Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Where camels die of thirst: Morocco’s oasis emergency – in pictures

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:01:10 +0000

Before It’s Gone is a series about the climate crisis and water scarcity in Morocco by photographer M’hammed Kilito, who highlights the degradation of countless oases

Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:00:09 +0000

Hot summer also causing trees to shed their leaves as concerns raised over ‘food gap’ for wildlife in autumn

Autumn is the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, according to the poet John Keats – but anyone hoping for a glut of blackberries this September may be sorely disappointed.

Most of Windermere polluted with sewage bacteria, finds biggest survey of its kind

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:00:09 +0000

Exclusive: Concentrations of faecal bacteria in the lake were found to peak in summer but there were high levels throughout year

Bathing water quality across most of Windermere is poor throughout the summer, indicating high levels of sewage pollution, according to a comprehensive analysis of water quality in England’s largest lake.

Action needed on plastic additives linked to sperm decline, experts warn

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:00:08 +0000

Amid collapse of global pollution treaty, scientists highlight environmental factors causing fertility crisis

Action must be taken to curb the use of plastic additives linked to plummeting sperm counts, a leading reproductive scientist has warned, as splits over chemical regulation contributed to the collapse of a crucial treaty on plastic pollution.

Across the world, sperm counts have been declining at a rate of about 1% a year for the past 50 years, and human fertility has been diminishing at a similar rate, studies have shown.

Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics? – podcast

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:00:09 +0000

After three years of negotiating, talks over a global plastics treaty came to an end in Geneva last week with no agreement in place. So why has it been so difficult to get countries to agree to cut plastic production? Madeleine Finlay hears from Karen McVeigh, a senior reporter for Guardian Seascapes, about a particularly damaging form of plastic pollution causing devastation off the coast of Kerala, and where we go now that countries have failed to reach a deal

Clips: Fox News, BBC, 7News Australia, France 24, DW News, CNA

Scarborough struggles with ‘gull muggings’ as urban seabird population rises

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:00:08 +0000

Herring gulls and kittiwakes have learned the easiest meal comes from robbing humans rather than at sea

In a flurry of wings, the predator was off with its prize: a steaming pasty snatched from the hands of a day tripper from Birmingham. “What do you want me to do about it?” her unsympathetic husband said. “I can’t fly.”

Such a scene has become an almost daily spectacle on the Scarborough seafront, said Amy Watson, a supervisor at the Fishpan restaurant, where hungry herring gulls lurk for their quarry.

US pipeline protester’s obstruction conviction overturned by appeals court

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:02:02 +0000

New trial for Mylene Vialard after Minnesota judges find ‘pervasive’ prosecutorial misconduct in Line 3 protest case

The controversial felony conviction of a peaceful climate activist has been overturned by an appeals court due to “pervasive” prosecutorial misconduct.

Mylene Vialard, 56, was found guilty of felony obstruction in 2023 for her role in trying to halt construction of a fossil-fuel pipeline through Indigenous territory in Minnesota, in a trial beset by irregularities.

The Guardian view on food and farming: climate chaos hits crops hard – and that should worry everyone | Editorial

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:53:05 +0000

Last year’s floods have been followed by heatwaves. Ministers must throw their weight behind resilient, adaptable agriculture

Ben Jennings on wildfires and summer holidays – cartoon

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:10:41 +0000

Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:54:44 +0000

Assessment suggests cost of project to store 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste could reach £54bn

The UK’s proposal for a new underground nuclear waste dump has been described as “unachievable” in a Treasury assessment of the project.