Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Alarming’ increase in levels of forever chemical TFA found in European wines

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:35:50 +0000

Wines produced after 2010 showed steep rise in contamination of trifluoroacetic acid, analysis finds

Levels of a little-known forever chemical known as TFA in European wines have risen “alarmingly” in recent decades, according to analysis, prompting fears that contamination will breach a planetary boundary.

Election 2025: will the Albo party win it? The polls are never wrong! | First Dog on the Moon

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:47:51 +0000

Take that Antony Greem

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Tracing the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history – video

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:25:23 +0000

In early 2023, the planet's worst coral bleaching event began. More than two years later, 80% of the planet's reefs have been affected by successive marine heatwaves hitting ecosystems from the Great Barrier Reef to the Mesoamerican Reef

Sanctioned Russian and Belarusian wood smuggled into UK, study suggests

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:00:10 +0000

‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin

Nearly half of birch wood certified by leading sustainability schemes is misidentified and does not come from the labelled country of origin, according to new testing. The analysis raises fears that large quantities of sanctioned wood from Russia and Belarus are still illegally entering Britain.

Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:00:09 +0000

Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictators

Which former British prime minister described the climate emergency as “a clock ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engines … quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2”?

More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:10 +0000

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says

The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs, scientists have warned.

Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023, the latest data from the US government’s Coral Reef Watch shows.

‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:08 +0000

Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

Last year in early summer, Alex Glasgow could be seen hauling up a long string of orangey-black seaweed on to the barge of his water farm, located off the west coast of Scotland near Skye. Growing on the farm was what Glasgow described as “perhaps the quickest-growing biomass on the planet”: seaweed.

Miniature horses race in New Zealand’s big wilderness – in pictures

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:05:30 +0000

Dozens of miniature horses and their human running mates have taken part in the Great Northern Gallop, an adventure race through dense forests and across rugged beaches in New Zealand’s Far North. Participants run or walk 100km over four days for the event, which raises money for the welfare of miniature horses

‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:48:58 +0000

Presenter believes decision was taken due to the technology’s link with net zero after he was told he risked accusations of political bias

The BBC presenter Evan Davis has been told he can no longer host a podcast about heat pumps due to the corporation’s concerns that discussing the technology risks “treading on areas of public controversy”.

Al Gore draws parallels between Trump 2.0 and early Nazi Germany in speech

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:56:32 +0000

Former VP said the administration was creating its ‘own preferred reality’ and slammed it for green energy U-turn

Al Gore said there were “important lessons” to be learned from similarities between the early rise of Nazi Germany and the recent actions of the Trump administration, in scathing comments made Monday during remarks about climate change.