Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Trump administration planning to allow oil and gas drilling off California coast

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:10:32 +0000

Plan, which Gavin Newsom, the governor, has said would be ‘dead on arrival’, will allow six lease sales from 2027 to 2030

The Trump administration is planning to allow oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in decades, according to a draft plan shared with the Washington Post.

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:18:30 +0000

10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil

Removing carbon from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best-case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C.

Ben Jennings on Cop30 – cartoon

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:54:58 +0000

Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites

Israeli armed forces and settlers have attacked Palestinian water sources more than 250 times in the past five years, amounting to the most sustained assault on civilian water supplies in recent years, new research reveals.

55m-year-old eggshells unearthed in Queensland may be older relative of infamous ‘drop crocs’

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:04 +0000

Scientists believe new discovery to be the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia

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The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target | Clear air

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:00:02 +0000

The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words

The best thing that can be said about the Coalition’s internal brawl over whether to abandon its support for reaching net zero emissions by 2050 is that it has some honesty in it. Not much honesty, but if you look closely you may see some light breaking through.

World must ‘honour 1.5C’, small island states insist at Cop30 summit – as it happened

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:59:57 +0000

This live blog is now closed. You can read the full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil here

In the run-up to Cop30, the Guardian published a series of articles looking at the ten biggest polluters of greenhouse gas, and their plans to clean up. Here’s a piece my colleague Jonathan Watts wrote in September about China, which according to an analysis published today has plateaued its emissions.

Waiting for the tsunami: its big waves are loved by surfers – but this Canadian town is braced for disaster

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:54 +0000

How do you plan for an event whose timing is unknown? For residents of Tofino on Vancouver Island the threat is distant but signs of preparedness are everywhere

Justin Goss was in the shower when he first heard the piercing wail of a nearby tsunami early-warning siren. Still dripping wet, he threw on clothes, grabbed his dog and rushed to the truck. The pair made it 3 metres and no further.

“The whole parking lot across the street was jammed up. It was complete gridlock within three minutes,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh shit, this is not good.’”

Wessex Water must pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:04:23 +0000

Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds

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Wessex Water has been ordered to pay £11m over wastewater failures and told to spend it on improvements to reduce sewage spills and other measures.

Violent reprisals after DRC whistleblowers discover profiteering in protected land

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:00:12 +0000

Environmentalists seeking to end logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC’s Mangrove Marine park faced threats, violence and rape

People who have tried to expose unlawful ownership and profit-making from protected land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have faced threats, violence and rape, an investigation has found.