Breaking Waves: Ocean News

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.

First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters | Arwa Mahdawi

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:54:12 +0000

How do you stop people worrying about the climate emergency? By sacking anyone whose job it is to keep an eye on it. Chalk up another win for Project 2025

Invasive Asian hornets ‘preying on’ hundreds of native insect species in Europe

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:46:26 +0000

Researchers at University of Exeter warn many of the hunted species are important crop pollinators

Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe, including many which are important pollinators, researchers have warned.

The findings, from tests of the guts of more than 1,500 larvae, raise new concerns over the “extra threat” the hornet poses to native insects already under pressure from farming, changes in land use and chemical pollution.

Federal layoffs hit the deep-red, rural US west: ‘Our public lands are under threat’

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:00:56 +0000

As layoffs under Trump bleed out, workers in the Mountain West fear devastating consequences for their communities

Republican representative McKay Erickson walked through the halls of the Wyoming capitol with a Trump 2024 pin on the front of his suit jacket. Much of Erickson’s home district in Lincoln county falls under the jurisdiction of the Bridger-Teton national forest and Grand Teton national park.

$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:00:42 +0000

The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows

Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests.

Who gets the lion's share? Ecologists highlight disparities in global biodiversity conservation funding

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:54:28 +0000

The extensive loss of biodiversity represents one of the major crises of our time, threatening not only entire ecosystems but also our current and future livelihoods. As scientists realize the magnitude and scale of ongoing extinctions, it is vital to ascertain the resources available for conservation and whether funds are being effectively distributed to protect species most in need.

‘I’ve had a gutful’: Jacqui Lambie says salmon industry should get out of Macquarie Harbour

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:51:46 +0000

Tasmanian senator says she is ‘pro-salmon’ but the farms should move on to land or offshore

Threatened species: court asked to compel Australian ministers to create recovery plans

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:11:14 +0000

The Wilderness Society launches legal action in hope of helping animals on brink of extinction

Killer whales amaze Seattle onlookers with rarely seen bird hunt

admin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:08:43 +0000

Gasps from dockside crowd watching Bigg’s orca pod in event described as ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’

A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird.

The pod of Bigg’s killer whales visited Elliott Bay and were seemingly on a hunt underwater just off Seattle’s maritime industrial docks. The pod exited the bay close to the West Seattle neighborhood across from downtown, where people were waiting to catch sight of them.