Breaking Waves: Ocean News
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enUK soil breakthrough could cut farm fertiliser use and advance sustainable agriculture
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/uk-soil-breakthrough-could-cut-farm-fertiliser-use-and-advance-sustainable-agriculture
<p>Research group says discovery could lead to new type of environmentally friendly farming</p>
<p>A biological mechanism that makes plant roots more attractive to soil microbes has been discovered by scientists in the UK. The breakthrough – by researchers at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Norfolk – opens the door to the creation of crops requiring reduced amounts of nitrate and phosphate fertilisers, they say.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/uk-soil-breakthrough-could-cut-farm-fertiliser-use-and-advance-sustainable-agriculture" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:00:08 +0000admin99030 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/technofossils-how-humanity-s-eternal-testament-will-be-plastic-bags-cheap-clothes-and-
<p>Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists</p>
<p>As an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/technofossils-how-humanity-s-eternal-testament-will-be-plastic-bags-cheap-clothes-and-" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:00:04 +0000admin99028 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgExtremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/extremists-would-not-need-create-authoritarian-state-britain-starmer-doing-them-george
<p>The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal</p>
<p>If the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/extremists-would-not-need-create-authoritarian-state-britain-starmer-doing-them-george" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:00:02 +0000admin99029 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgBrazilian city in Amazon declares emergency after huge sinkholes appear
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/brazilian-city-amazon-declares-emergency-after-huge-sinkholes-appear
<p>In Buriticupu, about 1,200 people risk losing their homes, and residents have seen the problem escalate in 30 years</p>
<p>Authorities in a city in the Brazilian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/amazon-rainforest">Amazon </a>have declared a state of emergency after huge sinkholes opened up, threatening hundreds of homes.</p>
<p>Several buildings in Buriticupu, in Maranhão state, have already been destroyed, and about 1,200 people of a population of 55,000 risk losing their homes into a widening abyss.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/brazilian-city-amazon-declares-emergency-after-huge-sinkholes-appear" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:08:56 +0000admin99027 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgThe rising tide of sand mining: A growing threat to marine life
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rising-tide-sand-mining-growing-threat-marine-life
<p>Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity.</p>
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:52:45 +0000admin99026 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgLabor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous | Tim Winton
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/labor-hasn-t-delivered-more-effective-nature-laws-it-s-not-just-embarrassing-it-s-cala
<p>As Ningaloo reef bleaches and an election looms, we must hold to account those who stand in the way of our safety – the small cohort profiting from fossil fuels, and the politicians who protect them</p>
<p>Late last spring, I was part of an expedition to Scott Reef, a magnificent coral atoll nearly 300 kilometres off the Kimberley coast. And while it was a privilege to be in such a remote and wonderful place, watching rare and endemic sea life drifting past, the moment I tipped from the boat in my mask and fins, I knew something was wrong.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/labor-hasn-t-delivered-more-effective-nature-laws-it-s-not-just-embarrassing-it-s-cala" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:42 +0000admin99024 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgAnthony Albanese under pressure on salmon farming from both conservationists and industry
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/anthony-albanese-under-pressure-salmon-farming-both-conservationists-and-industry
<p>The future of Tasmanian salmon farms has become a political issue centred on whether they can coexist with the endangered Maugean skate</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/anthony-albanese-under-pressure-salmon-farming-both-conservationists-and-industry" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:42 +0000admin99022 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgEight Labor ‘climate champions’ to get election help from party’s grassroots environment action group
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/eight-labor-climate-champions-get-election-help-party-s-grassroots-environment-action-
<p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Ged Kearney, Kate Thwaites, Josh Burns, Jerome Laxale, Sally Sitou, Alicia Payne, Josh Wilson and Renee Coffey will get extra door-knocking, phone banking and push ads</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/eight-labor-climate-champions-get-election-help-party-s-grassroots-environment-action-" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:40 +0000admin99023 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgMass firings hamstring federal land agencies and wildfire response
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/mass-firings-hamstring-federal-land-agencies-and-wildfire-response
<p>Concerns are mounting that depleting already thinned ranks will only hamper extreme weather response efforts</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/mass-firings-hamstring-federal-land-agencies-and-wildfire-response" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:38 +0000admin99021 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgOutcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/outcry-trump-withdraws-support-research-mentions-climate
<p>US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety</p>
<p>The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/outcry-trump-withdraws-support-research-mentions-climate" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:40 +0000admin99020 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org