Breaking Waves: Ocean News

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:00:14 +0000

Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, celebrating our spineless, friendly neighbours. But which creature won?

Poor countries say rich world betraying them over climate pledges on shipping

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:00:11 +0000

Proposal that ships pay levy on emissions to fund climate action in poor countries opposed by powerful economies

Poor countries have accused the rich world of “backsliding” and betrayal of their climate commitments, as they desperately tried to keep alive a long-awaited deal to cut carbon from shipping.

Nations from 175 countries have gathered in London this week at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to hammer out the final details of a deal, more than a decade in the making, that could finally deliver a plan to decarbonise shipping over the next 25 years.

Scientists target queen bees in search of secret to longer life

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:00:10 +0000

UK’s £800m research body backs project that could unlock radical therapies to extend human lifespans

The curious case of the queen bee has long had scientists pondering whether the head of the hive harbours the secret to a long and healthy life.

While queen bees and workers have nearly identical DNA, the queens enjoy what might be regarded as royal privileges. They are larger, fertile throughout life and survive for years compared with workers, who last a few months at best.

‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:00:09 +0000

Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

A multibillion-pound road tunnel under the River Thames will be out of date the moment it opens, according to campaigners.

Parrtjima, a festival in light – in pictures

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:28:20 +0000

Now in its 10th year, the Parrtjima festival is a free event showcasing installations, interactive workshops and performances all centred around this year’s theme, ‘Timelessness’. The festival is on now at Alice Springs desert park until 13 April

Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:06:31 +0000

Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out

Unsafe for Russia to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Ukraine energy chief

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:28:01 +0000

Energoatom CEO, Petro Kotin, says ‘major problems’ need to be overcome before it can safely generate power

It would be unsafe for Russia to restart the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and would take Ukraine up to two years in peacetime if it regained control, the chief executive of the company that runs the vast six-reactor site has said.

Victoria police pay $90,000 to climate protester who claimed head was slammed into wall, door and ground

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:00:56 +0000

Exclusive: State makes no admissions as it settles case with activist who alleged police misconduct during 2019 arrest at Melbourne mining conference

Endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for them – video

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:00:55 +0000

Eva Czislowski, a student and activist, says Carnaby’s black cockatoos used to blacken the sky. ‘I can't believe that I won't be able to experience that,' she says. The endemic WA bird is just one of 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat, in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis

From blackening skies to barely casting a shadow – the Carnaby’s cockatoo faces a bleak future

‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:00:54 +0000

A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals

Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on Los Angeles’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest wildlife bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.