Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Big oil gathers in Texas – but beneath the bravado, Trump-induced anxiety

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:00:50 +0000

Energy summit in Houston makes clear US is nowhere close to curbing fossil fuels, but tariffs are causing disquiet

This week, the world’s most influential fossil-fuels conference, which has been dubbed the “Coachella of oil”, featured an industry displaying outward glee but barely managing to conceal its anxiety.

From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:00:45 +0000

Salford University findings show gulls are predators – not just opportunists snatching people’s snacks

In pictures: Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat?

Gulls are renowned for snatching chips from tourists’ hands, but a scientific project has revealed the greedy birds also like to tuck into moles and quench their thirst with seal milk.

Exploited, recognised as a slavery victim, now facing deportation: one seafarer’s UK ordeal

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:00:45 +0000

After years of helping Scottish criminal investigations and despite fearing for his life in India, Vishal Sharma’s asylum claim has been rejected

When Vishal Sharma, an experienced merchant seaman, arrived in London from India in November 2017, he was looking forward to a good job on a Belgian tanker, the MT Waasmunster, assisting engineers. He had a 15-month contract and a transit visa, enabling him to travel to Milford Haven in Wales, where the 174-metre vessel was anchored.

Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:00:44 +0000

Gulls are known for being ravenous – check out a selection of things they like

• All images from the Gulls Eating Stuff project

• From profiteroles to moles: project uncovers gulls’ surprising diet

Green leader Adrian Ramsay: Labour’s ‘growth v nature’ framing is an outrage

admin — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 06:00:42 +0000

Co-leader says deprioritisation of net zero is ‘extremely dangerous’ as he rejects ‘nimby-in-chief’ characterisation

Labour’s push for economic growth at the expense of climate and nature is “extremely dangerous”, the co-leader of the Green party has said.

Adrian Ramsay, the MP for Waveney Valley between Norfolk and Suffolk, was one of the five Green MPs elected to parliament last July in their best ever result. He said and his colleagues knew they would be holding Labour to account, but did not expect to be as disappointed as they have been.

Baby wombat-snatching US influencer apologises and says she was ‘concerned’ for Australian animal

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:48:42 +0000

Sam Jones, who left Australia on Friday, posted a 900-word statement questioning outrage in country where ‘slaughter of wombats’ is permitted

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