Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/kominki.evenweb.com en Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/companies-could-have-profits-breaking-environment-laws-stripped-under-australian-refor <p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Looming overhaul of protections should also include definition of ‘unacceptable impact’ on environment, Murray Watt says</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/10/sign-up-for-the-clear-air-australia-environment-newsletter-with-adam-morton?CMP=cvau_sfl">Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here</a></p> </li></ul><p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/companies-could-have-profits-breaking-environment-laws-stripped-under-australian-refor" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:00:38 +0000 admin 101594 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/much-fairer-all-profits-new-orkney-windfarm-benefit-locals <p>Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm</p> <p>Every islander on Orkney is expected to benefit from a major windfarm being built by the local council after it won £62m in financing from the UK’s national wealth fund.</p> <p>All the profits from the project to build up to 18 turbines across three islands on Orkney will be spent on local services, council officials said, in what is expected to become the UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/much-fairer-all-profits-new-orkney-windfarm-benefit-locals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:25:52 +0000 admin 101593 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Fears of heat-rationing for millions in US as shutdown delays energy aid https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/fears-heat-rationing-millions-us-shutdown-delays-energy-aid <p>Most vulnerable families could be without critical energy assistance, experts warn, as electricity and gas bills surge</p> <p>Millions of Americans face having to ration heating this winter as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-federal-government-shutdown-2025">US federal government shutdown</a> and mass layoffs by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a> cause unprecedented delays in getting energy assistance aid to low-income households, a group that helps people pay energy bills has warned.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/fears-heat-rationing-millions-us-shutdown-delays-energy-aid" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:36 +0000 admin 101591 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Trump EPA seeks to weaken scrutiny for some of US’s most toxic chemicals https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/trump-epa-seeks-weaken-scrutiny-some-us-s-most-toxic-chemicals <p>New rule would prohibit states from banning dangerous chemicals, and could invalidate hundreds of protections</p> <p>A new rule proposed by the Trump administration would dramatically weaken safety reviews for some of the nation’s most toxic chemicals that are already on the market, public health advocates and an EPA employee warn.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/trump-epa-seeks-weaken-scrutiny-some-us-s-most-toxic-chemicals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:36 +0000 admin 101592 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Infectious diseases are killing deer and risking rural US economies: ‘You smell the dead everywhere’ https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/infectious-diseases-are-killing-deer-and-risking-rural-us-economies-you-smell-dead-eve <p>Climate crisis contributing to spread of diseases as hunting industry takes a hit from growing number of dead deer</p> <p>When landowner and hunter James Barkhurst went scouting his property about a month ago to assess the local deer population ahead of the fall hunting season, he was left in shock.</p> <p>“I’ve seen about 14 dead in less than a mile stretch. There’s a lot of does, big bucks and even fawns. You smell the dead everywhere,” he says. “And I haven’t really went deep into the woods.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/infectious-diseases-are-killing-deer-and-risking-rural-us-economies-you-smell-dead-eve" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:34 +0000 admin 101596 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country <p>Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects</p> <p>Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects.</p> <p>The country was until this month one of the few places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica.</p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/21/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country">Continue reading...</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:41:08 +0000 admin 101590 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Delhi awakes to a toxic haze after Diwali as pollution season begins https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/delhi-awakes-toxic-haze-after-diwali-pollution-season-begins <p>Air breathed by people in the city categorised as ‘severe’ in quality after fireworks contribute to thick smog</p> <p>Delhi awoke to a thick haze on Tuesday, a day after millions of people celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks, marking the beginning of the pollution season that has become an annual blight on India’s capital.</p> <p>Those in the most polluted city in the world once again found themselves breathing dangerously toxic air that fell into the “severe” category on Tuesday morning.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/delhi-awakes-toxic-haze-after-diwali-pollution-season-begins" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:11:18 +0000 admin 101589 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org On the trail of the guano miners – in pictures https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/trail-guano-miners-pictures <p>Guano, a fertiliser derived from seabird excrement, enriched Peru in the 19th century and was shipped around the world in huge quantities. On Santa Island, north of Lima, workers still mine it in the toughest of conditions</p> <p><em>Photographs by Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images</em></p> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/oct/21/on-the-trail-of-the-guano-miners-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:38 +0000 admin 101588 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Ed Miliband’s new green jobs will bring Britain hope. I dare Reform to denounce them | Polly Toynbee https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/ed-miliband-s-new-green-jobs-will-bring-britain-hope-i-dare-reform-denounce-them-polly <p>While Nigel Farage promotes retro plans to reopen coalmines, will he really tell thousands of clean energy workers to leave their well-paid, local jobs?</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/ed-miliband-s-new-green-jobs-will-bring-britain-hope-i-dare-reform-denounce-them-polly" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:00:33 +0000 admin 101587 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/beasts-sea-tragic-story-how-gentle-lovable-sea-cow-became-perfect-victim <p>Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plight</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/beasts-sea-tragic-story-how-gentle-lovable-sea-cow-became-perfect-victim" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:00:33 +0000 admin 101586 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org