Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Privatised water firms are imperiling our health and poisoning our rivers. Act now: flood the streets with rage | Feargal Sharkey

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:00:06 +0000

It is time to say this privatisation zealotry has been a disaster. March with us and let ministers know – enough is enough

You’ve been lied to, you’ve been misled, you’ve being extorted, you’ve been cheated, and you’ve been abused. For the last 35 years, you have been subject to nothing more than possibly the greatest organised ripoff perpetrated on the British people, and you have had little in return apart from greed, profiteering, financial engineering, political failure and regulatory incompetency. You’ve been had.

The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win | George Monbiot

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:00:03 +0000

These new proteins could be our best hope of averting catastrophe. But governments are trying to have them banned

Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:00:49 +0000

Conservationists say the number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’

Sweden has issued licences to kill 20% of its brown bear population in the country’s annual bear hunt, which begins today, despite concerns from conservationists.

Huge NT solar farm backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes gets environmental approval

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:07:18 +0000

Go-ahead given for first stage of $30bn SunCable project, which minister says will be ‘transformational’ for Northern Territory

Court approves shooting brumbies from helicopters after challenge by Snowy Mountains group

admin — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:19:53 +0000

Pro-brumby group had filed legal action against the NSW environment minister in a bid to stop the aerial culling

Badger cull may have increased bovine TB risk in neighbouring herds – study

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:01:44 +0000

England’s controversial eradication scheme may have caused higher rates of disease in surrounding areas, research shows

England’s controversial badger cull may have increased the risk of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) among herds in neighbouring areas, according to new research.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that although badger culling reduced incidences of tuberculosis in the areas where it took place, in neighbouring areas the risk of the disease in cattle increased by almost a third.

Climate crisis threatens medical blood supply in US amid extreme weather

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:41:29 +0000

Turnout at blood drives affected as summers get hotter and extreme weather causes cancellations, Red Cross warns

The climate crisis is threatening the medical blood supply in the US, with this summer’s record heat contributing to an emergency blood shortage, the American Red Cross has warned.

Climate crisis fuelled storm that sank yacht in Sicily, say experts

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:35 +0000

Record sea temperatures in the Mediterranean contributed to waterspout that hit Bayesian

Record temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea this summer contributed to the freak storm that sank a superyacht off the coast of Sicily, with similar extreme events expected to increase in frequency and intensity as the climate crisis tightens its grip, Italian scientists have said.

Environment Agency considering legal action after sewage spill at Devon beach

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:00:18 +0000

South West Water could face prosecution after sewer burst at nearby treatment plant

The Environment Agency is considering legal action against South West Water after the company spilled sewage into the sea at a Devon beach.

Swimmers were told to stay out of the sea at Exmouth beach after a sewer burst on private land on Thursday next to Maer Lane wastewater treatment works.

Australia could save thousands of bats a year with simple tweak to wind turbines, study says

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:00:31 +0000

Raising the wind speed at which turbines start spinning could prevent tens of thousands of bat deaths each year, researchers find