Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The toxins around us threaten our fertility. Black families face an outsize risk

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:00:37 +0000

My fear growing up was gun violence. But a bigger threat to my body may have come from an invisible villain

Everyone experiences a moment that shapes who they are – a moment when childhood innocence is lost, and the burdens and traumas of the world become clearer.

Pro-gas group with link to Liberal party referred to ACCC over alleged misleading claims

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:00:38 +0000

Integrity organisation claims Australians for Natural Gas overstates role of gas in economy and failed to disclose directors’ links to industry on website

Trump order to loosen fishing regulations poses major risks, experts warn

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 12:00:31 +0000

Conservationists fear fallout from president’s proclamation on fishing in federally protected area of Pacific Ocean

A psychologically wise intervention to inform relational organizing in the face of climate and ocean change

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 27 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00115-8

A psychologically wise intervention to inform relational organizing in the face of climate and ocean change

Fears Trump’s deep-sea mining order will irreparably harm ecosystems

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:30:03 +0000

Environment groups say Thursday order ignores effort to adopt rules to prevent harmful mining of ocean floor

Environmental groups are decrying an executive order signed by Donald Trump to expedite deep-sea mining for minerals, saying it could irreparably harm marine ecosystems and ignores an ongoing process to adopt international rules for the practice.

London councils yet to spend £130m in local climate funds

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:00:04 +0000

Exclusive: Local authorities have spent less than £40m out of £170m collected since offsetting scheme began in 2016

‘Smart, green thinking’: four innovative London council carbon-offset projects

London councils are sitting on more than £130m that should be funding local climate action, the Guardian can reveal.

How space exploration can improve life on Earth | Leigh Phillips

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:00:01 +0000

There is a cynical, ‘anti-space’ ideology emerging, especially on some parts of the left. But this is misguided

John F Kennedy once called space-faring “the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which Man has ever embarked”. We go to space because, he said – like George Mallory said of his reason to conquer Everest – “it is there.”

More than 100 landfills in England may be leaching ‘highly hazardous’ waste

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:00:56 +0000

Inadequate record keeping means councils do not know whether former waste sites contain toxic substances

More than 100 old landfills in England that may be contaminated with toxic substances have flooded since 2000, potentially posing a serious safety risk, it can be revealed.

Some of these former dumps containing possibly hazardous materials sit directly next to public parks and housing estates with hundreds of households, the analysis by the Greenpeace-funded journalism website Unearthed , in partnership with the Guardian, found.

Pacific island states urge rich countries to expedite plans to cut emissions

admin — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:00:54 +0000

Developed countries pressed to submit national plans well before Cop30 as time runs out to avoid 1.5C temperature rise

Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger, some of the world’s most vulnerable nations have warned.

All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far only a small majority have done so, and some of the plans submitted have been inadequate to the scale of action needed.

Six things we learned about the future of energy security at UK summit

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:32:55 +0000

Critical minerals, nuclear power and the ‘weaponisation’ of energy supplies were discussed at international conference

The UK and the International Energy Agency gathered ministers and high-level officials from 60 countries to Lancaster House in London for two days of talks on the future of energy security this week. The EU was out in force, the US sent a top official, but China stayed away. Here’s what we learned.