Breaking Waves: Ocean News

2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:21:20 +0000

Noaa says last year was the warmest since records began in 1850 and Nasa concurs: ‘The long-term trends are very clear’

It was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s lands and oceans in 2024, US government scientists have confirmed, providing yet another measure of how the climate crisis is pushing humanity into temperatures we have previously never experienced.

The Guardian view on the LA fires: Donald Trump’s denial and division fuel climate inaction | Editorial

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:06:34 +0000

Events in California reveal how political obstruction is deepening a climate crisis that needs urgent action to prevent it becoming an irreversible disaster

World’s ugliest lawn winner says she leaves watering to Mother Nature

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:00:40 +0000

New Zealand garden takes first prize in global competition designed to promote water conservation

A sun-scorched patch of lawn near Christchurch, in New Zealand, has been crowned the ugliest lawn in the world.

Now in its second year, the World’s Ugliest Lawn competition rewards lawn owners for not watering their parched yellow grass and patchy flowerbeds.

Why have Britain’s energy costs soared and what does it mean for Labour?

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:17:43 +0000

Claims that power plants are gaming the system to charge huge sums to switch on in the UK’s cold weather

Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:56:46 +0000

Environmentalists condemn unauthorised releases as ‘reckless’ and ‘highly irresponsible’

For a brief moment this week, lynx have been roaming the Scottish Highlands once again. But this was not the way conservationists had hoped to end their 1,000-year absence.

To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:49:50 +0000

To solve the climate crisis, power must flow away from the billionaire class

UK’s first glyphosate-resistant weed found on Kent farm

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:37:39 +0000

Scientist says case is warning for farmers to reduce reliance on controversial and common herbicide

Scientists have identified a glyphosate-resistant weed on a farm in the UK for the first time, raising concerns about the controversial herbicide.

Coordinated effort needed to stop whales getting tangled in ropes and nets, scientists say – video

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:00:43 +0000

At least 45 whales were entangled by fishing ropes and line on the east coast in 2024. 'There’s a lot of times when we’ll get out to an entanglement where we just think, this animal should just probably be put to sleep,' says Sea World’s head of marine sciences, Wayne Phillips.

The constant drag of rope and floats slowly causes a whale to succumb to exhaustion. 'It’s probably the worst way of dying for any marine … animal,' marine scientist Olaf Meynecke, says. 'It takes weeks to several months until they actually die'

Giant pink slug makes a comeback on extinct volcano in NSW national park

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:00:39 +0000

Exclusive: The kaputar slug, which can grow longer than a human hand, was almost wiped out in the black summer bushfires of 2019-20

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A giant, fluorescent pink slug’s comeback on Mount Kaputar has been mapped by eager citizen scientists.

‘The worst way of dying’: scientists urge coordinated effort to stop whales getting tangled

admin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:00:38 +0000

Experts recorded 45 entanglements off Australia’s east coast in 2024 – but believe that’s ‘the tip of the iceberg’