Breaking Waves: Ocean News

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

Week in wildlife: leapfrogging monkeys, a strolling tortoise and Lincolnshire seals

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:00:20 +0000

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

The global battle against the climate crisis needs China. I’m visiting Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them | Ed Miliband

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:00:20 +0000

I will be the first UK energy secretary since 2017 to visit. It is negligence towards today’s and future generations not to engage China on this critical topic

Richest farmers in England may lose sustainability funding in Defra review

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:00:19 +0000

Exclusive: Officials explore restricting incentive to allocate greater funds to farms with less money and more nature

The richest farmers will not be able to apply for post-Brexit nature funding under plans for England being considered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Farming groups and climate experts have warned that such a plan would “leave farmers in the cold” and make it more difficult for the UK to reach net zero by 2050.

Attacking a young tourist over her treatment of a wombat is hypocritical – and misses the point | Georgie Purcell

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 06:33:47 +0000

What’s happening to our native wildlife across the country is just as horrific as what we witnessed in that video – it’s just occurring behind closed doors