Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Tenants demand protections as LA fires exacerbate housing crisis: ‘Huge source of stress’

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:05 +0000

Renters are not only facing an escalation in rent prices but also pressure to evict apartments from landlords

Wendy López, a single mother of three from Guatemala, received an eviction order the day before wildfires destroyed Pacific Palisades, where she worked as a caregiver for people with disabilities.

Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:40:12 +0000

Mowi to give fishers £36 per fish after loss from farm in what campaigners say is a ‘disaster for wild salmon’

The global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast in what campaigners said was a “disaster for wild salmon”.

The world’s largest farmed salmon producer is offering a reward of 500 kroner (£36) per salmon caught after it said a quarter of its 105,000 salmon population escaped from a cage in Troms, north-west Norway.

Rangers corral feral pigs thought to have been released in Cairngorms

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:03:53 +0000

Animals suspected of being illegally left in ‘extremely harsh’ environment near where lynx were found last month

A herd of feral pigs believed to have been illegally released in the Cairngorms have been successfully corralled by estate workers who are now attempting to trap them.

The animals were first spotted near the Uath Lochans area, close to the village of Inch and only 5 miles from where four lynx were illegally released last month.

Microplastics can block blood vessels in mice brains, researchers find

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:55 +0000

Scientists observe decreased motor function in rodents exposed to microplastics

Microplastics can move through mice brains and block blood vessels, essentially mimicking blood clots that could potentially be fatal or otherwise disrupt brain function.

EV drivers spend extra £85m on VAT when using public chargers

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:00:12 +0000

Industry says ‘pavement tax’ due to disparity in VAT rates is holding back transition away from fossil fuels

Electric vehicle drivers will spend an extra £85m on UK tax when using public car chargers this year because of a disparity in VAT rates that the industry has said is holding back the transition away from fossil fuels.

Shot, poisoned and beaten to death: why leopard killings are soaring in Pakistan

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:00:12 +0000

A wave of incidents threatens the survival of the species in the country, say conservationists

Inside the Pakistan Museum of Natural History, in Islamabad, two taxidermists work on a leopard skin. They scrape away at the remaining flesh and sprinkle the underside with boric acid powder. It’s difficult to look away from the two holes where the leopard’s eyes should be.

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:00:09 +0000

If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?

This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core programme now appears to be the same as Donald Trump’s: dismantling the administrative state. There’s less theatre, but the results could prove harder to contest. Absurd? Consider the evidence.

Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws, claiming paper ones ‘explode’

admin — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:47:54 +0000

Order rolls back Biden policy to phase out federal purchases of single-use plastic as Trump calls it a ‘ridiculous situation’

All the executive orders Trump has signed so far

On Monday, Donald Trump took aim at a “ridiculous situation” that directly affects his daily life: paper straws.

Drax is the subsidy show that goes on and on | Nils Pratley

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:33:30 +0000

Government cranks handle again for group owning Yorkshire power plant because cheaper generating capacity not in place

Farmers ‘very worried’ as US pesticide firms push to bar cancer diagnoses lawsuits

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:00:53 +0000

Pesticide-backed proposed law that opponents call ‘Cancer Gag Act’ pits Iowa farm groups against each other

Pesticide company efforts to push through laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.

Laws have been introduced in at least eight states so far and drafts are circulating in more than 20 states, backed by a deluge of advertising supporting the measures.