Breaking Waves: Ocean News

'Give these blokes the clothes off my back': Taree man films SES perform flood rescue – video

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:16:44 +0000

Taree resident Phill Smith captured the moment a woman was rescued from flood waters, declaring the crew involved in the rescue 'definitely deserve an Australia Day just for themselves'. Unprecedented flooding has hit the New South Wales mid-north coast, with further rain predicted to come

NSW floods: one dead and ‘grave fears’ held for three missing people as crisis worsens

How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 05:00:49 +0000

Introduced from South America, mathenge was intended to halt desertification, but now three-quarters of the country is at risk of invasion by the invasive tree

For his entire life, John Lmakato has lived in Lerata, a village nestled at the foot of Mount Ololokwe in northern Kenya’s Samburu county. “This used to be a treeless land. Grass covered every inch of the rangelands, and livestock roamed freely,” he says.

NSW floods: one dead and ‘grave fears’ held for three missing people as crisis worsens

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 03:28:25 +0000

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say ‘heavy, intense rainfall’ has spread north bringing life-threatening risk

We bear the brunt of the climate crisis. A Pacific Cop could help shape the global response | Surangel Whipps Jr

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 01:44:16 +0000

Australia should also make moves to address the climate impact of its fossil fuel production and exports

Watching from the western Pacific, we saw many describe Australia’s recent election as a decisive moment for climate and energy policy. If that was the case, the people of Australia have spoken loud and clear.

Plants produce more nectar when they ‘hear’ bees buzzing, scientists find

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:00:30 +0000

Researchers suggest buzzing noises could be used as environmentally friendly way to enhance crop pollination

Plants can “hear” bees buzzing and serve up more nectar when they are nearby, scientists have found.

The research suggests that plants are a more active partner than previously thought in their symbiotic relationship with pollinators. The behaviour could be a survival strategy that favours giving nectar and sugar to bees over so-called nectar robbers that do not offer plants any reproductive benefits.

Victoria, UK’s oldest polar bear, put down after health problems

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:49:33 +0000

Twenty-eight-year-old bear, who had been at Highland Wildlife Park since 2015, is euthanised on vets’ advice

The UK’s oldest polar bear, and the first in the country to give birth to a cub in 25 years, has been put down because of age-related health problems.

Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:30:25 +0000

Over breakfast at Tom’s Restaurant, right below the historic Giss lab, James Hansen calls Doge’s decision a ‘big mistake’

Perched above the New York City diner made famous by the TV show Seinfeld, Tom’s Restaurant, a small research laboratory became, improbably, crucial to humanity’s understanding of our changing climate and of the universe itself.

Now, it is being shut down by Donald Trump’s administration.

Blow to UK’s 2030 clean energy targets as SSE cuts spending on renewables

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 10:58:04 +0000

Developer shrinks five-year investment plans by £3bn blaming policy and planning delays

One of the UK’s biggest energy developers will cut its planned spending on new renewables projects in a blow to the government’s 2030 clean power targets.

SSE warned that it would be unlikely to meet its own renewable energy goals for the end of the decade after shrinking its five-year spending plans by £3bn to £17.5bn.

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 09:23:15 +0000

Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping

Wild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire landowner was wrong to ban it on his land.

Dartmoor was – until the legal action – the only place in England where wild camping without the permission of the landowner was enshrined in law. In Scotland, people have enjoyed this right since 2003.

Demand for copper to dramatically outstrip supply within decade

admin — Wed, 21 May 2025 05:00:19 +0000

International Energy Agency says it is ‘time to sound alarm’ over future shortages of metal needed for low-carbon transition

Demand for copper, needed for the transition to a low-carbon world, will outstrip supply within the next decade, according to the global energy watchdog.

Supplies of the metal, a key component of every form of electrical energy system at present, will fall 30% short of the amount required by 2035 if nothing is done, analysis by the International Energy Agency predicts.