Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Cyclone Alfred evacuation centres 'not a solution for homelessness', NSW premier says – video

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:04:54 +0000

Chris Minns stresses that the New South Wales evacuation centres set up for people fleeing flooding will be closed once the immediate threat from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred is over. The premier says his government contributed $5bn for social housing in its last budget. 'Evacuation centres are not going to be long-term solutions for homelessness on the northern rivers,' he says. 'And I just want to be really transparent and clear … They can’t operate longer than they were intended to'

UK government vows to clean up Windermere after sewage criticism

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 22:30:03 +0000

Environment secretary points to measures to stop lake being ‘choked by unacceptable levels’ of pollution

The government has said it will “clean up Windermere” after criticism over the volume of sewage being pumped into England’s largest lake.

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, pledged “only rainwater” would enter the famous body of water in the Lake District, putting an end to the situation where it Windermere was being “choked by unacceptable levels of sewage pollution”.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred update: residents warned to head for high ground as flood waters rise

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:29:15 +0000

More than 230,000 still without power in south-east Queensland and northern NSW on Monday morning and flooding alerts issued

Ex-Cyclone Alfred live updates: Brisbane and NSW flooding; power outages; floods evacuation warnings – latest news

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:23:16 +0000

Follow today’s news live

Tree loss from hurricane leaves Asheville vulnerable to new climate shocks

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Damage to trees in western North Carolina from Hurricane Helene was ‘extraordinary and humbling’ but urban areas face particular problems

The city of Asheville and its surrounding areas have been left vulnerable to floods, fires and extreme heat after Hurricane Helene uprooted thousands of trees that provided shade and protection from storms.

Water, water everywhere: the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Alfred – in pictures

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 06:24:27 +0000

Millions of people in northern NSW and south-east Queensland are bunkering down for dangerous conditions including flash flooding, heavy rain and intense winds after the storm now downgraded to a tropical low crossed the coast

Almost 230,000 properties without power as ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred brings more dangerous rain

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:48:56 +0000

South-east Queensland and northern NSW face further heavy downpours and flash flooding

This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:00:27 +0000

In the Zuleta community in Ecuador, farming is about more than just sustenance: it is about cultivating a deep relationship with the land based on ancestral knowledge. In her travels in the region, Colombo-Ecuadorian photographer Yinna Higuera collaborates with rural women, who in exchange share their understanding of medicinal plants and give her leaves from their gardens.

US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:08:51 +0000

Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations

The Trump administration has withdrawn the US from a global agreement under which the developed nations most responsible for the climate crisis pledged to partly compensate developing countries for irreversible harms caused by global heating.

Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:00:17 +0000

Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont

The Donald Trump administration has formally agreed to drop a landmark environmental justice case in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” region, marking a blow to clean air advocates in the region and a win for the Japanese petrochemical giant at the centre of the litigation.