Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Greenpeace loss will embolden big oil and gas to pursue protesters: ‘No one will feel safe’

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:00:18 +0000

As Trump pushes ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, Greenpeace verdict offers startling outlook for environmental activism

Sewage in England’s rivers and seas – in pictures

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:55 +0000

The pumping of sewage into rivers and seas has become a scandal in Britain. Photographer Dylan Martinez has spent years travelling around the country to capture the story of its broken sewage system.

In England, water companies discharged sewage for 3.6m hours in 2023, polluting streams, rivers and coastlines, littering them with sanitary products and condoms, damaging ecosystems and habitats, and scaring away tourists.

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:00:55 +0000

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins

If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.

Week in wildlife: March hares, a dreaming dormouse and the first chicks of spring

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:00:54 +0000

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

Invertebrates! Everyone loves invertebrates! Which is your favourite? | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:49:00 +0000

I love them all even the creepy weird ones

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The mystery of why kangaroos hop could be solved thanks to this musky mammal

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:47:31 +0000

Kangaroos and wallabies are the only hopping species heavier than 5kg, and the small musky rat-kangaroo might help us learn why

Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:40:31 +0000

Hilo office, with scientists and their volcano-monitoring equipment, may have lease cancelled from Doge cuts

As Hawaii’s most active volcano shot out fountains of lava on Thursday, some of them reaching as high as 700ft, scientists from the US Geological Survey have been posting regular updates on the scale and pace of the eruptions.

Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:00:42 +0000

Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources

Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences.

Spanish parliament vote on cutting food waste will end ban on wolf hunting

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:46:55 +0000

Amendment brought by coalition of parties says wolves add to food waste due to remains of livestock they kill

The Spanish parliament has voted through a measure that will in effect lift the hunting ban on wolves that was imposed in 2021.

A coalition led by the conservative People’s party, with the support of the far-right Vox party and Basque and Catalan nationalists, added an amendment to a law aimed at reducing Spain’s estimated 1.2bn kilograms of food waste.

West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:14:29 +0000

Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.