Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/index.php en ‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/polluting-silvertown-tunnel-already-out-date-despite-just-opening-say-campaigners <p>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</p> <p>A multibillion-pound road tunnel under the River Thames will be out of date the moment it opens, according to campaigners.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/polluting-silvertown-tunnel-already-out-date-despite-just-opening-say-campaigners" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:00:09 +0000 admin 99511 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Parrtjima, a festival in light – in pictures https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/parrtjima-festival-light-pictures <p>Now in it’s 10th year the <a href="https://parrtjimaaustralia.com.au/">Parrtjima festival </a>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</p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/apr/07/parrtjima-a-festival-in-light-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></p> Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:28:20 +0000 admin 99512 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Is eating farmed salmon worth snuffing out 40m years of Tasmanian evolution? | Tim Flannery https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/eating-farmed-salmon-worth-snuffing-out-40m-years-tasmanian-evolution-tim-flannery <p>Without the strongest conservation efforts, it can’t be long before the Maugean skate – and other marine living fossils in Australia – are wiped out</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/eating-farmed-salmon-worth-snuffing-out-40m-years-tasmanian-evolution-tim-flannery" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:06:31 +0000 admin 99510 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Unsafe for Russia to restart Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Ukraine energy chief https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/unsafe-russia-restart-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-says-ukraine-energy-chief <p>Energoatom CEO, Petro Kotin, says ‘major problems’ need to be overcome before it can safely generate power</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/unsafe-russia-restart-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-says-ukraine-energy-chief" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:28:01 +0000 admin 99509 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Victoria police pay $90,000 to climate protester who claimed head was slammed into wall, door and ground https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/victoria-police-pay-90000-climate-protester-who-claimed-head-was-slammed-wall-door-and <p><strong>Exclusive: </strong>State makes no admissions as it settles case with activist who alleged police misconduct during 2019 arrest at Melbourne mining conference</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/victoria-police-pay-90000-climate-protester-who-claimed-head-was-slammed-wall-door-and" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:00:56 +0000 admin 99507 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos, and the teenager building nests for them – video https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/endangered-carnaby-s-black-cockatoos-and-teenager-building-nests-them-video <p>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</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/07/from-blackening-skies-to-barely-casting-a-shadow-the-carnabys-cockatoo-faces-a-bleak-future">From blackening skies to barely casting a shadow – the Carnaby’s cockatoo faces a bleak future</a></p> </li></ul><p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/endangered-carnaby-s-black-cockatoos-and-teenager-building-nests-them-video" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:00:55 +0000 admin 99508 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Even a freeway is redeemable’: world’s largest wildlife crossing takes shape in Los Angeles https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/even-freeway-redeemable-world-s-largest-wildlife-crossing-takes-shape-los-angeles <p>A wildlife crossing across the 101 freeway will connect two parts of the Santa Monica mountains for animals</p> <p>Above the whirring of 300,000 cars each day on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</a>’s 101 freeway, an ambitious project is taking shape. The Wallis Annenberg wildlife crossing is the largest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wildlife">wildlife</a> bridge in the world at 210ft long and 174ft wide, and this week it’s had help taking shape: soil.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/even-freeway-redeemable-world-s-largest-wildlife-crossing-takes-shape-los-angeles" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:00:54 +0000 admin 99506 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Former Tasmania premier Tony Rundle dies aged 86 – as it happened https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/former-tasmania-premier-tony-rundle-dies-aged-86-it-happened <p>This blog is now closed</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/former-tasmania-premier-tony-rundle-dies-aged-86-it-happened" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:14:00 +0000 admin 99504 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/observer-view-suvs-they-are-too-dangerous-and-too-big-their-drivers-should-be-made-pay <p>If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more</p> <p>Britain is facing an unusual crisis: carspreading. Our road vehicles are getting bigger as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/more-than-1m-cars-sold-in-uk-each-year-too-big-to-fit-typical-parking-space">people buy more and more SUVs of increasing dimensions and weight</a>. At the same time, our streets and parking places remain the same size.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/observer-view-suvs-they-are-too-dangerous-and-too-big-their-drivers-should-be-made-pay" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:30:42 +0000 admin 99505 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Effects of anthropogenic noise on marine mammal abundances informed by mixed methods https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/effects-anthropogenic-noise-marine-mammal-abundances-informed-mixed-methods <p>npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 06 April 2025; <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00113-w">doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00113-w</a></p> <p>Effects of anthropogenic noise on marine mammal abundances informed by mixed methods</p> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000 admin 99503 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org