Breaking Waves: Ocean News

UK farmers’ incomes stagnant since the 1970s, report finds

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:00:03 +0000

Exclusive: Research shows drop in produce prices as households consume more imported and ultra-processed food

Farmers’ incomes have remained stagnant since the 1970s despite improvements in productivity and a fall in the workforce, research has found.

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:03 +0000

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world

Has it ever struck you as interesting the amount of dinosaur products that are marketed to boys and unicorn products to girls?

Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:00:01 +0000

From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis

One of the most striking things that will be on display at an exhibition in Norfolk this weekend is an oak chair. Ordinary enough, except that it is elevated high in the air. Why? Because this is where it will need to be in 2100, given rising sea levels in the Netherlands, where it was made by the artist Boris Maas.

Rio Tinto’s solar power and battery purchase for Gladstone aluminium operations praised as ‘right direction’

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:22:27 +0000

Company says new solar agreements will now mean 80% of Boyne smelter’s energy needs are covered by renewable sources

Baby wombat-snatching US influencer at risk of losing Australian visa

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 05:11:01 +0000

Video footage, described as ‘callous’ and ‘pretty dreadful’, shows Sam Jones grabbing the joey from its mother at night

A US hunting influencer who shared video of herself snatching a baby wombat away from its mother is being investigated for a potential breach of her Australian visa.

The footage, with scenes described as “callous” by the RSPCA and “pretty dreadful” by the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, showed the Montana-based influencer Sam Jones grabbing the wombat joey at night as it was walking with its mother.

Atmospheric river to wallop California as study finds storms getting worse

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:13:19 +0000

Thunderstorms and high winds forecast for San Francisco Bay while southern California under flood watch

A powerful atmospheric river storm was set to wallop California on Wednesday evening, drenching large swaths of the state with rain and bringing several feet of snow to the mountains – the latest in a wave of intense storms that new research shows are getting worse.

Dead and dying Port Pirie birds and bats exposed to lead at 3,000 times acceptable levels

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:00:45 +0000

South Australia’s EPA did not open a formal investigation into the source of the lead poisoning, despite referral from the Department of Primary Industries

Trump officials to reconsider whether greenhouse gases cause harm amid climate rollbacks

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:55:22 +0000

Activists horrified as EPA reverses pollution laws and reviews landmark finding that gases harm public health

Donald Trump’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:00:48 +0000

Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay

Ingesting plastic is leaving seabird chicks with brain damage “akin to Alzheimer’s disease”, according to a new study – adding to growing evidence of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on marine wildlife.

Want to preserve biodiversity? Go big

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:38:52 +0000

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented landscapes, according to recent research. Ecologists agree that habitat loss and the fragmentation of forests reduces biodiversity in the remaining fragments. But ecologists don't agree whether it's better to focus on preserving many smaller, fragmented tracts of land or larger, continuous landscapes. The study comes to a clear conclusion.