Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘It’s going to be messy’: advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boom

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 20:00:50 +0000

‘Some negative projects will get up, but we have to keep our eyes on the broader goals’, says WWF Australia

Hawaii: families complain of sickness two years after Pearl Harbor fuel leak

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 13:00:41 +0000

Court hears effects of 2021 leak, in which thousand of gallons of fuel seeped into drinking water supply from US navy storage tank

Military and civilian families told a federal judge this week they continue to be sickened, more than two years after a US navy underground fuel storage facility leaked thousands of gallons of jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s main drinking water and caused a water crisis in the Pacific.

Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 13:00:40 +0000

Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed

For Javier Torres and other workers whose jobs are conducted outdoors in south Florida, the heat is unavoidable. A new law recently signed by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, that prohibits any municipalities in the state from passing heat protections for workers ensures that it is likely to stay that way.

‘Be in awe’: everything you need to know about the US cicada-geddon

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:39 +0000

The emergence of trillions of cicadas is under way in parts of the US – what should you do when they’re around, and what on earth are ‘zombie’ cicadas?

Anger over burst main that deprived 31,000 East Sussex properties of water

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 09:33:20 +0000

Water bottle stations set up in St Leonards-on-Sea and part of Hastings as Southern Water customers face days without service

Southern Water was criticised this weekend for overseeing a “debacle” after a mains pipe burst, leaving 31,000 properties in Hastings and St Leonards without water.

There were long traffic queues leading to just four bottled water stations after supplies were cut off on Thursday. Businesses are expected to lose thousands of pounds, with the firm likely to face compensation claims.

Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 07:00:35 +0000

More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in decline

Bumblebee nests may be overheating, killing off broods and placing one of the Earth’s critical pollinators in decline as temperatures rise, new research has found.

‘Pesticides by stealth’: garden soil conditioners killing worms, experts fear

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 07:00:34 +0000

Even products marketed as ‘organic’ may be toxic, say campaigners, with risks for the wider ecosystem

Gardeners are inadvertently killing scores of earthworms with soil conditioners marketed as “organic”, experts fear, as they call for tighter regulation on products that poison the invertebrates.

Floods and landslide kill more than a dozen people in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:29:32 +0000

Officials say a landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday after torrential rain pounded the area

A flood and a landslide have hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 people, according to officials.

The landslide hit Luwu regency in South Sulawesi on Friday just after 1am local time, Abdul Muhari, spokesperson of Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB), said in a statement.

‘I’m happy we’re not killing them any more’: Ireland’s last basking shark hunter on the return of the giants

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:00:32 +0000

For 30 years, Brian McNeill hunted the world’s second-biggest fish from small boats off the wild west coast of Ireland. Now the species has made a recovery so rapid it has astounded scientists

The ambush was simple. A spotter on a hill would scan the sea and when he saw the big black fins approach, he would shout down to the boatmen. They would ready their nets and quickly row out to the kill zone.

Stony coral tissue loss disease is shifting the ecological balance of Caribbean reefs

admin — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:26:19 +0000

A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which is sure to disrupt the delicate balance of the ecosystem and threaten marine biodiversity and coastal economies.