Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Towns cut off by Queensland floods warned against panic-buying as premier vows ‘resilient’ rebuild

admin — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:44:46 +0000

David Crisafulli says infrastructure to be replaced after floods needs ‘greater ability’ to withstand natural disasters

I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:00:34 +0000

Sometimes a branch grows so low and bushy that it blocks access to my room. I diligently cut it back

Labour’s clean energy plan will not only cut emissions but lift hundreds of thousands out of fuel poverty | Ed Miliband

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:00:32 +0000

The party’s agenda is about energy security, lower bills, economic growth and good jobs

Ed Miliband is the Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero

During four years in opposition and in the seven months since this government came to office, we have been clear: smart climate policy means not only protecting future generations from the biggest existential threat we face, but fighting to make working people better off today, growing our economy and confronting the economic injustices we face.

Mexico authorities order factory cleanup after Guardian toxic waste investigation

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:00:27 +0000

Inquiry uncovered health problems in neighborhood near Monterrey-area plant that processes US hazardous waste

Mexican environmental regulators say they have discovered 30,000 tons of improperly stored material with “hazardous characteristics” in the yard of a Mexican plant that is recycling toxic waste shipped from the US.

Where the heart is: the artist memorialising homes lost in the LA fires – in pictures

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:00:26 +0000

On 10 January, as fires raged across Los Angeles, local portrait artist Asher Bingham made an offer via an Instagram reel: “ To anyone that has lost a home in the #LAfires I will draw [it] for free.” She had already drawn the house of a close friend that had burned down; by offering her services more widely, she hoped to help others grieve for what they’d lost. She wasn’t prepared for the response. So many people sent in photos – 1,300 and counting – that she had to recruit volunteers to keep up with demand. For Bingham, it’s all about the small details: wind chimes, potted plants.

Kew’s rescue mission: arborists head to Scotland after hundreds of trees and plants felled by Storm Éowyn

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:28 +0000

Scotland’s botanic gardens suffer ‘unimaginable’ loss of rare specimens

For more than a century, whenever winter came to Scotland, they stood tall against the wind and rain and snow. But last month, battered by Storm Éowyn, hundreds of rare and historic trees in the living collection of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were lost.

Western food was unhealthy and costly. So they turned back to bison and mushrooms

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:24 +0000

The Siċaŋġu Nation in South Dakota is building community and climate resilience through traditional foods

On a Wednesday summer evening on the Rosebud Reservation, members of the Siċaŋġu Nation arrange 12 tables to form a U in the parking lot of a South Dakota Boys & Girls Club. The tables at the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market are laden with homemade foods for sale: tortillas, cooked beans, pickles and fresh-squeezed lemonade.

Trump to reverse Biden’s plan to phase out plastic straws across US government

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:41:16 +0000

President said he will sign an executive order next week despite global plastics crisis

Donald Trump has said that he will reverse Joe Biden’s plan to phase out plastic straws across the US government, complaining that paper alternatives don’t work and that a move is needed to go “BACK TO PLASTIC!”

Save our cider: apple growers and producers call on government to protect traditional ‘native wine of England’

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:41:07 +0000

Nine in ten traditional orchards in England have been lost since the second world war. Farmers and cider makers are now fighting for their survival

They are a symbol of the bucolic English countryside and a staple of the West Country landscape, but since the second world war, 90% of traditional orchards have disappeared.

‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears

admin — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:00:17 +0000

Developing countries urge biggest polluters to act as Trump’s return to the White House heightens geopolitical turmoil

The vast majority of governments are likely to miss a looming deadline to file vital plans that will determine whether or not the world has a chance of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown.

Despite the urgency of the crisis, the UN is relatively relaxed at the prospect of the missed date. Officials are urging countries instead to take time to work harder on their targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions and divest from fossil fuels.