Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Pesticide industry ‘immunity shield’ stripped from US appropriations bill

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:50:26 +0000

Democrats and ‘make America healthy again’ movement pushed back on the rider in a funding bill led by Bayer

Kent water failure was foreseen and could have been stopped, regulator says

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:48:19 +0000

Problem at water treatment centre left 24,000 Tunbridge Wells homes without drinking water for two weeks

A failure at a water treatment centre that left tens of thousands of Kent households without water was foreseen weeks before it happened and could have been stopped, the regulator has said.

Twenty-four thousand homes in the Tunbridge Wells area were without drinking water for two weeks from 30 November last year due to a failure at the Pembury water treatment centre.

Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:00:13 +0000

‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say

We can safely experiment on reflecting sunlight away from Earth. Here’s how | Dakota Gruener and Daniele Visioni

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:12 +0000

Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment

Nature boys and girls – here’s your chance to get published in the Guardian

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:04:33 +0000

Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their winter encounters with nature

Once again, the Young Country Diary series is open for submissions! Every three months we ask you to send us an article written by a child aged 8-14.

The article needs to be about a recent encounter they’ve had with nature – whether it’s a whether it’s a winter flower, something lurking in a pond or a fascinating bug.

Violence, death and stolen land: people need to know the true cost of an avocado | Claudia Ignacio Álvarez

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:00:30 +0000

Behind the west’s huge appetite for the fruit lies the dark reality of environmental destruction and Indigenous exploitation in Mexico

I grew up in San Andrés Tziróndaro, a Purépecha community on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro in the Mexican state of Michoacán. My childhood was shaped by water, forests and music. The lake fed us. The forest protected us. In the afternoons, people gathered in the local square while bands passed through playing pirekua, our traditional music.

That way of life is now under threat as our land is extracted for profit.

‘Mad fishing’: the super-size fleet of squid catchers plundering the high seas

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:00:29 +0000

Every year a Chinese-dominated flotilla big enough to be seen from space pillages the rich marine life on Mile 201, a largely ungoverned part of the South Atlantic off Argentina

Marine protected areas as living labs? Lessons learned & future perspectives

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 06 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00175-w

Trump officials sue California cities over laws to restrict fossil fuels

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:35:07 +0000

Suit against San Francisco-area cities Petaluma and Morgan Hill latest attack on policies that seek to rein in oil and gas

The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday, seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.

UK car sales top 2m in 2025 as Chinese brands boom

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:01:22 +0000

Electric car sales rose by nearly a quarter to a record 473,000, or 23.4% of the overall market, says SMMT

A rise in the popularity of Chinese brands pushed total car sales in the UK above the 2m mark last year for the first time since 2019, figures reveal.

Chinese companies accounted for 9.7% of the 2m new car registrations in the UK in 2025, or 196,000 vehicles, according to preliminary figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group. That was nearly double the 4.9% market share achieved by the country’s carmakers in 2024.