Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Fast-growing duckweed can go from garden menace to nutritional dish

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:00:18 +0000

The plant multiplies quickly, is rich in vitamins, and eaten across Asia. Why isn’t it on supermarket shelves?

In the summer sun, duckweed (Wolffia globosa) can be a menace. It grows so fast it covers a pond in a few days, blocking out the light for the life below. But it is this ability to multiply and its high nutritional value that has made it a potentially valuable food.

London exhibition explores design based on needs of nature and animals

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:00:17 +0000

Curator of Design Museum show says ‘human-centric’ approach to design needs overhaul amid climate crisis

Designers need to “fundamentally rethink our relationship with the natural world”, according to the curator of a new exhibition which argues the needs of nature and animals should be considered when creating homes, buildings and products.

Justin McGuirk, the curator of the upcoming More Than Human exhibition at the Design Museum in London, said our current “human-centric” approach to design needs to be radically overhauled as the world adapts to the climate crisis.

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:01:16 +0000

Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis

Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed.

The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution to global heating. Previous versions of the annual report have been used in legal cases against companies and investors.

Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11bn

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 05:00:16 +0000

The island is being sued by a mining company over its decision, and faces paying nine times its annual budget in damages if it loses

World’s biggest iceberg runs aground after a near-40-year journey from Antarctica

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:16:02 +0000

Scientists are studying whether the grounded A23a iceberg might help stir nutrients and make food more available for penguins and seals

The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70km (43 miles) from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said Tuesday.

‘Prepare for the worst’: northern NSW warned Cyclone Alfred’s impact could rival devastating 2022 floods

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:55:51 +0000

More than 100 schools closed and thousands without power as Tropical Cyclone Alfred generates high winds – even before it makes landfall

Tropical Cyclone Alfred: Queensland evacuations begin as storm path tracks towards Brisbane

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 22:30:13 +0000

Up to 20,000 homes could be flooded, with beachside and low-lying suburbs most at risk, city council flood map shows

Pair of bald eagles welcome two hatchlings in California

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:37:12 +0000

Jackie and Shadow, eagles in Big Bear valley recorded on a live webcam, regain hope three years after their last chick

Bald eagles named Jackie and Shadow are in the midst of cuddling with two new members of their nest after a couple of chicks hatched between Monday night and Tuesday morning, restoring hope after ravens ate their eggs two years ago.

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:22:20 +0000

Ruling by the court, which has a Republican super majority, undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act

The US supreme court has weakened rules on the discharge of raw sewage into water supplies in a 5-4 ruling that undermines the 1972 Clean Water Act.

The CWA is the principle law governing pollution control and water quality of the nation’s waterways.

‘Unusually strong’ storms bring risk of tornadoes and flash floods to US south

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:08:25 +0000

Powerful thunderstorms likely to sweep through Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

Severe thunderstorms are forecast to batter the southern and central United States on Tuesday, with a threat of tornadoes, damaging winds, blizzards, flash flooding and dust storms possible from the southern Plains into the lower Mississippi Valley and south-east.