Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Sudanese farm grows connection in Minnesota amid conflict at home

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:02 +0000

Volunteers come to share stories and labor. They leave with vegetables, war news and a shared sense of identity

On a recent Sunday, instructions in Arabic and English filled the air on a quiet street in New Hope, Minnesota. Every weekend, a group of Sudanese American professionals and students come to the half-acre space nestled near a distribution warehouse about 20 minutes north of Minneapolis. Their goal: to farm, and to do it together.

Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:00:01 +0000

Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight

A growing body of scientific evidence shows that microplastics are accumulating in critical human organs, including the brain, leading researchers to call for more urgent actions to rein in plastic pollution.

Studies have detected tiny shards and specks of plastics in human lungs, placentas, reproductive organs, livers, kidneys, knee and elbow joints, blood vessels and bone marrow.

Group of Republican attorneys general blocking climate laws funded by oil firms and dark money

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:00:08 +0000

Association has received millions from Koch Industries, fossil fuel lobby and fund linked to billionaire Leonard Leo

A powerful group that boasts 28 Republican attorney generals, including many who have sided with oil and gas firms to block states seeking compensation for weather disasters caused by climate change, has raked in millions of dollars from fossil fuel giants and a dark money fund tied to Federalist Society co-chair, Leonard Leo.

Privatised water firms are imperilling our health and poisoning our rivers. Act now: flood the streets with rage | Feargal Sharkey

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:00:06 +0000

It is time to say this privatisation zealotry has been a disaster. March with us and let ministers know – enough is enough

You’ve been lied to, you’ve been misled, you’ve been extorted, you’ve been cheated, and you’ve been abused. For the last 35 years, you have been subject to nothing more than possibly the greatest organised ripoff perpetrated on the British people, and you have had little in return apart from greed, profiteering, financial engineering, political failure and regulatory incompetency. You’ve been had.

The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win | George Monbiot

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:00:03 +0000

These new proteins could be our best hope of averting catastrophe. But governments are trying to have them banned

Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:00:49 +0000

Conservationists say the number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’

Sweden has issued licences to kill 20% of its brown bear population in the country’s annual bear hunt, which begins today, despite concerns from conservationists.

Huge NT solar farm backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes gets environmental approval

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:07:18 +0000

Go-ahead given for first stage of $30bn SunCable project, which minister says will be ‘transformational’ for Northern Territory

Court approves shooting brumbies from helicopters after challenge by Snowy Mountains group

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:19:53 +0000

Pro-brumby group had filed legal action against the NSW environment minister in a bid to stop the aerial culling

Badger cull may have increased bovine TB risk in neighbouring herds – study

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:01:44 +0000

England’s controversial eradication scheme may have caused higher rates of disease in surrounding areas, research shows

England’s controversial badger cull may have increased the risk of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) among herds in neighbouring areas, according to new research.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that although badger culling reduced incidences of tuberculosis in the areas where it took place, in neighbouring areas the risk of the disease in cattle increased by almost a third.

Climate crisis threatens medical blood supply in US amid extreme weather

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:41:29 +0000

Turnout at blood drives affected as summers get hotter and extreme weather causes cancellations, Red Cross warns

The climate crisis is threatening the medical blood supply in the US, with this summer’s record heat contributing to an emergency blood shortage, the American Red Cross has warned.