Breaking Waves: Ocean News

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.

Chevron boss’s gripe about Australia: be more like the US or the Middle East | Temperature check

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:03:47 +0000

Mike Wirth, CEO of company responsible for more greenhouse gases than any other independently owned entity, thinks Australia should adopt US policies to attract fossil fuel dollars

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Drone footage shows Spanish village destroyed by wildfires – video

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:26:24 +0000

People returned to Palacios de Jamuz, a village in north-west Spain, after homes, crops and trees were badly burnt in recent blazes. Relentless heat and raging wildfires continue to ravage southern Europe, with a quarter of weather stations in Spain recording temperatures of 40C (104F) or above over the weekend

Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat

Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:12:08 +0000

Fishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk

The singer and environmentalist Feargal Sharkey is threatening to take the Environment Agency to court for draining a river that hosts the oldest fishing club in England and putting a rare population of brown trout at risk.

The former Undertones frontman chairs the Amwell Magna Fishery, which has used the secluded stretch of the River Lea in Hertfordshire since 1841.

Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:00:40 +0000

Exclusive: Public comments show that a crackdown on signs ‘disparaging’ Americans is not popular

As part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.

Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:27:55 +0000

Extreme temperatures exacerbated by carbon pollution fuel fires in southern Europe as green policies are rolled back

Why have I been hoarding 39,674 emails? | Emma Beddington

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:00:31 +0000

We can save water and help the environment just by clearing out our inboxes – so what am I doing with all these old takeaway receipts?