Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilized internationally, according to an international research team.

WaterNSW testing shows drinking supply passes Australian cleanliness guidelines but community remains unconvinced about river management Sign up for the Rural Network email newsletter Join the Rural Network group on Facebook to be part of the community Officials at a heated town meeting in Menindee were made to drink a mug of town water in front of the crowd after they told the community that it met the national Australian drinking water standards. The public meeting of the pop-up emergency operation centre was held at Menindee civic hall on Tuesday to address community concerns relating to the cleanliness and security of water for the far western New South Wales town after the deaths of millions of fish in the Darling-Baaka River. Continue reading...

A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US Near downtown Tucson, Arizona, is Dunbar Spring, a neighborhood unlike any other in the city. The unpaved sidewalks are lined with native, food-bearing trees and shrubs fed by rainwater diverted from city streets. One single block has over 100 plant species, including native goji berries, desert ironwood with edamame-like seeds and chuparosa bushes with cucumber-flavored flowers. This urban food forest – which began almost 30 years ago – provides food for residents and roughage for livestock, and the tree canopy also provides relief to residents in the third-fastest warming city in the nation. It has made Dunbar Spring a model for other areas grappling with increased heat, drought and food insecurity caused by the climate crisis. Continue reading...

Avian flu has decimated the marine creatures on the country’s Pacific coastline and scientists fear it could be jumping from mammal to mammal At first, it appears to be dead. Its head lies in the sand, and a small tide pool has formed around it. Its shoulder blades jut out and its coffee and beige pelt hangs loosely on protruding vertebrae that taper down to its long tail flippers. But the young male sea lion is still alive. Its round wet eyes blink and occasionally it tries to move, rolling over or lifting its head, as the flooding tide inches it up the beach in Chepeconde, about 75 miles south of Peru’s coastal capital, Lima. Continue reading...