Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill, from tax cuts to mass deportations

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:46:31 +0000

All the key points laid out in the US president’s House-approved sweeping bill as it awaits Senate consideration

Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:42:45 +0000

Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction

Environmental activists in Brazil have decried a dramatic rollback of environmental safeguards after the senate approved a bill that would dismantle licensing processes and increase the risk of widespread destruction.

Climate change poses severe threat to bowhead whale habitat

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:55:30 +0000

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per cent.

AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:07:15 +0000

Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today

Artificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.

Revealed: three tonnes of uranium legally dumped in protected English estuary in nine years

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:00:33 +0000

Exclusive: expert raises concerns over quantities allowed to be discharged from nuclear fuel factory near Preston

The Environment Agency has allowed a firm to dump three tonnes of uranium into one of England’s most protected sites over the past nine years, it can be revealed, with experts sounding alarm over the potential environmental impact of these discharges.

‘Unprecedented’ marine heatwave hits waters around Devon, Cornwall and Ireland

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:27:36 +0000

Scientists warn of profound impacts as sea temperatures rise by up to 4C above average for springtime

The sea off the coast of the UK and Ireland is experiencing an unprecedented marine heatwave with temperatures increasing by as much as 4C above average for the spring in some areas.

Fury as Republicans go ‘nuclear’ in fight over California car emissions

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:09 +0000

Newsom issues rallying cry as GOP-controlled Senate votes to reverse EPA waiver and prevent state setting own rules

California has long been one of the nation’s preeminent eco-warriors, enacting landmark environmental standards for cars and trucks that go much further than those mandated by the federal government. Vehicles across the country are cleaner, more efficient and electric in greater numbers because of it.

Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:09 +0000

Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts

A Republican push to dismantle clean energy incentives threatens to reverberate across the US by costing more than 830,000 jobs, raising energy bills for US households and threatening to unleash millions more tonnes of the planet-heating pollution that is causing the climate crisis, experts have warned.

Chris Packham calls sea bass labelling in UK supermarkets a ‘dereliction of duty’

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:30:46 +0000

The TV naturalist’s comments come after a Guardian investigation into the complex supply chain behind the fish on sale on Britain’s high streets

The hidden cost of your supermarket sea bass

admin — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:30:45 +0000

Revealed: an investigation shows how consumers buying fish in the UK are playing a role in food insecurity and unemployment in Senegal