Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Atlanta issues warnings after chemical plant fire with smoke visible miles away

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:11:29 +0000

Interstate highway shut down in both directions in the area, as residents urged to evacuate or shelter in place

Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent a massive tower of dark smoke into the air that could be seen from miles away.

Feud erupts between Florida officials over proposed trash incineration plant

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:00:02 +0000

Lawmakers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties at odds regarding using former airport site to build ‘toxic’ facility

Residents of two south Florida counties are feuding over the proposed construction of a huge trash incineration plant that environmentalists say will subject thousands of people to toxic fumes and a risk of polluted drinking water.

EPA will withdraw approval of Chevron plastic-based fuels likely to cause cancer

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:11 +0000

The decision comes after a ProPublica and Guardian investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a huge cancer risk

The deep history of British coal – from the Romans to the Ratcliffe shutdown

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:58:27 +0000

With the last coal-fired plant closing on Monday, we chart the rise and fall of the once-indispensable fuel that powered modern Britain

End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

Britain’s transition to a low-carbon future has reached a milestone with the closure of its last remaining coal-fired power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire.

Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:00:05 +0000

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report

More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”.

A review of marine genetic resource valuations

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 30 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s44183-024-00081-7

A review of marine genetic resource valuations

Environmental law reform needed to manage trade of Australia’s threatened marine species

admin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 30 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s44183-024-00085-3

End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

admin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:01:45 +0000

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good

A deep history of British coal – from the Romans to the Ratcliffe shutdown

Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

admin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:00:38 +0000

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

“Kids these days are such snowflakes! So flaccid and self-involved, so doomy and anxious. If it’s not the drugs, it’s the screen time, right? I mean, what’s their problem?”

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

admin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:28:53 +0000

Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits

Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of the highest mountains in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta valley.