Breaking Waves: Ocean News

High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:01:05 +0000

Water quality testing by campaigners shows levels up to 27 times acceptable limit for bathing as rowers told to take precautions

Harmful E coli bacteria have been found at very high levels at Henley, days before elite rowers compete in the international regatta there.

A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:00:03 +0000

Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people

Valerie Spears hadn’t planned on taking swim lessons when she RSVP’d to her high school reunion in New York City.

But when Spears, a 72-year-old retiree who lives in Akron, Ohio, learned about a free class in Queens, she decided to pack her bathing suit.

Sinkhole appears in soccer field above Illinois mine: ‘Out of a movie’

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:05:21 +0000

No one was present when sinkhole, 100ft wide and 30ft deep, suddenly collapsed field in Alton, north of St Louis

A vast sinkhole has dramatically appeared in middle of an Illinois soccer pitch that was laid above a limestone mine, just days after amateur teams stopped using the grounds for practice.

Nuclear more costly and could ‘sound the death knell’ for Australia’s decarbonisation efforts, report says

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:14 +0000

Analysis from Bloomberg New Energy Finance says even if nuclear is successfully implemented it would be ‘at least four times’ more expensive than average cost of renewables

Fire ants could be spreading on Australian military bases due to ‘massive surveillance failure’, experts say

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:14 +0000

Exclusive: Invasive Species Council demands audit of all defence sites after red imported fire ants detected at Swartz Barracks outside Queensland containment zone

AI will be help rather than hindrance in hitting climate targets, Bill Gates says

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:36:58 +0000

Microsoft co-founder says efficiencies for technology and electricity grids will outweigh energy use by datacentres

Bill Gates has claimed that artificial intelligence will be more of a help than a hindrance in achieving climate goals, despite growing concern that an increase in new datacentres could drain green energy supplies.

The philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder told journalists that AI would enable countries to use less energy, even as they require more datacentres, by making technology and electricity grids more efficient.

US supreme court puts hold on EPA attempt to reduce pollution that drifts across states

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:06:31 +0000

Court grants temporary halt to program designed to stop ‘upwind’ states from causing pollution that flows to ‘downwind’ neighbors

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‘No chain stores, but moose on every corner’: as Colorado herds thrive, clashes with people rise

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:00:10 +0000

After being introduced to the state in the 1970s, there are now more attacks by moose than by puma and bears combined. Has the species become too successful?

One morning in the winter of 1978, a handful of state wildlife staff huddled together in the Uinta Mountains in north-eastern Utah. Deep snows coated the peaks and filled the valleys. A pair of helicopters cruised over the frozen landscape, helping those on the ground search for their prize: a cow moose in a snowy meadow.

Kids have a right to water in US schools, but does that water make the grade?

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:00:09 +0000

Almost 15 years after federal law put free water on school menus, states still struggle with how to guarantee access

Christina Hecht remembers how water made its way into school lunch law because the process was unusually easy. Back in the mid-2000s, a researcher toured school cafeterias in California and wondered, “What are these kids to do if they want a drink of water?” said Hecht, a policy adviser at the University of California’s Nutrition Policy Institute.

Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most

admin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:00:37 +0000

More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows

An onslaught of record-breaking heat across much of the US has provided yet another indicator of a longer-term issue – summers are progressively getting hotter for Americans in all corners of the country.