Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Total collapse of vital Atlantic currents unlikely this century, study finds

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:00:11 +0000

Climate scientists caution, however, that even weakened currents would cause profound harm to humanity

Vital Atlantic Ocean currents are unlikely to completely collapse this century, according to a study, but scientists say a severe weakening remains probable and would still have disastrous impacts on billions of people.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a system of currents that plays a crucial role in the global climate. The climate crisis is weakening the complex system, but determining if and when it will collapse is difficult.

What I have learned in my filthy, bloody, sisyphean quest to tame my garden | Adrian Chiles

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:29:36 +0000

It’s chaos as small jobs become big jobs, tools disappear and distractions lead to furious frustration. Then you spot spring’s first flower ...

There were never any climate havens: floods in the midwest, hurricanes in Appalachia

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

BP to ramp up oil and gas output in major shift away from green goals

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

Fossil fuel firm will cut more than $5bn from low-carbon investment plan in ‘fundamental reset’

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BP is dropping green goals, ramping up oil and gas production and slashing spending on low-carbon energy as part of a fundamental reset of the troubled company.

‘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.