Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The Observer view: the Cop summit is foundering, we need urgent action not more hot air

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:35:16 +0000

The grim negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan, have shown the need for reform of the UN annual global climate talks

‘Global emissions continue to increase, carbon sinks are being degraded and we can no longer exclude the possibility of surpassing 2.9C of warming by 2100.” It is a bleak assessment of our planet’s future and could have been made by just about any environmental organisation on Earth.

How winter makes recycling harder with 40% jump in contamination

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:00:05 +0000

New data reveals an extra 5,000 tonnes of waste is sent to landfill or incineration from November to March

Plastic bottles are reviled for polluting the oceans, leaching chemicals into drinks and being a source of microplastics in the human body.

I’m finally into ‘prepping’ and ready for the apocalypse | Eva Wiseman

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:00:04 +0000

Piles of loo paper, a years worth of tinned good and snake-proof boots. No wonder prepping has become a lifestyle choice

Prepping – I’m coming round to it. I’ve had Prepare, the old government website that Oliver Dowden launched this spring, open on my laptop in a quivering tab for a while now, and this week I’ve been dipping in every now and then to remind myself of “how to prepare for an emergency”. How many bottles of water we may need, tweezers, a sage reminder about the fact of tinned meat.

Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain | Will Hutton

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 07:00:03 +0000

Prices and rents will fall under Rachel Reeves’ plans, enabling a younger generation with new ideas to enter the field

Australia will detail its 2035 emission targets ‘sometime next year’, Anthony Albanese says

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:15:33 +0000

‘You not only know what we’re going to do but how we’re going to get there,’ PM tells voters

Anthony Albanese ‘very confident’ Australian exporters won’t be slugged with heavy US trade tariffs

admin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:25:29 +0000

PM seeks to reassure Australians about the fate of their businesses under US Trump administration

Trump picks oil and gas industry CEO Chris Wright as next energy secretary

admin — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:06:17 +0000

Oilfield services exec denies climate crisis and is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas production

Donald Trump said on Saturday that Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive and a staunch defender of fossil fuel use, would be his pick to lead the US Department of Energy.

Red squirrels ‘to vanish from England’ unless vaccine against squirrelpox funded

admin — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:29:03 +0000

Conservation group warns species threatened by exploding populations of grey squirrels who carry lethal virus

Red squirrels will soon disappear from England unless the government funds a vaccine against squirrelpox, one of the biggest groups set up to protect the species has warned.

Conservationists say the English population of non-native grey squirrels has exploded this year, triggered by warmer winters which enable mating pairs to feed and breed all year round, and estimate that 70% are carrying squirrelpox, a virus which is lethal only to red squirrels.

UN warns of ‘economic carnage’ if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries

admin — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:55:36 +0000

Wealthy nations are yet to offer the hundreds of billions of dollars that economists say are needed to help the developing world cut emissions

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies meeting in Rio de Janeiro on Monday must agree to provide the finance that the world’s poorest need to tackle the climate crisis or face “economic carnage”, the UN has warned.

Get away, grizzly: why scientists are chasing bears with drones

admin — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:00:45 +0000

Wildlife experts in US west have found small aircraft are ideal for protecting humans and livestock from predators

The first time that Terry Vandenbos watched a bear run from a drone, on a spring day two years ago, he was chasing the animal himself. After he saw the grizzly cross a road near his property, the Montana rancher hopped on his all-terrain vehicle, planning to scare it away from his cattle if needed.