Breaking Waves: Ocean News

NSW’s koala national park will protect threatened species and cap logging across the state. Could the Greens really block it? | Adam Morton

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:00:18 +0000

The Albanese government approved a proposal allowing the park to create carbon credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sparking a schism among environmentalists

What qualifies as a win in environmental campaigning?

Is it when a huge forest area that is home to a stack of threatened species, including koalas, and has been the focus of years and years of campaigning, is protected from logging?

‘Not any old vermin’: rats numbers are on the rise thanks to global heating – and poison may not be the answer

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:00:38 +0000

Robert Corrigan has been dealing with the ‘smart’ rodents all his life – and believes there are better solutions to deal with the growing infestation in the world’s cities

“The rodents have paid for every single bill I’ve ever had – every mortgage, every car payment, every pint of Guinness,” says Dr Robert Corrigan. “It’s been a great ride and I’m still at it.”

New York-based Corrigan is one of the most respected voices in the world of rodentology. Now in his 70s, he has devoted his entire adult life to studying rats and our relationship with them.

US fossil fuel lobbyists also represent hundreds of cities fighting for climate damages

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:35 +0000

Local governments working with firms also linked to fossil fuel giants, analysis of federal lobbying disclosures shows

Congressional lobbyists working for fossil fuel firms that are exacerbating the climate crisis are simultaneously representing more than 300 local governments raising funding to recover from climate damage, according to a new analysis.

Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:04:56 +0000

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running

The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil’s UK emissions, analysis has revealed.

Experts have said this demonstrates the “serious threat” datacentres pose to the UK’s legally binding climate goals.

Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:34 +0000

Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors.

Fishy business: who really profits when sardines go viral? - video

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:46 +0000

Once a cheap store-cupboard staple, sardines are fast becoming a luxury food item. Last year, #SardineGirlSummer saw influencers promoting the health benefits of sardinemaxxing, while sardinecore became the must-have fashion trend. Now, demand is accelerating just as Morocco’s sardine stock has collapsed, causing shortages on supermarket shelves. The Guardian travels to Matosinhos in Portugal, the cultural home of the sardine industry, to investigate who is profiting from the boom, how it has affected local fishermen, and what sustainability looks like in an era of global heating

US building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China in AI boom, analysis finds

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:34 +0000

There has been a 76% increase in under-construction gas-fired projects amid ‘frenzy’ to build more datacenters

The US has surged ahead of China in the building of new gas-fired power generation, largely to feed a boom in artificial intelligence (AI) that is adding vast amounts of planet-heating emissions, a new analysis has found.

From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:53 +0000

Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:53 +0000

New documentary To Use a Mountain spotlights the pain and triumph of resisting government efforts to turn parts of rural US into disposal sites

‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:17:21 +0000

A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats

On a rocky beach in Cornwall, a group of wetsuit-clad freedivers and snorkellers are wading into the shallows. Below St Mawes Castle, built by Henry VIII to defend Falmouth harbour, they disappear in a swish of florescent pink and green fins.

They are volunteers, trained by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust to use underwater cameras and floating GPS devices to detect changes in marine habitats over time.