Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:06 +0000

A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives

Clear plastic cups and pitchers adorned the wooden table in Des Moines, Iowa. Invisible juice was poured and presented to Kanzi, who enthusiastically chose the fake filled cup, playing along with the man who had come to visit. In many ways, it was the quintessential scene of a children’s imaginary tea party. Only Kanzi, at 44 years old, was a bonobo.

A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:00:02 +0000

Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises

One ship, three deaths: the shocking truth behind working conditions on a Chinese fishing vessel

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:00:46 +0000

Damning testimony from the crew of one longline tuna-fishing boat has lifted the lid on the treatment of workers in the fleets supplying fish to the UK and EU

Abdul was the first to fall sick, in February 2025, four months into his first ever stint on a longline tuna fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean. Told he was “weak” and “overreacting” by other crew members, he forced himself to keep working, even when he could barely stand, his legs swollen and bruised.

Use of toxic Pfas in consumer goods must be urgently restricted, MPs say

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:00:46 +0000

Commons committee heard from residents of Yorkshire town with the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in UK

On 15 January, members of the House of Commons environmental audit committee (EAC) visited Bentham, the North Yorkshire town that has the highest levels of Pfas contamination in the UK.

US supreme court sides with Michigan in its fight to shut down ageing pipeline

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:00:45 +0000

The case is part of a messy legal dispute about a section of the Line 5 energy pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel

The supreme court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an ageing pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration restrictions on wind and solar projects

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:15:27 +0000

The injunction pauses policy giving senior Trump official direct sign-off on federal clean energy projects

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday struck down several Trump administration actions slowing down development of clean energy, including a requirement that all solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters be personally approved by the interior secretary, Doug Burgum.

Actorly Fauci becomes blind prophet for Oedipus the King reading in DC

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:28:10 +0000

Jesse Eisenberg and Chuck Schumer also star – could 2,500-year-old play teach US something about the climate crisis?

When Anthony Fauci put on a pair of sunglasses, the hall erupted in cheers and applause. “Ah, how terrible it is to know when, in the end, knowing gains you nothing,” Fauci said. “I knew this once, but must have somehow forgotten, or else I never would have come.”

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:00:31 +0000

NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds

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How Ireland’s war-driven fuel blockades revealed the true cost of Europe’s oil addiction

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:47:42 +0000

Donald Trump’s conflict with Iran could speed the EU’s green revolution – if panicking governments can hold their nerve on clean energy

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Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:00:22 +0000

Unwanted vessels left to decay release fibreglass shards into the water, harming marine life. Steve Green – with his trusty van Cecil – is determined to clean things up

Steve Green, a boat engineer from Cornwall, was pulled over by the police just before Christmas. He was driving a decrepit-looking VW campervan and towing an even more dilapidated yacht up to Truro. He hadn’t broken any laws, but he admits that Cecil the campervan, which runs on donated chip oil from local pubs and has a crane and a winch on the front, “wasn’t quite what VW intended”.