Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Biden calls on Congress to ‘step up’ funding for California as LA braces for ‘explosive fire growth’ – live

admin — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:18:10 +0000

Governor Newsom calls on state legislature to approve $2.5bn in extra aid as experts predict wildfires could be costliest disaster in US history

Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:16:23 +0000

Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs

US supreme court allows Hawaii lawsuit against fossil fuel firms’ misinformation

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:35:41 +0000

Honolulu officials had filed a lawsuit against the companies for an alleged decades long misinformation campaign

The supreme court has shot down the fossil fuel industry’s attempts to kill a Hawaii lawsuit, which is seeking to hold the sector accountable for an alleged decades-long misinformation campaign.

Zebra killed after being impaled by rhino at Colchester zoo

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:24:11 +0000

Rhino ‘unintentionally’ punctured zebra’s stomach in enclosure they shared, zoo says

A male zebra died after a female rhino unintentionally punctured his stomach, a zoo in Essex has said.

The rhino, called Astrid, had been sparring with her son Tayo when she tried to move Ziggy out of the way last Friday. Colchester zoo said Ziggy died of his injuries within minutes.

What is happening in Los Angeles is our future | Francine Prose

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:00:46 +0000

The news from California is clear, but we don’t want to see it. It’s too confounding, big, complex. But we can sense the danger

When I send anxious texts to friends in Los Angeles – friends who have been evacuated or who are waiting to leave , friends escaping a fire zone, wondering if their life’s work has been destroyed, worrying about the smoke’s effect on an asthmatic child – I always begin with the same three words:are you OK?

‘It’s ironic’: how climate crisis is driving Trump push on Greenland and Panama

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:40:11 +0000

What the president-elect calls a ‘giant hoax’ is changing the strategic calculus in the Arctic and for the Panama canal

Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland and the Panama canal is being shaped in part by a force that he has sought to deny even exists – the climate crisis.

Calls to halt kangaroo culling in Victoria’s Grampians after bushfires

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:00:08 +0000

Australian mainland states permit killing of nearly 5 million annually as part of industry supplying meat and leather products

‘Particularly dangerous’ wildfire weather returns to California and could linger for months, say forecasts

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:00:08 +0000

Forecasters say there won’t be winds as strong as last week’s record-setting gusts, but LA’s dry season will get worse

California wildfires – live updates

When it comes to forecasting the conditions for catastrophic California wildfires, there are two main ingredients: fuels (think grasses, shrubs, trees – basically anything that’s available for fires to burn) and winds.

UK faces broccoli and cauliflower shortage this spring

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:44:05 +0000

Growers blame weather challenges in UK and Europe, which Met Office says will become more frequent with climate breakdown

Broccoli, cauliflower and other brassicas may be in short supply this spring as the mild autumn and winter has caused the crops to come up early, growers have said.

Any shortages will prolong the so-called “hungry gap”, which runs from April to early June, when very few crops grown in the UK are ready to eat.

Mystery syndrome killing rainbow lorikeets and flying foxes leaves scientists baffled

admin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:04:29 +0000

‘The animals that don’t die need total nursing care,’ wildlife rescuer says, ahead of a potential spike in cases in coming weeks