Breaking Waves: Ocean News

These parrots came to Los Angeles as pets – then went wild. Now scientists are unlocking their mysteries

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:03:37 +0000

Once escapees from the pet trade, Los Angeles’s feral parrots have become a vibrant part of city life, and could even aid conservation in their native homelands

A morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a scene that evoked a tropical island rather than a bustling city in north-east Los Angeles county.

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:32:58 +0000

Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste

Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said.

Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”.

Plastic paradise: on the frontlines of the fight to clean up pollution in Bali – in pictures

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:00:05 +0000

In January the island’s beaches were inundated with waves of plastic pollution, a phenomenon that has been getting worse by the year. Photographer and film-maker Sean Gallagher travelled to Bali to document the increasing tide of rubbish washing up on beaches and riverbanks, and the people facing the monumental challenge of cleaning up. His portraits are on show now as part of the 2025 Head On photo festival at Bondi Beach promenade until 30 November

Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:00:10 +0000

Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry

Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil’s minister for Indigenous peoples has said.

‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:00:02 +0000

A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat

Just past a scrum of dog walkers, about 40 people are urgently combing through the sand on hands and knees. Their task is to try to remove millions of peppercorn-sized black plastic biobeads from where they have settled in the sand. Beyond them, a seal carcass grins menacingly, teeth protruding from its rotting skull.

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls, court told

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:00:04 +0000

Ford denies having created ‘defeat devices’ in legal action on behalf of 1.6 million owners against five carmakers

About a million Ford diesel cars were sold in the UK with serious defects in components supposed to curb toxic exhaust emissions, the high court has been told.

The highly polluting vehicles were produced and sold between 2016 and 2018 after Ford’s engineers became aware of the issues, and many were never formally recalled or fixed, lawyers said.

Learning to handle some of the world's most venomous snakes – video

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:44:58 +0000

With a reported boom in people becoming snake handlers, Guardian Australia's Joe Hinchcliffe attended a venomous snake handling course in Queensland to investigate what's involved in training to wrangle some of the world's deadliest snakes. Christina Zdenek and Chris Hay, the herpetologist pair running the course, say they've observed a growth in their industry: '[The] number of snake catchers has exploded in Australia, and that's in every Australian state,' says Chris. 'And every year we hear about this increase in snake numbers.

The Guardian view on Cop30: someone has to pay for the end of the oil and gas age | Editorial

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:30:47 +0000

The fossil-fuel era is drawing to a close, but at a pace far too slow for the planet’s good or a fair transition to a clean energy future

Scrapping green subsidies is short-termist sabotage – and as usual the consumer will pay | Camilla Born

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:53:35 +0000

Weaning ourselves off gas is the only way to reduce energy bills long term. Cutting support for this is exactly the ‘sticking-plaster politics’ Labour promised to end

Protesters blockade Cop30 summit over plight of Indigenous peoples

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:23:20 +0000

Munduruku people demand to speak to Brazil’s president, saying they are never listened to

Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil

Protesters blockaded the main entrance to the Cop30 climate conference for several hours early on Friday morning, demanding to speak to Brazil’s president about the plight of the country’s Indigenous peoples.