Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Deadly algal bloom in South Australia’s Coorong an environmental ‘eye opener’, ecologist says

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:00:03 +0000

Among the dead in the internationally significant wetland are estuarine snails, shore crabs, baby flounder and ‘a thick stew of polychaete worms’

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Jon Davis on the joys of discovery in the countryside – cartoon

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:00:46 +0000

Is the ocean ‘having a moment’? This was the UN summit where the world woke up to the decline of the seas

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 06:00:41 +0000

A slew of global leaders met in the south of France to discuss the future of the oceans. There was ‘momentum’ and ‘enthusiasm’, but there were critical voices too

The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope … and we are all in the same boat.” So said Jacques Cousteau, the French explorer, oceanographer and pioneering film-maker, who notably pivoted from merely sharing his underwater world to sounding the alarm over its destruction.

Tulane University scientist resigns citing environmental censorship

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:46:45 +0000

Kimberley Terrell’s research into health and job disparities had triggered a backlash from state and Tulane leaders

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Trump’s ‘gas-guzzling’ parade will produce planet-heating pollution costs, analysis says

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:26:08 +0000

Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a year

Donald Trump’s military parade this weekend will bring thousands of troops out to march, while dozens of tanks and armored personnel carriers roll down the streets and fighter jets hum overhead.

Trump pulls US from plan to recover salmon population, calling it ‘radical’

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:11:36 +0000

Groups say president ‘grievously wrong’ after withdrawing from Biden-led deal to protect fish in Pacific north-west

Donald Trump has pulled the US federal government from a historic agreement to recover the salmon population in the Pacific north-west, calling the plan “radical environmentalism”.

Plastics campaigners warn Australia’s pledge at UN needs to be matched with ‘high ambition at home’

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:00:55 +0000

Environment minister Murray Watt is returning from oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and ratify a treaty to protect the high seas

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Environmentalists worry as Labor seeks consensus on new federal nature laws

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:00:53 +0000

Environment minister Murray Watt is restarting the process after the government shelved earlier proposed reforms

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A select group of environment and industry leaders will be brought together in a fresh attempt to build consensus on a long-awaited rewrite of federal nature laws, Guardian Australia can reveal.

Devon farm footage prompts calls to ban restrictive pens for pregnant pigs

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:27:36 +0000

Welfare of sows confined to farrowing crates was compromised and they displayed signs of extreme stress, experts say

The use of restrictive pens to temporarily house pregnant pigs in the UK severely compromises their welfare, can traumatise them and should be banned, experts have said.

‘A small but mighty program’: little-known US light pollution agency threatened by Trump funding cuts

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:00:45 +0000

The Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division strives to provide ‘full sensory experience’ in country’s national parks

The Trump administration appears poised to cut the US Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division (NSNSD), a little-known office that works to rein in noise and light pollution in national parks, a task that is seen as a vital environmental endeavor.