Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Australia news live: RBA governor to face questions about rates cut; disease deaths linked to Queensland floods

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:07:29 +0000

Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock to appear at parliamentary committee hearing. Follow today’s news headlines live

Reserve Bank to face parliamentary questioning today

The Reserve Bank governor will shed new light on her board’s decision to cut interest rates for the first time in more than four years when she faces a parliamentary grilling today.

It’s a hot topic and I think people are hungry for reform. Debit is the new cash and should be treated the same.

The EPA weighed two LA beachfront sites for toxic waste sorting. These ‘hippies and hicks’ revolted

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:37:57 +0000

Residents in Topanga Canyon – an area of Indigenous heritage and artists – mobilized against the state’s decision to bring in hazardous materials after wildfires

Worm-like creature with ‘dark secret’ wins New Zealand bug of the year

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:01:15 +0000

Velvet worms have rows of pudgy legs, skin speckled like a galaxy and dissolve their prey with sticky goo

An ancient gummy-looking worm-like creature with a vicious hunting method that involves projecting sticky goo from its head has been crowned New Zealand’s bug of the year.

Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:11 +0000

The condition of the state’s system was already precarious when the US president ordered billions of gallons be let out

Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:51 +0000

Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech

A fossil fuel company’s $300m lawsuit against Greenpeace opens in rural North Dakota on Monday, in a case that has been widely condemned by constitutional rights experts as baseless, bad faith litigation that threatens free speech.

Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth almost $70bn, accuses Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl).

‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:00:33 +0000

In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows

Billy Dasein was born on Rutland Street, Grimsby, in the front room of the house where he still lives. His father was a fitter, and his mother a housewife who also worked in the Tickler’s jam factory. He left school at 16 and wound up working at Courtauld’s synthetic textiles factory.

Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says

admin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:33 +0000

Greenpeace argues European-backed projects hamper countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies

European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.

Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europe’s quest to diversify its energy supply.

Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration

admin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:04:43 +0000

Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.

Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.

Four seals die on Norfolk coast after contracting bird flu

admin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:37:17 +0000

Experts raise fears for England’s largest colony at Blakeney Point as they conduct tests to identify source of infection

Experts have raised fears for the seals at England’s largest colony after four were found to have died after having been infected with bird flu.

Government scientists are investigating to find out whether the seals died after scavenging from the corpses of infected birds.

Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects

admin — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:36:12 +0000

Activists warn new designation for projects such as pipelines threatens US wetlands and waters

Environmentalists were outraged on Wednesday after the Trump administration moved to fast-track fossil fuel projects through the permitting process, with activists describing it as an attempt to sidestep environmental laws that could harm waterways and wetlands.