Breaking Waves: Ocean News

‘Knight in spiny armor’: could lobsters help save Florida’s dying corals?

admin — Sat, 25 May 2024 13:00:26 +0000

A three-year study found that the spiny lobsters’ urine scared off predatory worms and snails who snack on the delicate organisms

An unexpected champion has emerged in the increasingly grave battle to save Florida’s imperiled coral reefs: spiny lobsters that urinate in the water and scare off predatory worms and snails seeking to feast on the delicate organisms.

More than 5,000 feral horses culled in Kosciuszko national park since aerial shooting resumed

admin — Sat, 25 May 2024 05:41:39 +0000

Conservationist says for first time number of animals removed exceeds annual population growth

Court bid to prevent Spurs leasing rewilded London golf course fails

admin — Sat, 25 May 2024 05:00:17 +0000

A football academy will be built on the site and campaigners say high court decision threatens other public parks

Public parks across London and beyond are being put at risk by a high court judgment in favour of Enfield council leasing a rewilded golf course to Tottenham Hotspur for a football academy, campaigners say.

Nearly 175 arrested as climate protesters target France’s TotalEnergies and key investor

admin — Sat, 25 May 2024 03:02:57 +0000

Demonstrators gathered outside Paris meetings of energy giant and Amundi, with some forcing their way into fund manager’s tower block

The head of TotalEnergies has told shareholders that new oilfields have to be developed to meet global demand, as the annual meetings of the French energy giant and one of its biggest shareholders were picketed by climate activists.

Police said they detained 173 people among hundreds who gathered outside the Paris headquarters of Amundi, one of the world’s biggest investment managers and a major TotalEnergies shareholder.

Hay festival drops main sponsor after boycotts over Israel and fossil fuel links

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:07:15 +0000

Literary event ‘suspends’ arrangement with Baillie Gifford after Charlotte Church and Nish Kumar joined performers pulling out

Middle East crisis – live updates

The Hay literary festival has dropped its principal sponsor after boycotts from speakers and performers over the firm’s links to Israel and fossil fuel companies.

‘Kitty cat’ storms hitting US heartland are growing threat to home insurance

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:00:59 +0000

Smaller secondary systems that create hailstorms and tornadoes pack a punch that is causing billions of dollars in damages

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

Scientists transplant soil fungi in race to save world’s threatened orchids

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 11:02:48 +0000

Display at Chelsea flower show highlights work in UK and US to bring orchid habitats back to health

Scientists are racing against the clock to save the world’s orchids by discovering the soil fungi they need to thrive, breeding them and then, in a first for conservation, transplanting them into orchid habitats.

Among the showy blooms at Chelsea flower show this week was a moss-covered exhibit, sprouting from which were the types of rare, native flowers one does not normally see at horticultural exhibits.

North Yorkshire town has UK’s highest concentration of ‘forever chemicals’

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 07:30:10 +0000

PFAS contamination recorded in groundwater on Angus Fire site in Bentham, and includes chemicals with known health impacts

A small North Yorkshire town has been found to have the highest concentration of “forever chemicals” in the UK, it can be revealed.

The market town of Bentham, which is home to 3,000 people and set on the banks of the River Wenning, is also home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre.

Week in wildlife – in pictures: dormouse gets a checkup, a lucky kingfisher and a waving seal pup

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 07:00:11 +0000

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Australian student helps discover potentially habitable planet the size of Earth – video

admin — Fri, 24 May 2024 06:02:37 +0000

Shishir Dholakia of the University of Southern Queensland's Centre for Astrophsics has identified Gliese 12b, a possibly temperate Earth-sized planet just 40 light years away. The student has been co-leading an international team that published the discovery in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society