Breaking Waves: Ocean News

This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope | Lucy Jones

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:16 +0000

A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs

What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK. As human-caused climate breakdown intensifies, the outdoor areas we spend time in are changing – and so, too, are our relationships with the land and the ecosystems we live in.

Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:00:14 +0000

Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research finds

The financing of transition mineral mining is driving widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses, according to a report.

Banks and investors have ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into companies mining for minerals for the manufacture of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, energy grids and electric vehicles in the past decade, according to the research.

Labor is poised to make a big call on our nation’s carbon emissions target. But who is Albanese going to listen to? | Clear Air

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:02:43 +0000

Australia’s 2035 target for cutting emissions will reveal how serious we are about addressing the climate crisis

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Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:50:36 +0000

More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

World’s biggest iceberg breaks up after 40 years: ‘Most don’t make it this far’

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:37:01 +0000

‘Megaberg’ known as A23a has rapidly disintegrated in warmer waters and could disappear within weeks

Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.

Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time.

English water firms spend £16.6m on legal fees over environmental breaches

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:56:44 +0000

MPs on Commons committee describe figures as a waste and say money should have been used to fix infrastructure

English water companies have spent £16.6m fighting legal action against regulators and campaigners over environmental breaches such as illegal sewage spills.

Correspondence from the companies to the Commons environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) committee published on Tuesday reveals that millions of pounds of billpayers’ money has been spent over the past five years on expensive external lawyers enlisted to reduce liabilities for regulatory breaches.

Eight-year-old loses ‘significant amount of blood’ after shark attack in Florida

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:46:39 +0000

Authorities said the boy, who survived and was hospitalized, was bitten while snorkelling near Key Largo

An eight-year-old child suffered “a significant amount of blood loss” after he was bitten by a shark as he was snorkelling near Key Largo on Monday, authorities in Florida said.

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo charity makes undisclosed donation to the Australia Institute

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:01:01 +0000

Exclusive: The progressive thinktank, which has championed a ‘real zero’ emissions policy, says it protects privacy of donors to avoid them being targeted

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There are just 150 of these creamy-flowered shrubs left in the world – and a Victorian fire break could destroy dozens

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:00:59 +0000

More than 40 round-leaf pomaderris discovered by environmental community group inside the area earmarked for fire break in July

A mere 150 round-leaf pomaderris were thought left in the world in 2021 and now a planned firebreak in Victoria could destroy dozens of the plants.

Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’, experts say

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:00:54 +0000

Over 85 top climate specialists lambasted administration’s review, calling it a ‘shoddy mess’ that downplays risks

A group of the US’s leading climate scientists have compiled a withering review of a controversial Trump administration report that downplays the risks of the climate crisis, finding that the document is biased, riddled with errors and fails basic scientific credibility.