Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Floods in the midwest, hurricanes in Appalachia: there were never any climate havens

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:00:34 +0000

Analysts and investors have long trumpeted ‘climate-proof’ US communities, but recent disasters show the need for a different way of thinking

US climate research agency braces for ‘efficiency’ cuts: ‘They will gut the work’

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:00:35 +0000

Workers at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fear crackdown will have global fallout

The Trump administration has set its sights on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the US’s pre-eminent climate research agency, with significant cuts and a political crackdown on climate science. As Trump takes aim at the agency, the impact is likely to be felt across the US and around the world.

Trump may rue firing experts when environmental rollbacks land in court

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:00:35 +0000

Advocacy groups are better prepared than the first term for legal challenges – but will the administration obey rulings?

Amid spending freezes and policy rollbacks from Donald Trump, environmental advocacy groups are gearing up for a long series of legal showdowns with the administration.

The US is destroying climate progress. Here’s a strategy to win over the right | Erin Burns

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:00:34 +0000

It’s time to rethink how climate action succeeds. The key is to acknowledge that it’s never the sole force driving political decisions

We are witnessing the most devastating climate disasters on record: wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, deadly floods in North Carolina, and global temperature records shattered month after month. We have officially surpassed 1.5C of warming, a critical threshold scientists have long warned against. At the same time, the US is scaling back policies, freezing critical programs and shifting priorities away from climate action.

BP to raise oil and gas spending to $10bn a year in pivot away from green goals

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:27:27 +0000

Firm confirms plans to scale back green energy efforts and ‘fundamentally reset’ strategy

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BP will abandon its green ambitions by increasing its oil and gas investment to $10bn a year as part of a fundamental reset of the troubled company’s strategy.

‘Losing hope with every day that passes’: torment of the ships’ crews abandoned at sea

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:00:05 +0000

Thousands of seafarers are left on board their vessels in foreign waters, unpaid, with scant supplies – and no way of getting home

When Vihaan* set off from his home in Tamil Nadu, south India, to work on a vessel crossing the Bay of Bengal into neighbouring Bangladesh, he told his family he would be gone a few months. After delivering his cargo of stone to Bangladesh’s Kutubdia Island, the marine engineer was due to head home in March 2024 to disembark at Thoothukudi port, India.

‘Superpod’ of more than 2,000 dolphins frolic off California coast: ‘Like flying eyebrows’

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:06:13 +0000

Boat tour captures video of Northern right whale dolphins, Pacific white-sided dolphins and light grey baby calves

More than 2,000 dolphins gathered off the California coast to form a “superpod”, gliding and breaching the clear, aquamarine waters off Monterey Bay.

UK battery firm says it has learned from others’ errors as it licenses Chinese tech

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:01:08 +0000

Volklec aims to start making batteries at part-government-funded site near Coventry before building its own factory

A startup has said it has learned from Britain’s faltering attempts to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, as it signed a deal to license technology from an established Chinese firm.

Coventry-based Volklec plans to manufacture batteries for cars, boats, construction vehicles and aircraft using technology from China’s Far East Battery (FEB), a maker of batteries mainly for electric bikes.

Wildfire debris washes up on LA beaches after major rainstorm

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:57:42 +0000

Beaches in southern California littered with timber, twisted metals, charred silt and urban runoff from Palisades fire

Los Angeles county beaches are contending with the aftermath of recent wildfires and winter storms as debris from the Palisades fire and urban runoff are carried to the shoreline.

Environment nudges birds to fast, or slow, life lane

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:23:52 +0000

A study shows birds worldwide make strategic decisions about how they live based on their environmental conditions. Some live fast, die young, and leave as many chicks as possible. Others live long and prosper by not breeding much.