this month’s United Nations climate talks known as Cop30, telling the Guardian it will not deploy any high-level representatives to the negotiations.

Week in wildlife: a toxic newt, a rescued gibbon and baby flying foxes

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:00:23 +0000

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

Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away?

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:00:21 +0000

From night walks with children to switching off streetlights and rewilding areas, naturalists are working to save Europe’s dwindling populations

An hour or so after sunset, green twinkles of possibility gleam beneath the hedgerows of Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset. Under an orange August moon, the last female glow-worms of the season are making one final push at finding a mate.

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:01:50 +0000

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:00:04 +0000

Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers

Amazonian lakes are being transformed into simmering basins hotter than spa baths as severe heatwaves and drought grip the region, research shows.

The temperature of one lake exceeded 40C (104F) as water levels plummeted under intense sunlight and cloudless skies. The extreme heat triggered mass die-offs among endangered Amazon river dolphins and fish, which cannot survive in such high temperatures.

Ignore the howls around pay-per-mile, chancellor. We can’t afford not to tax electric cars

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:51:34 +0000

The issue of how motoring taxes should change as we decarbonise the economy has been dodged for too long. Car salesmen need to get real

If you want a document to give you sleepless nights, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s biennial Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report is a go-to publication. This is the one that looks to the horizon and covers everything from demographic trends to state pension promises to the climate crisis.

Who are the major players at Cop30 and what do they want?

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:50:04 +0000

Delegates from global giants and smaller nations expected to clash at Brazilian summit over how to tackle the climate crisis and who should pay

The UN’s Cop30 climate conference is under way, with negotiators, diplomats and leaders from around the world in Belém, Brazil, to discuss how to handle the climate crisis.

Who are the big players, and what do they want?

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:32:34 +0000

UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘paradigm shift’

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.