Breaking Waves: Ocean News

K’gari at risk of being ‘destroyed’ by overtourism, world heritage advisory committee warns

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:00:35 +0000

Exclusive: The new Queensland government reversed Labor’s decision to set limits on visitor numbers

‘Engine of inequality’: delegates discuss AI’s global impact at Paris summit

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:57:53 +0000

Emmanuel Macron’s tech envoy warns attenders current trajectory of artificial intelligence is unsustainable

UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:45:12 +0000

Insurers blame ‘significant and consistent bad weather’ after year of 12 named storms

Insurers paid out a record £585m for weather-related damage to homes and possessions in Britain last year, after record-breaking rain and storms hit the country.

‘Most at risk on the planet’: Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea but can one island live forever online?

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

On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears

It was early July when the waters of the Beaufort Sea crept, then rushed, over the gravel spit of a remote Arctic island. For hours, the narrow strip of land, extending like the tail of a comma into the waters, gradually disappeared into the ocean.

Pre-election boost for Albanese as $13.7bn core of Future Made in Australia passes

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:57:04 +0000

Tax breaks for critical minerals processing and green hydrogen production were waved through the senate on Monday evening

UK halves subsidies for Drax and says it must use 100% sustainable wood

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:23:41 +0000

North Yorkshire power plant has been criticised for burning wood pellets sourced from US and Canadian forests

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The UK government has halved subsidies for the Drax power station and ordered it to use 100% sustainable wood after sustained criticism over its business model.

More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:00:09 +0000

The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats

More than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this January.

“I never heard [of] such large numbers of turtles stranded at any beaches of Tamil Nadu at least in the last three decades,” Kuppusamy Sivakumar, an ecology professor at Pondicherry University said.

Storm brings hail to Harden in NSW – video

admin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:53:38 +0000

Storm brings hail to Harden in NSW – video

GB Energy faces ‘challenging’ task to find CEO for Aberdeen HQ, sources say

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:00:04 +0000

Industry insiders say it will be ‘tricky’ to find suitable candidate who would agree to location and civil service pay

Britain’s state-owned energy company faces a “challenging” task to find a chief executive for its Aberdeen HQ when it begins recruiting this month, senior industry sources have said.

Great British Energy is poised to begin the hunt, but sources claim there are still no obvious frontrunners for the top job almost six months after the £8.3bn publicly owned clean energy company was formed.

Persimmons and pears: the farmers’ market program getting kids excited to try new foods

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Elementary schoolers in the San Francisco Bay Area are embarking on tasting journeys of fruits and vegetables