Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/www.nationaltrust.org.uk/www.oserianwildlife.com/www.lloyds.com/the-market/tools-and-resources/research/exposure-management/emerging-risks/emerging-risk-reports/science/www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/v en Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/why-trump-s-water-releases-were-dangerous-california-s-levees <p>The condition of the state’s system was already precarious when the US president ordered billions of gallons be let out</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/why-trump-s-water-releases-were-dangerous-california-s-levees" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:11 +0000 admin 99009 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’ https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/fossil-fuel-firm-s-300m-trial-against-greenpeace-begin-weaponizing-judicial-system <p>Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech</p> <p>A fossil fuel company’s $300m lawsuit against Greenpeace opens in rural North Dakota on Monday, in a case that has been widely condemned by constitutional rights experts as baseless, bad faith litigation that threatens free speech.</p> <p>Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based oil and gas company worth almost $70bn, accuses Greenpeace of defamation and orchestrating criminal behavior by protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl).</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/fossil-fuel-firm-s-300m-trial-against-greenpeace-begin-weaponizing-judicial-system" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:51 +0000 admin 99008 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/our-community-deserves-beauty-one-man-s-mission-green-uk-tree-desert <p>In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows</p> <p>Billy Dasein was born on Rutland Street, Grimsby, in the front room of the house where he still lives. His father was a fitter, and his mother a housewife who also worked in the Tickler’s jam factory. He left school at 16 and wound up working at Courtauld’s synthetic textiles factory.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/our-community-deserves-beauty-one-man-s-mission-green-uk-tree-desert" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:00:33 +0000 admin 99007 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/europe-greenwashing-north-africa-s-renewable-energy-report-says <p>Greenpeace argues European-backed projects hamper countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies</p> <p>European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.</p> <p>Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europe’s quest to diversify its energy supply.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/europe-greenwashing-north-africa-s-renewable-energy-report-says" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:33 +0000 admin 99006 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/climate-advocacy-groups-file-two-lawsuits-against-trump-administration <p>Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles</p> <p>Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.</p> <p>Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/climate-advocacy-groups-file-two-lawsuits-against-trump-administration" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:04:43 +0000 admin 99003 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Four seals die on Norfolk coast after contracting bird flu https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/four-seals-die-norfolk-coast-after-contracting-bird-flu <p>Experts raise fears for England’s largest colony at Blakeney Point as they conduct tests to identify source of infection</p> <p>Experts have raised fears for the seals at England’s largest colony after four were found to have died after having been infected with bird flu.</p> <p>Government scientists are investigating to find out whether the seals died after scavenging from the corpses of infected birds.</p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/19/seals-die-norfolk-coast-blakeney-point-bird-flu">Continue reading...</a></p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:37:17 +0000 admin 99000 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Outrage as Trump cites ‘emergency’ to fast-track fossil fuel projects https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/outrage-trump-cites-emergency-fast-track-fossil-fuel-projects <p>Activists warn new designation for projects such as pipelines threatens US wetlands and waters</p> <p>Environmentalists were outraged on Wednesday after the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> moved to fast-track fossil fuel <a href="https://permits.ops.usace.army.mil/orm-public">projects</a> through the permitting process, with activists describing it as an attempt to sidestep environmental laws that could harm waterways and wetlands.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/outrage-trump-cites-emergency-fast-track-fossil-fuel-projects" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:36:12 +0000 admin 98998 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Sellafield nuclear site taken out of special measures for physical security https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/sellafield-nuclear-site-taken-out-special-measures-physical-security <p>Site in Cumbria can now return to routine inspections but concerns remain over cybersecurity</p> <p>The UK nuclear industry regulator has taken Sellafield, the world’s largest store of plutonium, out of special measures for its physical security – but said concerns remained over its cybersecurity.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/sellafield-nuclear-site-taken-out-special-measures-physical-security" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:06:25 +0000 admin 98999 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Melting glaciers caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century, study reveals https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/melting-glaciers-caused-almost-2cm-sea-level-rise-century-study-reveals <p>Decades-long research shows world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of ice between 2000 and 2023</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/05/people-do-not-want-to-believe-it-is-true-the-photographer-capturing-the-vanishing-of-glaciers">Melting glaciers</a> have caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century alone, a decades-long study has revealed.</p> <p>The research shows the world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of ice between 2000 and 2023, causing an 18mm (0.7in) rise in global sea levels.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/melting-glaciers-caused-almost-2cm-sea-level-rise-century-study-reveals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:24:38 +0000 admin 98997 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org We can farm more seafood while minimizing its impact on biodiversity https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/we-can-farm-more-seafood-while-minimizing-its-impact-biodiversity <p>Humanity can farm more food from the seas to help feed the planet while shrinking mariculture's negative impacts on biodiversity, according to new research.</p> Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:12:33 +0000 admin 99004 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org