Breaking Waves: Ocean News
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enBrazilian 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.orgAs the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/uk-prepares-its-next-carbon-budget-what-needs-be-included
<p>Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades</p>
<p>Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the government’s green ambitions, as advice for the UK’s next carbon budget is published.</p>
<p>Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/uk-prepares-its-next-carbon-budget-what-needs-be-included" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:02:28 +0000admin99018 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgHurricane-proof skyscrapers vulnerable to less powerful windstorms, study finds
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/hurricane-proof-skyscrapers-vulnerable-less-powerful-windstorms-study-finds
<p>Tall buildings fare poorly in derechos, say experts, raising questions over their resilience as climate crisis worsens</p>
<p>Skyscrapers built to withstand major hurricanes fare much more poorly in less powerful windstorms known as derechos, researchers have found, raising questions for cities worldwide over the resilience of tall buildings as the climate emergency worsens.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/hurricane-proof-skyscrapers-vulnerable-less-powerful-windstorms-study-finds" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:37 +0000admin99017 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgRolling back on climate actions may spell rise in preventable illness – study
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rolling-back-climate-actions-may-spell-rise-preventable-illness-study
<p>Net zero policies would result in fewer deaths saving UK billions, say researchers</p>
<p>Countries that weaken or stop their net zero and climate actions may be consigning their populations to decades of preventable illness.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rolling-back-climate-actions-may-spell-rise-preventable-illness-study" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:40:23 +0000admin99019 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org