Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:44:24 +0000

The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences

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I got a text from a biodiversity advocate around midday on Thursday asking me: are you glad, or sad?

I wasn’t sure how to reply.

Environmental activist Ben Pennings declares ‘massive victory’ after Adani drops its years-long legal pursuit

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:37:11 +0000

Queensland supreme court orders Pennings, a campaigner against the Carmichael coalmine, not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information

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Large bull shark kills woman and injures man in attack at NSW beach

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:18:23 +0000

Swimmers aged in their 20s bitten by shark at Kylies beach in Crowdy Bay early on Thursday morning, with woman dying at the scene

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‘A win for nature and people’: Elizabeth line soil used to create Essex bird haven

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:00:05 +0000

A record 39,000 birds are overwintering on Wallasea island wetlands thanks to soil transported from London tunnels

Almost 40,000 birds have made their home on a nature reserve created using soil from tunnel excavations for the Elizabeth line.

Three million tonnes of earth were transported from London to Wallasea island in Essex and used to lift the ground level and make wetlands.

Ed Miliband confirms crackdown on North Sea exploration – but new drilling will continue

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:12:21 +0000

Strategy paper released with budget allows new oil and gas projects to move ahead if they are linked to existing fields

Comment: Labour is still in a muddle on North Sea oil and gas

The government has ruled out new North Sea oil and gas exploration or lower taxes for fossil fuel companies as it struggles to protect workers from the industry’s collapse.

John Kerry urges Australia to take ‘hard-nosed’ approach with world’s biggest fossil fuel-producing countries at Cop31

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:00:30 +0000

Exclusive: Former US secretary of state calls for more demanding steps from Australia as it takes over presidency of next year’s UN climate summit

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The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:00:30 +0000

The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fragile ecosystem to collapse, along with their way of life

At the mouth of Lake Manchar, gentle lapping disturbs the silence. A small boat cuts through the water, propelled by a bamboo pole scraping the muddy bottom of the canal.

Trump’s EPA moves to abandon tough standards for deadly soot pollution

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:41:01 +0000

EPA had previously said rule reducing fine particle matter from vehicles and industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year

The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources.

Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:00:27 +0000

While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target

Labor’s nature laws risk collapse with deal yet to be struck on eve of parliament’s final sitting day

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:29:54 +0000

If Labor cannot reach deal on Thursday, it will mark second time in 12 months that it has failed to secure planned EPBC Act reforms

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