Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Dark side of bright nights taking toll on forgotten invertebrates

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:28 +0000

From bats to moths, species working the night shift are suffering as light pollution soars

When we think about invertebrates, most of us picture bees, butterflies, worms, crabs or perhaps even a jellyfish. But did you know that at least two-thirds of invertebrates are active at night, meaning many are unlikely to be seen? Invertebrates carry out many of the same functions as their daytime counterparts, in some cases doing so with greater efficiency and variety.

Melbourne activist can’t rely on evidence from climate experts to defend protest charges, court finds

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:26:01 +0000

Brad Homewood is charged with four offences after a 2021 Extinction Rebellion protest at the Exxon/Mobil depot in Spotswood

Australia news live: Penny Wong says she expressed ‘importance of Oscar Jenkins’ condition’ to Russian foreign minister at G20

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:07:29 +0000

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Victoria to offer contactless public transport tickets from next year

Victorians will be able to use their phones, bank cards or smartwatches to pay for public transport travel from “early next year in a staged approach”, according to reports.

The EPA weighed two LA beachfront sites for toxic waste sorting. These ‘hippies and hicks’ revolted

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:57 +0000

Residents in Topanga Canyon – an area of Indigenous heritage and artists – mobilized against the state’s decision to bring in hazardous materials after wildfires

Worm-like creature with ‘dark secret’ wins New Zealand bug of the year award

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:15 +0000

Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo

An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature with a vicious hunting method that involves projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Zealand’s bug of the year.

Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:11 +0000

The condition of the state’s system was already precarious when the US president ordered billions of gallons be let out

Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:51 +0000

Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech

A fossil fuel company’s $300m lawsuit against Greenpeace opens in rural North Dakota on Monday, in a case that has been widely condemned by constitutional rights experts as baseless, bad faith litigation that threatens free speech.

Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth almost $70bn, accuses Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl).

‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:00:33 +0000

In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows

Billy Dasein was born on Rutland Street, Grimsby, in the front room of the house where he still lives. His father was a fitter, and his mother a housewife who also worked in the Tickler’s jam factory. He left school at 16 and wound up working at Courtauld’s synthetic textiles factory.

Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:33 +0000

Greenpeace argues European-backed projects hamper countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies

European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.

Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europe’s quest to diversify its energy supply.

Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration

admin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:04:43 +0000

Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.

Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.