Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Hurricane Helene leaves thousands without clean water in its wake

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:19:37 +0000

Damage to sewage systems and pipes means widespread boil water notices and conservation orders could last weeks

Hurricane Helene left a path of devastation behind, with storm-ravaged areas struggling to access safe water for days because flooding damaged sewage systems, wastewater treatment plants and pipes that deliver drinking water to residents in the affected areas.

Sellafield ordered to pay nearly £400,000 over cybersecurity failings

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:18:38 +0000

Nuclear waste dump in Cumbria pleaded guilty to leaving data that could threaten national security exposed for four years, says regulator

Sellafield will have to pay almost £400,000 after it pleaded guilty to criminal charges over years of cybersecurity failings at Britain’s most hazardous nuclear site.

Trip on psychedelics, save the planet: the offbeat solution to the climate crisis

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:00:32 +0000

Proponents say using hallucinogens can spark ‘consciousness shifts’ to inspire climate-friendly behaviors

Thousands gathered for New York City’s annual Climate Week last week to promote climate solutions, from the phaseout of fossil-fuel subsidies to nuclear energy to corporate-led schemes like carbon credits. Others touted a more offbeat potential salve to the crisis: psychedelics.

US farms are forcing workers to buy inedible, expensive meals: ‘It makes you feel enslaved’

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:00:32 +0000

Employers hiring migrant workers through a federal program must provide food or cooking facilities. But those picking our fresh food have no access to adequate meals

On an August afternoon, Pablo stared down at a foam plate sloshing with flavorless pinto beans and a particularly bad version of huevos a la Mexicana. The simple, usually delicious scramble of eggs, tomatoes, onions and jalapeños is difficult to mess up. But if anyone can find a way to make it unpalatable, it’s the cook at his labor camp.

Cuddles and drama as live stream shows secret life of ‘ridiculously fluffy’ greater glider

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:00:31 +0000

Camera installed inside a tree hollow in NSW forest to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered possum

Something about the migrant labor camp spooked my mother. Then she learned its dark history

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:27 +0000

The Idaho camp where Nora Zavala Gallion harvested sugar beets in 1968 felt like a prison because it had been one – for Japanese Americans in the second world war

My mother, Nora Zavala Gallion, was 11 years old when she first set foot inside the farm labor camp in Caldwell, Idaho. It was 1968, and her family had traveled over 2,000 miles (3,218km) by car from Texas’s Rio Grande valley to harvest sugar beets as migrant laborers.

EPA’s drinking water limits for PFAS are under threat – and that’s nothing new

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 10:00:37 +0000

Though utilities’ mission is to provide clean water, their trade groups for decades have often fiercely opposed initiatives to improve quality

Floods are wreaking havoc around the world. Vienna might have found an answer | Gernot Wagner

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:00:33 +0000

The Austrian capital has been spared the worst of recent flooding. Its experience could be a lesson in how to tackle the climate crisis

Fire ant bait opponents face sting of the law as Queensland police called in

admin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 04:07:37 +0000

Tensions ramp up between authorities and property owners who don’t want chemical treatment spread on their land

San Francisco sees hottest day of 2024 as heatwave scorches US south-west

admin — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:16:45 +0000

Excessive heat warnings bring elevated wildfire risk, potential for power outages and rising death toll

San Francisco recorded its hottest day of the year on Tuesday, and Phoenix set a record for the hottest 1 October on record, as the National Weather Service predicted record-high fall temperatures across the south-western US.