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enDisparities in EV charging provision risk drop-off in UK transition, study warns
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/disparities-ev-charging-provision-risk-drop-uk-transition-study-warns
<p>Exclusive: Report finds poorer areas particularly affected by varying availability and cost of charging electric cars</p>
<p>The UK is at risk of a drastic slowdown in its transition to electric cars because of big disparities in the availability and cost of charging points, especially in poorer areas, a report says.</p>
<p>The study, by the consultancy Stonehaven, argues that given rapid advances in batteries and car range, persuading more people to move to electric vehicles is now less an issue of technology than one of “urban management and social equity”.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/disparities-ev-charging-provision-risk-drop-uk-transition-study-warns" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:00:09 +0000admin98404 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgHow extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/how-extreme-car-dependency-driving-americans-unhappiness
<p>A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting</p>
<p>The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/how-extreme-car-dependency-driving-americans-unhappiness" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:00:06 +0000admin98403 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgKew Gardens adds over 300 wild seeds in significant boost to living collection
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/kew-gardens-adds-over-300-wild-seeds-significant-boost-living-collection
<p>In 2024 horticulturalists made single biggest introduction of rare seeds to collection in the past decade</p>
<p>The <em>Codonopsis clematidea</em> smells like a skunk, the <em>Tulipa toktogulica</em> has a peculiar, elongated bulb and the <em>Fritillaria imperialis</em> is exceptionally tall. But to the horticulturalists who journeyed to remote alpine meadows and forests to find these rare flowers growing in the wild this year, they are nothing less than the “jewels of the earth”.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/kew-gardens-adds-over-300-wild-seeds-significant-boost-living-collection" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 08:00:01 +0000admin98402 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgAustralia’s best agency photography for 2024 – in pictures
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/australia-s-best-agency-photography-2024-pictures
<p>Protests, Taylor Swift and chubby penguins are all part of the best images from the wire agencies in 2024</p>
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<p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/gallery/2024/dec/29/australias-best-agency-photography-for-2024-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></p>
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:00:50 +0000admin98400 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgYouth pastor identified as man who died after shark bite off Queensland coast
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/youth-pastor-identified-man-who-died-after-shark-bite-queensland-coast
<p>The 40-year-old school chaplain was bitten by the shark while fishing with family in waters off Keppel Islands on Saturday</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/youth-pastor-identified-man-who-died-after-shark-bite-queensland-coast" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:32:48 +0000admin98401 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgI figured out how to use two-thirds less water — and it only took a week to set up
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/i-figured-out-how-use-two-thirds-less-water-and-it-only-took-week-set
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<li><strong>Read more from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/my-diy-climate-hack">My DIY climate hack</a>, a series on everyday people’s creative solutions to the climate crisis</strong></li>
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<p><em>While droughts are a natural feature of California’s climate, human-induced warming has made them even drier.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/i-figured-out-how-use-two-thirds-less-water-and-it-only-took-week-set" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:00:44 +0000admin98399 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org‘They’re stuck’: Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/they-re-stuck-cape-cod-seeing-more-whale-turtle-and-dolphin-strandings
<p>Changing tides have led to an increase of beached marine life, whom rescuers scramble to save before they die</p>
<p>While Cape Cod, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/they-re-stuck-cape-cod-seeing-more-whale-turtle-and-dolphin-strandings" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:00:43 +0000admin98398 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org‘When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor’: the architect viewing the West Midlands as a national park
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/when-i-show-people-they-think-it-s-mordor-architect-viewing-west-midlands-national-par
<p>Birmingham City University thinktank imagines new approach to urban areas and land use across the region </p>
<p>“When I show people this, they think it’s Mordor,” says landscape architecture professor Kathryn Moore with a smile.</p>
<p>She is pointing at a map of the West Midlands. But instead of buildings, roads and a sprawling canal network, this map shows the natural hills and undulations that lie below the human-made architecture.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/when-i-show-people-they-think-it-s-mordor-architect-viewing-west-midlands-national-par" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:00:37 +0000admin98396 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org‘We have to change our attitude’: wildlife expert says rhino horn trade must be legalised
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/we-have-change-our-attitude-wildlife-expert-says-rhino-horn-trade-must-be-legalised
<p>Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching </p>
<p>International trade in rhino horns should be legalised, a leading wildlife expert has urged.</p>
<p>Writing in the research journal <em>Science</em>, Martin Wikelski argues only carefully monitored, legitimate transactions in horns can save the world’s remaining species of rhinoceros.</p>
<p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/28/we-have-to-change-our-attitude-wildlife-expert-says-rhino-horn-trade-must-be-legalised">Continue reading...</a></p>
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:59:47 +0000admin98397 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.orgEnglish wildlife ‘could be disappearing in the dark’ due to lack of scrutiny
https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/english-wildlife-could-be-disappearing-dark-due-lack-scrutiny
<p>Conservationists issue warning as figures show three-quarters of SSSI sites have had no recent assessments </p>
<p>Conservationists have said wildlife could be “disappearing in the dark” after figures showed that three-quarters of England’s most precious habitats, wildlife and natural features have had no recent assessment of their condition.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/english-wildlife-could-be-disappearing-dark-due-lack-scrutiny" target="_blank">read more</a></p>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 05:00:28 +0000admin98395 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org