Breaking Waves: Ocean News

How 'forever chemicals' have seeped into almost everything – video

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:21:37 +0000

Pfas are a group of thousands of chemicals that are used for their non-stick and water-resistant properties. They are often refered to as 'forever chemicals' because they can take thousands of years to break down. Pfas are being found in so many everyday items that it's starting to feel like they are everywhere - non-stick frying pans, waterproof mascaras, stain-resistant clothing, packaging for takeaway food items. Pfas are even in our food, our drinking water and in the rain.

The US buried millions of gallons of wartime nuclear waste – Doge cuts could wreck the cleanup

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:00:12 +0000

Hanford made the plutonium for US atomic bombs, and its radioactive waste must be dealt with. Enter Elon Musk

In the bustling rural city of Richland, in south-eastern Washington, the signs of a nuclear past are all around.

A small museum explains its role in the Manhattan Project and its “singular mission – [to] develop the world’s first atomic bomb before the enemy might do the same”. The city’s high school sports team is still known as the Bombers, with a logo that consists of the letter R set with a mushroom cloud.

A seadragon and flushing worms: Environmental Photography award winners – in pictures

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 11:34:29 +0000

Winning images from the 2025 Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography award, selected from 10,000 images submitted globally. The contest aims to reward photographers who put their creativity to good use in raising awareness of the importance of environmental protection

South Korea’s female freedivers: TV has made stars of the haenyeo but what is their real story?

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:00:20 +0000

The craze for Korean culture has brought fame to the ‘women of the sea’, but not always to their benefit. Now they want to reclaim their stories to inspire a new generation

Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:00:17 +0000

Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet

The precedent is uncanny, and the failure to learn from it downright mystifying. Keir Starmer is rushing gladly towards the catastrophe Boris Johnson inflicted on himself in 2020. Had he set out to stymie Labour’s chances of re-election, he couldn’t be doing it better.

MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producers

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:00:16 +0000

Bill would force major polluters to pay into fund for flood defences and home insulation – but has little chance of becoming law

Fossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets should have to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation, according to a private member’s bill to be launched on Thursday.

Endangered New Zealand bird caught fighting ‘at risk’ reptile in rare footage

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 04:47:53 +0000

A video shows the large flightless takahē bird in hot pursuit of the tuatara – but the tables soon turn

Two of New Zealand’s most rare and beloved animals – a large flightless takahē bird and an ancient tuatara reptile – have been captured chasing and nipping at one another during a bush-floor melee.

Marine spatial planning and marine protected area planning are not the same and both are key for sustainability in a changing ocean

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 15 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00119-4

Marine spatial planning and marine protected area planning are not the same and both are key for sustainability in a changing ocean

LNP to cut all funding for Queensland’s Environmental Defenders Office, breaking election promise

admin — Thu, 15 May 2025 02:39:33 +0000

EDO boss says Crisafulli government decision means many ‘won’t even know their rights, let alone have the chance to exercise them’

UK urged not to exploit poor countries in rush for critical minerals

admin — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:01:09 +0000

Civil society groups call on government to address risk of neocolonial exploitation in its supply chain strategy

The risk of neocolonial exploitation in the global rush for critical minerals must be addressed by the government as it formulates its official supply chain strategy, say civil society campaigners.

They have said the scrabble for access is being greenwashed as wealthier economies around the world attempt to line up a host of minerals that are essential to the manufacture of hi-tech products, including cobalt, lithium and nickel.