Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Railroad wrongly burned chemicals after East Palestine derailment, agency says

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:04:29 +0000

National Transportation Safety Board faults Norfolk Southern and contractors with unnecessary pollution

The National Transportation Safety Board said that Norfolk Southern and its contractors unnecessarily burned toxic chemicals - including vinyl chloride – from its tank cars during the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last February, unleashing hazardous fumes into the air.

‘Most of it was dead’: scientists discovers one of Great Barrier Reef’s worst coral bleaching events

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:00:29 +0000

Analysis of high-resolution drone imagery concludes 97% of corals died at a Lizard Island reef between March and June this year

US pledges to be a climate finance leader but defends gas expansion

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:14:59 +0000

John Podesta, Biden’s top climate official, calls for other big economies to step in to help poorer states

The US will “continue to be a leader” in climate finance, the White House’s top climate official has promised, though without specifying how much it would provide to poor countries.

John Podesta, senior adviser to Joe Biden on international climate policy, also defended the large-scale US expansion of gas production, saying the world was fortunate America was strengthening its supply, given the demand for non-Russian sources after the invasion of Ukraine.

Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:26 +0000

The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability

An extensive aerial survey in South Sudan has revealed an enormous migration of 6 million antelope – the largest migration of land mammals anywhere on Earth. It is more than double the size of the celebrated annual “great migration” between Tanzania and Kenya, which involves about 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle.

Served up from the sea: 10 of the best sustainable eateries on the British coast

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:00:25 +0000

Looking for ethical and delicious seafood? Here’s our pick of shacks, cafés and shops selling shellfish, seaweed and fish

‘Male’ Brazilian rainbow boa produces 14 baby snakes in ‘miracle birth’

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:59:50 +0000

Misidentified reptile Ronaldo had not been in contact with any other snakes for at least nine years

The appearance of 14 baby snakes in a vivarium occupied by a Brazilian rainbow boa snake called Ronaldo was surprising on two counts.

First, staff at the City of Portsmouth college had thought Ronaldo was a male; second the 1.8-metre (6ft) long reptile had not been in contact with any other snakes for at least nine years.

Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:00:03 +0000

Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species

Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study.

Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level rise

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:00:02 +0000

Small increase in temperature of intruding water could lead to very big increase in loss of ice, scientists say

A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea level rise is significantly higher than current projections.

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study finds

admin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:00:08 +0000

Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades

Sea level rise driven by global heating will disrupt the daily life of millions of Americans, as hundreds of homes, schools and government buildings face frequent and repeated flooding by 2050, a new study has found.

Clothes, cookware, floss: Colorado law to ban everyday products with PFAS

admin — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:13:16 +0000

Items containing ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer risk, lower fertility and developmental delays

A new law coming into effect in Colorado in July is banning everyday products that intentionally contain toxic “forever chemicals”, including clothes, cookware, menstruation products, dental floss and ski wax – unless they can be made safer.