Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Conservation group releases video showing logging near endangered greater gliders – video

admin — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:15:34 +0000

The group says the logging in a state-owned forest in Queensland is taking place less than 3km from a high-density population group of endangered greater gliders. Conservation groups want swathes of St Mary state forest near Maryborough to be included in the Queensland government's proposed Greater Glider Forest park

• After 25 years, logging and bushfires, a greater glider has been spotted in Deongwar state forest

Call for tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on eve of ‘Glorious Twelfth’

admin — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 05:00:33 +0000

For first time, moors must hold licence under regime aiming to reduce unlawful killing of birds of prey by gamekeepers

Wildlife campaigners are calling for even tougher policing of Scottish grouse moors on the eve of this year’s “Glorious Twelfth”, which marks the legal start of the grouse shooting season.

On Monday 12 August moors across the British uplands will echo to the sound of shotguns and estate vehicles.

It looks like a cross between a koala and a possum – and it’s in big trouble, Australian conservationists say

admin — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 00:00:28 +0000

Queensland Conservation Council is urging the state government to protect the endangered greater glider population as logging continues

Glossy black-cockatoos prefer the fruits of ancient rocks

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:58:58 +0000

New research has shown that glossy black-cockatoos prefer to feed from trees growing in acidic soils.

Nature at risk in the hunt for the perfect selfie

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:58:56 +0000

The need for a dramatic selfie or the perfect landscape photo is proving detrimental to nature, a new research collaboration has found.

Running in America’s worst air: ‘Like binging on a carton of cigarettes’

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:14 +0000

For a writer and runner in Denver, Colorado, the city’s severe air pollution creates a daily dilemma: do something you love, or risk your health?

Outdoor runners have always had a lot of data to juggle: their pace, heart-rate, mileage, route, calories, weather and much more. Though in recent years there’s been a new, considerably more ominous data point for alfresco athletes to monitor: the Air Quality Index (AQI).

US landfills are major source of toxic PFAS pollution, study finds

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:13 +0000

New research shows toxic ‘forever chemicals’ gas may escape landfills and threaten the environment

Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that leach from landfills into groundwater are among the major pollution sources in the US, and remain a problem for which officials have yet to find an effective solution.

Are some of your household products killing insects and wildlife?

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:13 +0000

Flea treatments for dogs, ant killer, washing-up liquid and herbicides may be partly to blame for decline in UK

Insect numbers are in freefall and most people know that pesticide use in agriculture is partly to blame.

But many domestic products including topical flea treatments for dogs, ant killer applications, washing-up liquid and herbicides can also contribute to the problem.

Excess memes and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, researcher warns

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:47:54 +0000

Most data stored on power-hungry servers is used once then never looked at again

When “I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes to blow our minds, it’s unlikely that anyone worried about how much energy it would use up.

‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates

admin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:00:14 +0000

Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses