Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The rangers turning the DRC’s ‘triangle of death’ back into a thriving wildlife reserve

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:00:16 +0000

Conflict nearly wiped out its large animals, but local determination is bringing Upemba park back from the brink

Photographs by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Ranger Sylvain Musimi had just risen from his morning coffee around the campfire when the rebels opened fire. It was a chilly early morning in mid-January, during rainy season in Upemba national park. Sixteen suspected members of the Bakata Katanga militia, faces daubed in white war paint, surprised the party of four rangers only 5.5 miles (9km) from Upemba’s base camp.

Tuesday briefing: Why the oceans are on the frontline of the climate crisis

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:55:15 +0000

In today’s newsletter: Our Seascapes editor on the dangers our seas and oceans face – and what we can do to help

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Rare moth found in Cambridgeshire orchard threatened by busway plan

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:00:12 +0000

Appearance of dark crimson underwing causes excitement on land that would be bisected by road scheme

Beneath oak canopies, in an orchard full of hundred-year-old apple trees, excited exclamations rose from a group of moth enthusiasts last week.

The Cambridgeshire Moth Group had just trapped a dark crimson underwing, a species so rare that none of them had ever seen it before. Indeed, the colourful invertebrate is only usually ever found in the New Forest and is considered nationally scarce.

The Coalition has turned its renewable energy denial into a nuclear roadmap to nowhere. It’s exhausting | Adam Morton

admin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:09:52 +0000

The opposition has still produced nothing to back up its widely disputed claim that Australia could have an operational nuclear industry before the 2040s

About 90kg of dead fish removed from Walsall canal after sodium cyanide leak

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:36:38 +0000

Environmental charity fears ‘the aquatic ecosystem will have been devastated or lost’ after chemical spill last week

About 90kg (200lbs) of dead fish have been removed from a canal after a sodium cyanide leak in Walsall that experts fear could have “devastated the aquatic ecosystem” in the area.

Forest loss intensifies climate change by increasing temperatures and cloud level, which leads to decrease of water

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:07:48 +0000

Researchers report that deforestation during the last two decades induced a higher warming and cloud level rise than that caused by climate change, which threatens biodiversity and water supply in African montane forests.

Residents’ lungs aged ‘more rapidly’ after exposure to smoke from Hazelwood coalmine fire, research shows

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:00:20 +0000

Study finds ‘statistically significant association’ between exposure to fine particles in coalmine fire smoke and aging of lungs, equal to 4.7 years

London City airport expansion given green light by ministers

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:48:31 +0000

Climate campaigners criticise decision to allow capacity to increase from 6.5m to 9m passengers a year

Ministers have approved London City airport’s application to expand, in a decision that has disappointed climate campaigners.

The airport submitted a proposal to increase capacity from 6.5 million to 9 million passengers a year by putting on more weekend and early morning flights. Local campaigners and Newham council opposed the move, arguing the air and noise pollution would affect people living nearby and that it could potentially increase carbon emissions.

In my war against pigeons, all I have is a broom. But the ‘rats of the sky’ remain unflappable | Calla Wahlquist

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:00:21 +0000

They threaten our drinking water and refuse to budge. But non-lethal methods are the only advisable ways to deal with the infestation

‘Exceptionally difficult’: grueling wildfires test the resolve of US crews

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:00:20 +0000

Thousands of firefighters are deployed as an all time record for acres burned – and it’s only August. Now some worry about the long months ahead

It’s still early in the wildfire season for the American west, but it’s already shaping up to be a tough and, in some cases, record-breaking year.