Breaking Waves: Ocean News

As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:02:28 +0000

Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades

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.

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.

Hurricane-proof skyscrapers vulnerable to less powerful windstorms, study finds

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:37 +0000

Tall buildings fare poorly in derechos, say experts, raising questions over their resilience as climate crisis worsens

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.

Rolling back on climate actions may spell rise in preventable illness – study

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:40:23 +0000

Net zero policies would result in fewer deaths saving UK billions, say researchers

Countries that weaken or stop their net zero and climate actions may be consigning their populations to decades of preventable illness.

Week in wildlife: slimy capybaras, mating frogs and a rescued monkey

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:10:26 +0000

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

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:00:29 +0000

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

All photographs courtesy of Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025

Dark side of bright nights taking toll on forgotten invertebrates

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:28 +0000

From bats to moths, species working the night shift are suffering as light pollution soars

When we think about invertebrates, most of us picture bees, butterflies, worms, crabs or perhaps even a jellyfish. But did you know that at least two-thirds of invertebrates are active at night, meaning many are unlikely to be seen? Invertebrates carry out many of the same functions as their daytime counterparts, in some cases doing so with greater efficiency and variety.

Melbourne activist can’t rely on evidence from climate experts to defend protest charges, court finds

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:26:01 +0000

Brad Homewood is charged with four offences after a 2021 Extinction Rebellion protest at the Exxon/Mobil depot in Spotswood

Wong says she expressed ‘importance of Oscar Jenkins’ condition’ to Russian foreign minister – as it happened

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:07:29 +0000

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The EPA weighed two LA beachfront sites for toxic waste sorting. These ‘hippies and hicks’ revolted

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:57 +0000

Residents in Topanga Canyon – an area of Indigenous heritage and artists – mobilized against the state’s decision to bring in hazardous materials after wildfires

Worm-like creature with ‘dark secret’ wins New Zealand bug of the year award

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:15 +0000

Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo

An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature with a vicious hunting method that involves projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Zealand’s bug of the year.