Breaking Waves: Ocean News

What if Mother Earth could sue for mistreatment?

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:32:19 +0000

The study highlights the transformative potential of the Rights of Nature, which views nature as a rights-bearing entity, not merely an object of regulation and subjugation by extractive industries. The Llurimagua case -- a dispute over a mining concession in Ecuador's cloud forest -- illustrates this approach, providing a unique opportunity to rethink Earth system governance.

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout 70 years after use, research finds

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:00:43 +0000

Potential danger to humans and wildlife from harmful pesticide discovered in fish at 10 times safety limit

Residues of the insecticide DDT have been found to persist at “alarming rates” in trout even after 70 years, potentially posing a significant danger to humans and wildlife that eat the fish, research has found.

The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:00:39 +0000

Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools

Hurricane-hit Grenadians see climate change and reparations as one struggle

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:30:34 +0000

Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery

Wave of Earth Day protests as Americans mobilize against Trump

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:35 +0000

Organizers team up with pro-democracy groups for flurry of actions to demand right to free, healthy lives

Hundreds of marches, pickets and cleanup events are taking place across the US in the run-up to Earth Day on Tuesday, as environmental and climate groups step up resistance to the Trump administration’s authoritarianism and its “war on the planet”.

Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:30:31 +0000

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon

Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:30:30 +0000

Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking

Indigenous river campaigner from Peru honoured

Grassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize.

The contributions of coastal small-scale fisheries toward the sustainable development goals: a Kenyan Case Study

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 21 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00117-6

The contributions of coastal small-scale fisheries toward the sustainable development goals: a Kenyan Case Study

‘Last chance saloon’: the scramble to save Dorset’s vanishing Purbeck puffins

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:00:09 +0000

Numbers have plummeted in recent years, but the problem is no one really knows why nesting pairs fail to rear young

Reaching the vantage point is a tricky business.

First, there’s a hop across a fence into Scratch Arse quarry – the stone workers used to find it such a cramped space to work in that their backsides would bump into the rock face. Then, a tiptoe through the slopes of early spider orchids and wild cabbage before a dizzying scramble down to the edge of the cliff.

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, Trump is setting the stage for disaster | Terry Garcia

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:00:08 +0000

Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years ago