Breaking Waves: Ocean News

New rules for NSW polluters to require ‘credible’ plan for mitigating climate impact

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 20:00:44 +0000

Exclusive: EPA chief executive says ‘foundational’ rule changes put climate impacts ‘front and centre' of planning process

Can Chicago’s mayor tackle environmental racism in one of the most segregated US cities?

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 16:00:39 +0000

Brandon Johnson promised to address the city’s longstanding inequities – advocates want to make the most of the moment

On the campaign trail, Brandon Johnson often talked about the asthma he suffered growing up just west of Chicago, connecting it to industrial pollution.

Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 15:33:51 +0000

Milford Haven, Southampton and Immingham top the list for emissions of gases and particulates

Ships calling at the UK’s most-polluted ports produce more nitrogen oxides than all the cars registered in the same cities or regions, analysis has shown.

A report from Transport & Environment (T&E) said that ships were continuing to discharge huge quantities of air pollutants at ports, with Milford Haven, Southampton and Immingham topping the list for emissions of harmful sulphur oxides and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) as well as nitrogen oxides (NOx).

Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 10:30:33 +0000

Death toll in southern state of Rio Grande do Sul increasing daily as authorities plan four ‘tent cities’ for 77,000 displaced people

Three weeks after one of Brazil’s worst-ever floods hit its southernmost state, killing 155 people and forcing 540,000 from their homes, experts have warned that water levels will take at least another two weeks to drop.

Vampire finches and deadly tree snakes: how birds went worldwide – and their battles for survival

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:32 +0000

A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London includes ‘tragic’ tales of species wiped out from their natural habitats

Douglas Russell, a senior curator at London’s Natural History Museum, was examining a collection of nests gathered on the island of Guam when he made an unsettling discovery.

‘Embrace the bog’: Chelsea flower show expert champions flood-proof garden

admin — Sun, 19 May 2024 06:00:28 +0000

As the prestige flower event begins, horticulturalists are shown how a waterlogged patch can help counter climate crisis

Gardeners should “embrace the bog” that has formed in backyards across the country after record rain, a designer at this week’s Chelsea flower show has said.

Thousands in Devon no longer have to boil drinking water, says supplier

admin — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:47:43 +0000

But authorities say households in some areas need to continue safety measures amid waterborne parasitic disease

Anger in Devon as more cases of waterborne disease expected

Thousands of people in Devon can now safely drink their tap water again without having to boil it first, the region’s water supplier has announced after a parasite outbreak.

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds

admin — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:07 +0000

PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater

Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are ubiquitous in the Great Lakes basin’s air, rain, atmosphere and water, new peer-reviewed research shows.

The first-of-its-kind, comprehensive picture of PFAS levels for the basin, which holds nearly 95% of the nation’s freshwater, also reveals that precipitation is probably a major contributor to the lakes’ contamination.

Eight climate activists arrested in Germany over airport protest

admin — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:42:29 +0000

About 60 flights cancelled after members of Letzte Generation glue themselves to ground at Munich

Eight climate activists have been arrested after causing Munich airport to close, leading to about 60 flight cancellations.

Six activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways, officials and local media reported.

Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

admin — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:35:02 +0000

Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods

At least 60 people have been killed in a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, according to an official.