Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Drowning in waste: Pollution hotspots in aquatic environments

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:52:12 +0000

A new study explores waste management systems and reveals that achieving zero waste leakage by 2030 is unlikely, potentially jeopardizing related Sustainable Development Goals. The authors emphasize the need for global cooperation, particularly across four regions, to responsibly manage waste disposal.

Journalists refused entry to Azerbaijan energy conference ahead of Cop29

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:44:17 +0000

Incident reignites concerns over crackdown on media before crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year

Western journalists were refused entry to an energy industry conference in Azerbaijan earlier this month, reigniting concerns over the state’s crackdown on the media ahead of crucial UN climate talks in Baku later this year.

Wimbledon urged to drop Barclays as sponsor over fossil fuel links

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:42:20 +0000

Climate groups and anti-war activists say bank using reported £20m deal to ‘hide its multitude of sins’

Wimbledon is facing calls to drop Barclays as a sponsor over the bank’s ties to fossil fuels and defence companies supplying Israel.

Ahead of the 2024 championships, which begin on Monday, climate groups and anti-war activists say the bank is using the event to “cover up its role” in funding the climate crisis and to “hide from accountability for its role in enabling Israel’s war crimes”.

Richard Tice accused of hypocrisy over firm’s embrace of green tech

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000

Reform chair is hostile to net zero but is CEO of company that boasted of ‘saving hundreds of tonnes of CO2’

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Richard Tice’s property company has enthusiastically embraced green technologies despite his public hostility as Reform UK chair to net zero targets and some of the same initiatives.

Colorado oil and gas wells can’t fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:00:20 +0000

A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn

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North Sea oil and gas firm Perenco failing to seal old wells, documents show

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:00:19 +0000

Fears of fire and environmental disaster as company repeatedly misses UK deadlines to decommission sites

The North Sea’s biggest oil and gas infrastructure company is risking fires and environmental disasters, experts have warned, as documents reveal it is failing to plug its ageing oil wells in time and is missing decommissioning deadlines by up to a decade.

Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:00:15 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Puffins, catsharks and sea squirts: how to spot wildlife on the British coast

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:00:14 +0000

The 10,000 miles of coastline host a stunning variety of creatures, so put on a diving mask or just a pair of wellies and go on the hunt

Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

admin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:13 +0000

More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space

‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills

Thousands of polluted landfills across England could be leaking toxic chemicals into the environment and harming people who live nearby, experts have warned.

High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:01:05 +0000

Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions

Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there.