Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:18:19 +0000

White House claims university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

Couple who ran Swedish eco-resort say 158 barrels of human waste left behind was ‘very normal’

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:21:29 +0000

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbæk reject criticism of how they abandoned resort and fled to Guatemala

A Danish couple who fled their “forest resort” in Sweden for Guatemala and left behind a large tax debt and 158 barrels of human waste have hit back at criticism and claimed that their handling of the compost toilets was “very normal”.

The Labor party has a legacy of action for the natural world. Now is the time for us to do better | Felicity Wade

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:44 +0000

Addressing the Australian extinction crisis and the decline of our environment will be possible when political leaders embrace it

‘Every year matters’: Queensland’s critically endangered ‘bum-breathing’ turtle battles the odds

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:43 +0000

Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems

I have dedicated far too much of my life to hating this ugly plant. It’s time to rip them out | Emily Mulligan

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:41 +0000

Agapanthus are daggy, environmental pests. Can we stop and think before these unsightly shrubs take over?

On my birthday I made time for my one true passion. Hating agapanthus.

I was walking my kids to school, taking time from their precious blink-and-you’ll-miss-it childhoods to seethe and take a picture of the revolting, saggy mess of agapanthus on the way. I have urgently supplied this picture to the Guardian and I’m ready and willing to speak out further.

Emily Mulligan is a writer from Sydney

Just 9.5% of plastic made in 2022 used recycled material, study shows

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:40 +0000

Global research reveals most of 400m tonnes produced using fossil fuels, predominantly coal or oil

Less than 10% of the plastic produced around the world is made from recycled material, according to the first detailed global analysis of its life cycle.

The research reveals that most plastic is made from fossil fuels, predominantly coal and oil, despite rhetoric by producers, supermarkets and drinks companies about plastic being recycled.

Endangered bum-breathing turtles and the town working to save them – video

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:38 +0000

In December 2024, when unseasonable flooding threatened the breeding season of a critically endangered turtle, Marilyn Connell and other members of a Queensland community conservation group sprang into action. The Mary river turtle is one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis

‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:00:27 +0000

John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans

UK adventurer apologises for record trek claim after Inuit backlash

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:28:51 +0000

Camilla Hempleman-Adams, who says she is first woman to traverse Canada’s Baffin Island solo, accused of ‘privilege and ignorance’

A British adventurer has apologised after her claims to be the first woman to traverse Canada’s largest island solo were dismissed by members of the Inuit population who criticised her dangerous “privilege and ignorance”.

Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, covered 150 miles (240km) on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Nunavut, in temperatures as low as -40C and winds of 47mph during the two-week expedition last month.

Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:27 +0000

After seeing the farmer mental health crisis up close, Kaila Anderson developed new treatment techniques based on growers’ deep connection to the land