Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program

admin — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:00:04 +0000

Exclusive: Colin Simpfendorfer’s resignation from working group comes as conservationists lash expansion of lethal program they say ‘does nothing to improve beach safety’

Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast

Anger as Dorset estate withdraws public entry to ‘stunning’ local landmark

admin — Sat, 31 May 2025 10:00:41 +0000

Visitors lament ‘tremendous shame’ as notice withdrawing public access appears after £30m sale of Bridehead Estate

For decades the lake and waterfall on the Bridehead Estate in Dorset have brought joy to visitors who used the permissive path to access a scene of pastoral loveliness that could have come straight from the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel.

But there was melancholy – and anger – among the hundreds, possibly thousands, who made final pilgrimages to the village of Littlebredy this week after it was announced that access to the public was being halted from 2 June.

Brazil’s environmental governance is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

admin — Sat, 31 May 2025 05:00:36 +0000

Politicians reviled environmental minister Marina Silva in the senate this week, but new legislation is fuelling the fire

What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?

admin — Sat, 31 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 31 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00126-5

What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?

‘Nothing left’: Irish whale-watching company closes amid ‘overfishing’

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:42:33 +0000

Sprat fishing has disrupted the food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins

A whale-watching company has abandoned tours off Ireland’s southern Atlantic coast and declared the waters an empty, lifeless sea.

Colin Barnes, who ran Cork Whale Watch, announced he was closing the company because overfishing of sprat has disrupted the marine food chain and diverted humpback, minke and fin whales as well as dolphins.

Australia’s best photos of the month – May 2025

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:00:21 +0000

Floods, elections and frocks: here is Guardian Australia’s pick of the month’s most striking images

Australia’s emissions up slightly in 2024 as Labor faces heat over ‘climate-wrecking’ gas project

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:00:20 +0000

Greens leader accuses Albanese government of failing two climate tests: pollution on the rise and approving extension for North West Shelf

Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email

Sussan Ley wants to keep the Coalition together – but caving on net zero won’t help her win back seats | Tom McIlroy

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:00:18 +0000

High-profile Nationals and powerful forces in business and media are pushing back against climate action, posing a test of credibility for the new Liberal leader

After another scrappy week for the faltering Coalition, Bridget McKenzie on Thursday called for the National party to stop talking about itself.

Warning UK-Gulf trade deal could let in low-welfare chicken and undermine farmers

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:04:42 +0000

Industry figures say allowing poultry imports that do not align with British production standards would be ‘betrayal’

UK politics live – latest updates

Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days

admin — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:00:14 +0000

After historic seasons in last two years, blazes continue trend of warm, dry conditions intensified by climate crisis

Enormous early-season wildfires have erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week, taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.