Breaking Waves: Ocean News

How to fight a fascist state – what I learned from a second world war briefing for secret agents | Zoe Williams

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:10:20 +0000

You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for action

‘A pandemic-level shock to the system’: RFK Jr’s old environmental group weighs EPA cuts

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:49 +0000

Head of Riverkeeper, which helped clean up Hudson River, talks about challenges during the second Trump term

Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River.

Logging is quietly ravaging US forests. Trump is taking an axe to protections

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:48 +0000

Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop it

The world is running out of time to halt deforestation and forest degradation. Yet instead of stepping up, the United States is dismantling forest protections and undermining global progress – highlighting the dangers of global forest policy that fails to hold the wealthiest, most powerful countries accountable.

Clean energy spending boosts GOP districts. But lawmakers are keeping quiet as Trump targets incentives

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:30:47 +0000

We asked 18 Republicans whose districts benefit most from Biden’s IRA climate law if they back Trump’s demands

Billions of dollars in clean energy spending and jobs have overwhelmingly flowed to parts of the US represented by Republican lawmakers. But these members of Congress are still largely reticent to break with Donald Trump’s demands to kill off key incentives for renewables, even as their districts bask in the rewards.

Tesla investors brace for global sales data amid consumer backlash over Elon Musk

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:35:36 +0000

First-quarter deliveries will be significantly down, say analysts, with the CEO and his links with Donald Trump the ‘core toxic issue’

‘They started nibbling at its head’: the bold plan to rid an island of albatross-eating mice

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:00:42 +0000

South Africa’s Marion Island is a breeding ground for the birds, but their chicks are being eaten alive by rodents. Now, the world’s largest operation to eradicate the invasive species is about to get under way

Spain’s wild horses in peril – in pictures

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:00:42 +0000

By grazing between trees and removing potential wildfire fuel, wild horses help protect Galicia’s delicate ecosystems, but Europe’s largest herd has declined to just 10,000

Rain records to fall in Queensland with Townsville to set new annual high – in April

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:39:42 +0000

Meanwhile, Adelaide records driest period in decades and Perth swelters through temperatures above 35C

Cadia goldmine operators fined $350,000 for breaches of NSW clean-air laws

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:56:03 +0000

Testing had previously revealed the mine was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals

Peatland burning ban aims to protect wildlife and England’s carbon stores

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 23:00:32 +0000

Labour’s measures to ban deep-peat burning aim to safeguard habitats, tackle carbon emissions, and protect wildlife, so why are hunters up in arms?

Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions.

Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants that grow after the burn. This increases the number of birds available to be shot for sport.