Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Three US states call on environmental agency to regulate PFAS air emissions

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:00:24 +0000

North Carolina, New Jersey and New Mexico petitioned regulators to classify some PFAS as hazardous air pollutants

Three US states are formally demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begin regulating PFAS “forever chemical” air emissions, as the toxic threat that the pollution poses to the environment and human health comes into sharper focus.

Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:23:31 +0000

Storm Boris has caused several deaths, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes across Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia

Europe floods – latest updates

The Stakes: how JD Vance's home town has won millions in climate investment that he calls a 'green scam'

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:23 +0000

Locals called it a ‘miracle’ when the steel plant in JD Vance’s home town got $500m for an upgrade. But Trump’s running mate calls shifting the US to cleaner energy a ‘green scam’

Hot queen conch seeks cool mates: Florida’s new ‘speed dating’ service to save endangered shellfish

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:22 +0000

Soaring sea temperatures have made the celebrated gastropod lethargic and infertile, so scientists are helping the threatened species to reproduce

Of the many novel initiatives dreamed up by scientists to protect threatened species from the ravages of record ocean temperatures, Florida’s new “speed dating for shellfish” programme might be about the most extraordinary.

Is pollution in England’s rivers really getting worse? There’s more good news than you might think | Michelle Jackson

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:21 +0000

River wildlife is on the up and there’s little evidence that storm overflows are being used more often. But protest is still vital

Did you know climate change made the entire Earth wobble for nine days! What? | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:34:29 +0000

Is there anything climate change cannot do?!

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How the west’s wellness industry is driving Ethiopia’s frankincense trees towards extinction

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:20 +0000

As rich westerners fuel demand for the ancient fragrance, a lucrative race for the resin is killing the trees but leaving little of the trade’s profit for those gathering it

In a corner of Covent Garden, well-heeled Londoners and tourists browse the range of frankincense products sold by a leading cosmetics brand while they drink a complimentary rose and berry tea. Amid the aromatic resin sheathed under glass, shoppers can buy “age-defying” serums, creams and essences, and tablets to strengthen brittle nails and hair.

‘Bulldoze your way through’: Anthony Albanese compared to Scott Morrison in climate trigger stoush

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:53:40 +0000

Sarah Hanson-Young says PM needs to negotiate with senators after he appeared to rule out adding a climate trigger to proposed environmental laws

Rare smelly penguin wins New Zealand bird of the year contest

admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:40:14 +0000

The hoiho, which means ‘noise shouter’, triumphed in a year free from the usual scandals surrounding the competition

One of the world’s rarest penguins has been crowned New Zealand’s bird of the year, in an unusually sedate year for the competition, free from the foreign interference and voting scandals of previous events.

The endangered yellow-eyed penguin, or hoiho, is the largest of New Zealand’s mainland penguin species and is distinctive for the pale yellow band of feathers linking the eyes.

Ditch £40m Loch Lomond resort plan if rejected in vote, Scottish Greens urge

admin — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 23:01:10 +0000

National park authority due to make decision on Monday over Flamingo Land development proposal

If Flamingo Land’s proposal to build on the shores of Loch Lomond is rejected in a vote on Monday, that decision should spell the end of the plan, the Scottish Greens have said.

The Yorkshire-based theme park owner is behind the Lomond Banks proposal, under which two hotels and more than 100 self-catering lodges would be built along with a water park and other amenities.