Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/index.php en New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/new-jersey-wildfire-forces-evacuations-and-reaches-closed-nuclear-power-plant <p>Stretch of major highway shut as 3,000 people moved to safety and homes left without power</p> <p>A fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate, closed a stretch of a main highway and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant.</p> <p>Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County had reached buildings on the campus of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, according to the local Lakewood Scoop newspaper.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/new-jersey-wildfire-forces-evacuations-and-reaches-closed-nuclear-power-plant" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:26:07 +0000 admin 99708 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Nearly half of Americans breathing in unsafe levels of air pollutants – report https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/nearly-half-americans-breathing-unsafe-levels-air-pollutants-report <p>American Lung Association’s study says almost 156 million people live in areas with unhealthy levels of soot or smog</p> <p>Almost half of Americans are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared with a year ago and likely to further increase in coming years thanks to the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental rollbacks.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/nearly-half-americans-breathing-unsafe-levels-air-pollutants-report" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:00:39 +0000 admin 99707 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/silent-majority-world-s-people-wants-stronger-climate-action-it-s-time-wake-mark-herts <p>About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/silent-majority-world-s-people-wants-stronger-climate-action-it-s-time-wake-mark-herts" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:00:38 +0000 admin 99709 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Alarming’ increase in levels of forever chemical TFA found in European wines https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/alarming-increase-levels-forever-chemical-tfa-found-european-wines <p>Wines produced after 2010 showed steep rise in contamination of trifluoroacetic acid, analysis finds</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/alarming-increase-levels-forever-chemical-tfa-found-european-wines" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:35:50 +0000 admin 99706 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Election 2025: will the Albo party win it? The polls are never wrong! | First Dog on the Moon https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/election-2025-will-albo-party-win-it-polls-are-never-wrong-first-dog-moon <p>Take that Antony Greem</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/-sp-first-dog-on-the-moon-subscribe-by-email">Sign up here to get an email</a> whenever First Dog cartoons are published</li> <li><a href="http://firstshoponthemoon.com/">Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop</a> if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints</li> </ul> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/23/election-2025-will-the-albo-party-win-it-the-polls-are-never-wrong">Continue reading...</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:47:51 +0000 admin 99704 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Tracing the worst coral bleaching event in recorded history – video https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/tracing-worst-coral-bleaching-event-recorded-history-video <p>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<strong> </strong>Reef</p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2025/apr/23/tracing-the-worst-coral-bleaching-event-in-recorded-history-video">Continue reading...</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:25:23 +0000 admin 99705 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Sanctioned Russian and Belarusian wood smuggled into UK, study suggests https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/sanctioned-russian-and-belarusian-wood-smuggled-uk-study-suggests <p>‘Chemical fingerprint’ shows 46% of wood samples certified as sustainable did not come from labelled country of origin</p> <p>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<strong> </strong>entering Britain.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/sanctioned-russian-and-belarusian-wood-smuggled-uk-study-suggests" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:00:10 +0000 admin 99702 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/nigel-farage-thinks-net-zero-new-brexit-starmer-can-prove-him-wrong-rafael-behr <p>Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictators</p> <p>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”?</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/nigel-farage-thinks-net-zero-new-brexit-starmer-can-prove-him-wrong-rafael-behr" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:00:09 +0000 admin 99703 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/more-80-world-s-reefs-hit-bleaching-after-worst-global-event-record <p>An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/more-80-world-s-reefs-hit-bleaching-after-worst-global-event-record" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:10 +0000 admin 99700 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/it-s-almost-vaseline-artists-including-antony-gormley-swap-paint-seaweed-ink-art-chall <p>Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation</p> <p>Last year in early summer, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/13/kelp-help-how-scotlands-seaweed-growers-are-aiming-to-revolutionise-what-we-buy">Alex Glasgow could be seen</a> 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.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/it-s-almost-vaseline-artists-including-antony-gormley-swap-paint-seaweed-ink-art-chall" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:08 +0000 admin 99701 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org