Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous | Tim Winton

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:42 +0000

As Ningaloo reef bleaches and an election looms, we must hold to account those who stand in the way of our safety – the small cohort profiting from fossil fuels, and the politicians who protect them

Late last spring, I was part of an expedition to Scott Reef, a magnificent coral atoll nearly 300 kilometres off the Kimberley coast. And while it was a privilege to be in such a remote and wonderful place, watching rare and endemic sea life drifting past, the moment I tipped from the boat in my mask and fins, I knew something was wrong.

Anthony Albanese under pressure on salmon farming from both conservationists and industry

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:42 +0000

The future of Tasmanian salmon farms has become a political issue centred on whether they can coexist with the endangered Maugean skate

Eight Labor ‘climate champions’ to get election help from party’s grassroots environment action group

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:40 +0000

Exclusive: Ged Kearney, Kate Thwaites, Josh Burns, Jerome Laxale, Sally Sitou, Alicia Payne, Josh Wilson and Renee Coffey will get extra door-knocking, phone banking and push ads

Mass firings hamstring federal land agencies and wildfire response

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:38 +0000

Concerns are mounting that depleting already thinned ranks will only hamper extreme weather response efforts

Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:00:40 +0000

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate.”

As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:02:28 +0000

Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades

Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the government’s green ambitions, as advice for the UK’s next carbon budget is published.

Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Hurricane-proof skyscrapers vulnerable to less powerful windstorms, study finds

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:37 +0000

Tall buildings fare poorly in derechos, say experts, raising questions over their resilience as climate crisis worsens

Skyscrapers built to withstand major hurricanes fare much more poorly in less powerful windstorms known as derechos, researchers have found, raising questions for cities worldwide over the resilience of tall buildings as the climate emergency worsens.

Rolling back on climate actions may spell rise in preventable illness – study

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:40:23 +0000

Net zero policies would result in fewer deaths saving UK billions, say researchers

Countries that weaken or stop their net zero and climate actions may be consigning their populations to decades of preventable illness.

Week in wildlife: slimy capybaras, mating frogs and a rescued monkey

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:10:26 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures

admin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:00:29 +0000

The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

All photographs courtesy of Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025