Breaking Waves: Ocean News

North Sea oil and gas firm Perenco failing to seal old wells, documents show

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:00:19 +0000

Fears of fire and environmental disaster as company repeatedly misses UK deadlines to decommission sites

The North Sea’s biggest oil and gas infrastructure company is risking fires and environmental disasters, experts have warned, as documents reveal it is failing to plug its ageing oil wells in time and is missing decommissioning deadlines by up to a decade.

Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:00:15 +0000

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

Puffins, catfish and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:00:14 +0000

The 10,000 miles of coastline host a stunning variety of creatures, so put on a diving mask or just a pair of wellies and go on the hunt

Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:13 +0000

More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space

‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills

Thousands of polluted landfills across England could be leaking toxic chemicals into the environment and harming people who live nearby, experts have warned.

High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:01:05 +0000

Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions

Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there.

A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:00:03 +0000

Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people

Valerie Spears hadn’t planned on taking swim lessons when she RSVP’d to her high school reunion in New York City.

But when Spears, a 72-year-old retiree who lives in Akron, Ohio, learned about a free class in Queens, she decided to pack her bathing suit.

Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:05:21 +0000

No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis

A vast sinkhole has dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch that was laid above a limestone mine, just days after amateur teams stopped using the grounds for practice.

Nuclear more costly and could ‘sound the death knell’ for Australia’s decarbonisation efforts, report says

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:14 +0000

Analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says even if nuclear is successfully implemented it would be ‘at least four times’ more expensive than average cost of renewables

Fire ants could be spreading on Australian military bases due to ‘massive surveillance failure’, experts say

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:14 +0000

Exclusive: Invasive Species Council demands audit of all defence sites after red imported fire ants detected at Swartz Barracks outside Queensland containment zone

AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:36:58 +0000

Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by datacentres

Bill Gates has claimed that artificial intelligence will be more of a help than a hindrance in achieving climate goals, despite growing concern that an increase in new datacentres could drain green energy supplies.

The philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder told journalists that AI would enable countries to use less energy, even as they require more datacentres, by making technology and electricity grids more efficient.