Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Transformation of ocean management is underway

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 19:55:25 +0000

Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption of ecosystem-based management has been slow to take hold. To support this change in ocean management, a group of researchers and practitioners investigated the global progress of marine EBM initiatives.

‘Sugar is brown!’: there’s more to the sweet stuff than its pure white version

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:00:18 +0000

Sugar’s texture and taste can be as individualistic as coffee beans or wine grapes grown in specific regions, but most of us don’t know that

One night, I was preparing steak for dinner and mistakenly reached for the wrong white granulated substance. Instead of salting my steak to create a brown crust by searing, I created a brown crust with notes of caramel.

Ocean biodiversity work needs improvement

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 16:47:40 +0000

An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of management strategies and a failure to restrict the most impactful human activities.

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:16:41 +0000

Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches

Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

Rapid oyster reef restoration gives hope for repairing the sea

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:08:19 +0000

After a century of functional extinction on the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef has been successfully restored along a metropolitan Adelaide coastline.

Albanese government ‘twisted’ Indigenous group’s views in ‘future gas’ document, chair says

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:00:16 +0000

Exclusive: Samuel Sandy, chair of Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation, says the treatment of its submission was ‘wrong and upsetting’

‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:00:13 +0000

Top climate figures respond to Guardian survey of scientists who expect temperatures to soar, saying leaders must act radically

Cruise ship arrives at New York City harbor with dead whale caught on bow

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:17:14 +0000

The 44ft-long whale corpse was an endangered sei whale, which will now be examined to determine how it died

A cruise ship has journeyed into New York City’s harbor bearing a gruesome cargo in the form of a huge, dead whale sprawled across its bow.

The incident happened on Saturday, according to local US media reports, and the event is being held by some as further evidence of the unfortunate impact on sea life that large vessels can have.

Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 11:00:01 +0000

Andreas B. Heide has been shortlisted for a Shackleton award for his work in the far north, getting up close to nature to connect people emotionally with a fragile ecosystem

To say the images of Andreas B. Heide during his working day are dramatic is an understatement: a freediver deep underwater in a black wetsuit, his lean silhouette enhanced by powerful bladed fins, looking up towards a group of orcas; or standing on an ice sheet next to a small sailboat in the Arctic, amid a sea full of dangerous looking ice floes in poor visibility.

Vermont poised to become first US state to charge big oil for climate damage

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 10:00:09 +0000

If passed, the groundbreaking measure could be a model for other states to hold fossil fuel companies liable

Vermont is poised to pass a groundbreaking measure forcing major polluting companies to help pay for damages caused by the climate crisis, in a move being closely watched by other states including New York and California.