Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:08:03 +0000

Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science

‘It’s Scotland’s energy’: SNP to focus on renewables in Holyrood election

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:05:05 +0000

Leader John Swinney says independence could cut household energy bills by a third in the long term

The future of Scottish renewables will underpin the Scottish National party’s Holyrood election campaign, the party leader, John Swinney, has said, as he claimed independence could cut household energy bills by a third in the long term.

Cornish activist injured as police remove her from tree-felling protest

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:30:33 +0000

Charity worker had joined 40 demonstrators ‘bearing witness’ to the loss of three lime trees in Falmouth

A charity worker suffered a head injury when police tried to remove her from a protest against trees being felled in a Cornish seaside town.

Debs Newman, 60, was “bearing witness” to the loss of three mature lime trees in Falmouth when she was seized by officers.

White storks to make historic return to London in 2026

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:00:46 +0000

Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort

Above the roar of traffic, the rumble of the tube and the juddering construction noise of a towering new datacentre in Dagenham, east London, will soon rise a beautiful and unlikely melody: the bill-clattering of white storks.

The birds will next year make a historic return to the UK capital as part of an ambitious rewilding effort to bring charismatic nature into busy city communities.

Australia’s bushfires were held at bay by five wet years — but experts warn the country is ‘ready to burn’

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:00:46 +0000

Blazes in NSW and Tasmania have already led to a firefighter losing his life and close to 40 homes being destroyed as an ominous fire season begins

Australians should “expect the unexpected” this bushfire season amid dangerous conditions, experts have warned, after a severe start that saw a firefighter killed and homes destroyed in several states.

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:00:41 +0000

At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipeline

Last week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. The Labour government announced it would ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, strengthen a windfall tax and accelerate phasing out of fossil-fuel subsidies.

More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:00:40 +0000

Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis

A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis.

‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:00:44 +0000

Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030

Britain’s energy system operator is pulling the plug on hundreds of electricity generation projects to clear a huge backlog that is stopping “shovel-ready” schemes from connecting to the power grid.

Perceived fairness of conservation decision-making more strongly influenced by absence than presence of procedural equity criteria

admin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:00:00 +0000

npj Ocean Sustainability, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s44183-025-00174-x

Perceived fairness of conservation decision-making more strongly influenced by absence than presence of procedural equity criteria

The restaurateur chronicling hardships of immigrant staff in US kitchens: ‘These are the stories that make it work’

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:00:25 +0000

In Voices from the Kitchen, Marc Meyer pulls the curtain back on the harrowing journeys of the people who run his restaurants

Throughout his lifetime, the celebrated chef and author Anthony Bourdain was unequivocal in his belief that the restaurant industry in the US could not function without immigrant labor. These indispensable workers, Bourdain argued, were not only willing to do the jobs that most US-born citizens would look down upon, but also they did them better and faster.