Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Student rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:09:11 +0000

Chinese national, 27, returned to Japan’s highest mountain days after first rescue to retrieve his phone

A university student has been rescued from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week – the second time during an attempt to retrieve his mobile phone.

Hello freedom fans! Ian the climate denialist potato is back – the REAL enemy is renewables! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:35:11 +0000

These days they call him Ian the renewable energy is expensive potato

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

The big issues Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton aren’t talking about this election

admin — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:00:36 +0000

From bad airline service to the once election-deciding future of the NBN, Labor and the Coalition have been notably silent on some key policy areas

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.”