Breaking Waves: Ocean News

03/22/2024 - 02:00
The Long Table says it took thousands of hours of work to turn derelict site into a community space, but landlord has now sold it A Gloucestershire restaurant with a radical business model, in that it feeds all comers regardless of their ability to pay, is losing its premises after the owner sold the property. The community around The Long Table, featured in the Guardian earlier this month, has been left reeling after it was ordered to move out of the mill it occupies in Stroud – even as it sought to engage with the landlord to buy the building. Continue reading...
03/22/2024 - 01:00
Campaigners call on banks to cease funding Ithaca, which is playing a key role in Rosebank oilfield plan Two major UK high street banks have been accused of continuing to finance fossil fuel expansion in the North Sea despite signing a pledge to align their activities with the net zero climate goal. HSBC and NatWest have provided tens of millions in finance to Ithaca Energy, a British oil and gas company that is playing a key role in plans to exploit the controversial Rosebank oilfield north-west of the Shetland Islands. Another high street bank, Lloyds, also provided finance but has since sold down the debt. Continue reading...
03/21/2024 - 23:00
npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 22 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s44183-024-00054-w Macroeconomic impact of an international fishery regulation on a small island country
03/21/2024 - 22:33
Police called after the 1.4-metre freshwater crocodile wandered into the Townsville business Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast A freshwater crocodile has surprised residents by wandering into a north Queensland service station, prompting an unusual call to police. The snappy customer was spotted wandering into the Townsville business on Tuesday night. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
03/21/2024 - 18:01
World water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the UN has said in a plea to countries to mend conflicts over water resources. Stress on water resources, which is being exacerbated by the climate crisis, as well as overuse and pollution of the world’s freshwater systems, is a large source of conflict, according to the latest UN world water development report. Continue reading...
03/21/2024 - 17:28
States including Texas, Louisiana and Florida say federal government lacks authority to broadly deny permits Sixteen US states, including Texas, Louisiana and Florida, have filed a lawsuit to challenge the US federal government’s ban on approving applications to export liquefied natural gas, the office of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said on Thursday. The lawsuit argues the federal government lacks the authority to broadly deny those permits. Continue reading...
03/21/2024 - 14:55
A product used to control pest slugs on farms in multiple countries is deadly to least one type of native woodland snail endemic to the Pacific Northwest, according to scientists who say more study is needed before the product gains approval in the United States.
03/21/2024 - 14:53
What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety of species, as early ecologists believed, or does diversity do the exact opposite, and lead to instability, as modern theory predicts? A new study suggests an answer to this question that has been a subject of debate among ecologists for half a century.
03/21/2024 - 14:52
Forests and streams are separate but linked ecosystems, existing side by side, with energy and nutrients crossing their porous borders and flowing back and forth between them. For example, leaves fall from trees, enter streams, decay and feed aquatic insects. Those insects emerge from the waters and are eaten by birds and bats. An international team has now found that these ecosystems appear to keep the energy exchanges in balance -- a finding that the scientists called surprising.
03/21/2024 - 13:14
MSPs vote for controls as it emerges another hen harrier has vanished in area ‘notorious’ for persecution Grouse moors across Scotland will be required to hold licences and could face shooting bans as part of radical measures to combat bird of prey persecution passed by MSPs on Thursday. The Scottish parliament voted for the controls amid intense pressure from conservation scientists and campaigners after decades of illegal attacks on birds of prey by gamekeepers instructed to protect grouse on shooting estates from being eaten. Continue reading...