Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Can you take a clean cruise holiday and which vessels are the worst emitters?

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:00:36 +0000

In a booming sector where the biggest ships have doubled in size since 2000, pressure is growing to make cruising a greener, more sustainable way to travel

Labor’s sad capitulation on the environment has shaken even true believers like me | Felicity Wade

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:43:17 +0000

As Australia’s natural environment declines, Labor appears to cave to vested interests, writes Felicity Wade

Environmental Defenders Office to pay $9m in costs to Santos over failed challenge to Barossa gas project

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:40:53 +0000

The case, brought by the EDO on behalf of three Tiwi Island traditional owners, was dismissed in January in a scathing judgment

‘We’ve heard these promises before’: is this the end of the line for Irish fishing?

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:00:37 +0000

Devastated by quota changes post-Brexit, fishers are pinning all their hopes on Ireland’s politicians as they head into a general election

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

admin — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:00:36 +0000

Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria

Abandonment, when it came, crept in from the outskirts. Homes at the edge of town were first to go, then the peripheral grocery stores. It moved inward, slow but inexorable. The petrol station closed, and creeper vines climbed the pumps, amassing on the roof until it buckled under the strain. It swallowed the outer bus shelters, the pharmacies, the cinema, the cafe. The school shut down.

Shells, teeth and bones of 'weird and wonderful organisms' provide historical environmental clues

admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:00:35 +0000

A groundbreaking international study shows how chemical fingerprints left by 'underappreciated' aquatic organisms could help scientists monitor global environmental change.

Vauxhall owner was ‘confident’ about meeting EV rules before factory shutdown

admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 18:08:08 +0000

Exclusive: Stellantis executive’s recent comments to investors undermine claim Luton closure was down to emission mandate

No need to mourn Just Eat’s exit from LSE

The owner of Vauxhall told investors that it was “confident” it would meet the UK’s rules on electric vehicle sales just two months before it blamed them for the decision to close a factory in Luton, the Guardian can reveal.

Defra cuts pose ‘existential threat’ to England’s most beautiful areas

admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:34:55 +0000

Exclusive: National landscapes’ chiefs say environment secretary has given no budget assurances and they are to expect cuts

Proposed cuts to England’s most beautiful landscapes pose an “existential threat”, the managers of the National Landscapes Association have warned.

Salt water creeping up Delaware River in worrying sign for big fresh water source

admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:07:35 +0000

Source of Philadelphia’s drinking water sees salt line pushed closer to city by drought and sea level rise

Salty ocean water is creeping up the Delaware River, the source for much of the drinking water for Philadelphia and millions of others, brought on by drought conditions and sea level rise, and prompting officials to tap reservoirs to push the un-potable tide back downstream.

Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks

admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:14:27 +0000

Fossil fuel and chemical industry representatives outnumber those of the EU or host country South Korea

Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world.