Breaking Waves: Ocean News

China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years

admin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:00:06 +0000

IEA says faster clean energy rollout being led by solar power in China with country set to boast half of world’s renewables by 2030

China is expected to account for almost 60% of all renewable energy capacity installed worldwide between now and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.

The IEA’s highly influential renewable energy report found that over the next six years renewable energy projects will roll out at three times the pace of the previous six years, led by the clean energy programmes of China and India.

‘A huge loss’: is it the end for the ship that helped us understand life on Earth?

admin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:00:05 +0000

The Joides Resolution has contributed to our understanding of climate crisis, the origin of life, earthquakes and eruptions. But funding cuts mean it may have sailed its last expedition

Teacher Hannah Willow crowned as Glasgow’s first tree-hugging champion

admin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 04:00:05 +0000

Willow was event’s surprise victor, and is now strategising for the world championships in Finland

Hannah Willow had little doubt what she wanted. She wanted the glory of being crowned Glasgow’s first champion tree hugger. And she got it.

“I thought it was just a charity event,” Willow said, after her triumph in the inaugural event on Sunday. “When I was told it was a competition my inner child took a somersault; I didn’t realise that until just before it started.

Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:01:04 +0000

Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month

The government’s official climate watchdog has appointed the head of the energy industry’s trade association to lead its work helping to drive the UK’s emissions to net zero by 2050.

Emma Pinchbeck, the head of Energy UK, will take up the role of chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) from early next month after four years at the helm of the trade association.

Klamath River dam removal: before and after images show dramatic change

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:45:53 +0000

Dam removal concluded a decades long fight on 2 October, which also saw Chinook salmon return to the waters

With California’s Klamath Dam removal project finally completed, new before and after photos show the dramatic differences along the river with and without the dams. The photos were taken by Swiftwater Films, a documentary company chronicling the dam removal project – a two decade long fight that concluded 2 October.

Ramos-Horta says $74bn Timor Sea gas project could begin within months if Australia signs treaty

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:45:40 +0000

Timor-Leste president’s trip comes amid mounting pressure for Labor to finalise an agreement

US south-east reels from ‘unspeakable tragedy’ of Helene as new storm looms

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:11:33 +0000

An entire family was killed less than a month before wedding day as Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida

As the country turns its attention to Hurricane Milton, which is expected to bring life-threatening conditions to parts of Florida after it makes landfall later this week, communities in much of the south-east US are still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene almost two weeks ago.

Double punch of hurricanes could become common due to climate crisis

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:00:52 +0000

As Floridians prepare to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, debris from Helene still litter swaths of the state

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene lashed the Florida coastline, an even more powerful hurricane is hurtling toward the state.

It’s the kind of double hit becoming more common as the climate crisis persists, further complicating hurricane preparation, experts say.

Oregon county sues major gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:00:51 +0000

Complaint against NW Natural, the state’s biggest provider, marks first time a utility faces climate deception charges

Oregon’s most populous county has sued the state’s biggest gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt, marking the first time a utility has faced charges of climate deception.

How did Hurricane Milton reach category 5 strength so quickly and when will it make landfall?

admin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:59:53 +0000

Milton is the third fastest-intensifying storm on record in the Atlantic, as experts warn the climate crisis is fueling more powerful storms

The speed with which recent hurricanes have been intensifying in strength is alarming climate experts, officials and residents facing these huge storms. More than a million people have been told to evacuate as Florida braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton this week on the state’s west coast.