Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Hawaii families receive payouts for 2021 fuel leak that sickened thousands

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:31:38 +0000

Judge grants payments between $5,000 and $104,000 after second world war-era tank leak contaminated water supply

Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:59:31 +0000

US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resources

Just 30 species of tree dominate world's most diverse savanna

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:25:48 +0000

Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado -- the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna -- account for nearly half of all its trees. The 'hyperdominance' by a few species could help researchers understand how this vast ecosystem functions.

Former Greens leaders urge party to stand up to Labor ‘arrogance’ as jockeying begins to replace Bandt

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:00:36 +0000

Richard Di Natale says party can regain lost seats, while Bob Brown and Christine Milne praise Adam Bandt’s leadership against ‘nasty misrepresentations’

Flood waters pour into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in rare spectacle ‘supercharged by climate change’

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:00:34 +0000

Sacred site of the Arabana people could get its most significant top-up in a generation as floods spread across the outback

A pulse of flood water has surged into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in what could be the most significant top-up in a generation.

‘We’re still living with the aftermath’: Floridians brace for fresh hurricane season

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:00:30 +0000

With less than a month before the start of the 2025 hurricane season, residents are still recovering from catastrophic damage from the past two years

Idalia. Debby. Helene.

Not visiting friends, not neighbors. All hurricanes that have not yet faded into memory for the residents of Taylor county in Florida, where all three powerful storms hit in just two years.

‘The fledglings couldn’t escape’: Dartmoor blaze raises questions about wildfire strategy

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:06:09 +0000

Commoners say restrictive grazing may be raising risk of fires like one that scorched 500ha of moorland

The spot where the wildfire broke out could hardly have been worse. Cut Hill is one of the remotest and highest peaks on Dartmoor, miles from any road, a place of tussocky, ankle-turning terrain.

‘Astonishing journeys’: online tool tracking migratory animals highlights challenge of protecting them

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:01:25 +0000

The University of Queensland system is intended to give policymakers idea of how species traverse the oceans and what it will take to save them

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Off the east coast of Florida, female loggerhead turtles swim more than 1,000km north, hugging the edge of the continental shelf to get to feeding grounds.

April storms that killed 24 in US made more severe by burning fossil fuels – study

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:00:24 +0000

Study finds human-caused climate change made four-day rainfall across central Mississippi valley 40% more likely

The four-day historic storm that caused death and destruction across the central Mississippi valley in early April was made significantly more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels, rapid analysis by a coalition of leading climate scientists has found.

Woodside staves off investor climate concerns at fiery AGM beset by protesters

admin — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:59:19 +0000

Fossil fuel company retains chosen board members, with former Shell executive Ann Pickard re-elected at meeting interrupted by whistle-blowing activists