Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:12 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Aceh in 2004. Now warning systems are in place, but some feel more could be done

Ghosts of the landscape: how folklore and songs are key to rewilding Finland’s reindeer

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:00:10 +0000

For ecologists restoring the vast bogs of remote Karelia, wild reindeer are not just part of the environment but entwined with the ancient culture of the boreal forests

The Finnish folk musician Liisa Matveinen lives in a mustard-coloured house in Ilomantsi, 12 miles (20km) from the Russian border. Large books of folk songs line her walls. Sitting in her kitchen, Matveinen sings about a humble hunter going into the woods to find reindeer.

On a wing and a prayer: the hidden beauty of insect’s flight – in pictures

admin — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:00:22 +0000

For the past decade, the Barcelona-based visual artist Xavi Bou has devoted his work to revealing “the hidden beauty of natural movement”. His initial focus was birds; now he’s moved on to insects. In collaboration with US entomologist Adrian Smith he’s created an eye-popping series that captures – by merging multiple frames into a single image – the rhythmic flutterings of butterflies and chaotic leaps of spittlebugs and treehoppers.

Vegan no more: a beloved Asheville plant-based cafe pivots to stay afloat post-hurricane

admin — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:20 +0000

Rosetta’s Kitchen in North Carolina now dishes up donated animal products to weather steep losses and feed people in need – but not all are happy with the change

One day in October, a trailer with an unusual delivery pulled up outside Rosetta’s Kitchen, a beloved vegan restaurant in downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people

admin — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:17 +0000

Researchers in North Carolina used underwater sonar to map a system created by enslaved people centuries ago

UK to ban bee-killing pesticides but highly toxic type could still be allowed

admin — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:00:11 +0000

Ministers set out plans for outlawing neonicotinoids but considering application by farmers to use Cruiser SB

Bee-killing pesticides are to be banned by the UK government, as ministers set out plans to outlaw the use of neonicotinoids.

However, the highly toxic neonicotinoid Cruiser SB could be allowed for use next year, as ministers are considering applications from the National Farmers’ Union and British Sugar.

Guardian Australia’s best photos of 2024 – in pictures

admin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

From break dancing to nude bathers and the country’s best mullets, here’s a selection of our photographers’ finest work

AI-driven approach reveals hidden hazards of chemical mixtures in rivers

admin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:28:43 +0000

Artificial intelligence can provide critical insights into how complex mixtures of chemicals in rivers affect aquatic life -- paving the way for better environmental protection.

Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

admin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:00:51 +0000

State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells

Oil and gas companies operating in Colorado have submitted hundreds of environmental impact reports with “falsified” laboratory data since 2021, according to state regulators.

Record number of protesters will be in UK prisons this Christmas

admin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:49 +0000

Forty people, aged 22 to 58, incarcerated for direct actions on climate and Gaza actions amid crackdown on dissent

• ‘You won’t find the real criminals here’: a Just Stop Oil activist in jail at Christmas

A record number of people who have taken part in protests will be in prison in the UK this Christmas, raising concern about the ongoing crackdown on dissent.