Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:28:57 +0000

Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders sounded an alarm on Friday, saying rollbacks proposed by the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s dual mission to protect the environment and human health.

‘Germany is back’: Merz secures Greens’ support for defence spend boost

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:29:57 +0000

Backing of Greens is tantamount to approval of chancellor-in-waiting’s proposal to relax debt brake

Germany’s conservative chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has said he has secured the support of the Green party for his radical plan to increase spending on defence and infrastructure after marathon talks that went through the night, paving the way for its approval in parliament.

Why I quit my homestead dream just as farmer tradwives became mainstream

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:00:22 +0000

Our homesteading journey began with self-sufficiency and a dream, but it evolved through loss and social media fame

UK hoping to work with China to counteract Trump’s climate-hostile policies

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:16:15 +0000

Ed Miliband visits Beijing as part of plan to create global axis working in favour of climate action

Week in wildlife: leapfrogging monkeys, a strolling tortoise and Lincolnshire seals

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:00:20 +0000

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

The global battle against the climate crisis needs China. I’m visiting Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them | Ed Miliband

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:00:20 +0000

I will be the first UK energy secretary since 2017 to visit. It is negligence towards today’s and future generations not to engage China on this critical topic

Richest farmers in England may lose sustainability funding in Defra review

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:00:19 +0000

Exclusive: Officials explore restricting incentive to allocate greater funds to farms with less money and more nature

The richest farmers will not be able to apply for post-Brexit nature funding under plans for England being considered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Farming groups and climate experts have warned that such a plan would “leave farmers in the cold” and make it more difficult for the UK to reach net zero by 2050.

Attacking a young tourist over her treatment of a wombat is hypocritical – and misses the point | Georgie Purcell

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:33:47 +0000

What’s happening to our native wildlife across the country is just as horrific as what we witnessed in that video – it’s just occurring behind closed doors

‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:00:18 +0000

The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming

It was one of China’s most ambitious environmental endeavours ever.

National Trust creates living gene bank of endangered native black poplar

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 05:00:19 +0000

Cuttings of tree captured by John Constable being planted on restored Devon floodplain

Captured by John Constable in one of his most celebrated paintings, the black poplar tree was once as common as oak and beech in Britain.

Now the rarest and most threatened native species in the country, the National Trust is creating a living gene bank of the black poplar to ensure Constable’s The Hay Wain does not become a tribute to an extinct breed.