Breaking Waves: Ocean News https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-waves/www.cheap-nfl-jerseysus.com/trackback en Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/government-overturns-tory-measure-and-bans-emergency-use-bee-killing-pesticide <p>Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU</p> <p>Bee-killing pesticides have been banned for emergency use in the UK for the first time in five years after the government rejected an application from the National Farmers’ Union and British Sugar.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/government-overturns-tory-measure-and-bans-emergency-use-bee-killing-pesticide" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:39:04 +0000 admin 98680 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/labour-mps-ordered-sink-landmark-climate-and-environment-bill <p>Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits</p> <p>A landmark bill that would make the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding seems doomed after government whips ordered Labour MPs to oppose it following a breakdown in negotiations.</p> <p>Supporters of the climate and nature bill, introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage, say Labour insisted on the removal of clauses that would require the UK to meet the targets it agreed to at Cop and other international summits.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/labour-mps-ordered-sink-landmark-climate-and-environment-bill" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:12:52 +0000 admin 98681 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org How the ‘forever tote’ became the It bag du jour https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/how-forever-tote-became-it-bag-du-jour <p>The original cotton totes have a ‘disarmingly short’ life cycle – so demand is high for a more environmentally friendly version</p> <p>This year’s It bag isn’t made by any of the usual designers. And if this bag could talk, it wouldn’t say “calf leather” so much as “wash me at 40C”. What’s more, in an ideal world, you would never want to buy another again.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/how-forever-tote-became-it-bag-du-jour" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:10:46 +0000 admin 98679 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘A hugely significant sighting’: red goshawk photographed for first time in central Australia https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/hugely-significant-sighting-red-goshawk-photographed-first-time-central-australia <p>Bird snapped by Newhaven wildlife sanctuary ecologist is likely a juvenile on risky 1,500km journey away from parents, expert says</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/hugely-significant-sighting-red-goshawk-photographed-first-time-central-australia" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:00:26 +0000 admin 98677 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Conspiracy-laden, fire-prone icons: what will happen to LA’s palm trees? https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/conspiracy-laden-fire-prone-icons-what-will-happen-la-s-palm-trees <p>Many palm species in the city are receptive to embers, hard to extinguish – and probably helped spread the fires</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/conspiracy-laden-fire-prone-icons-what-will-happen-la-s-palm-trees" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:00:24 +0000 admin 98676 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Environmental activist steps back from the fight ‘disappointed’ by Labour so far https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/environmental-activist-steps-back-fight-disappointed-labour-so-far <p>Mark Avery to stand down from role with Wild Justice but won’t completely give up campaigning, he insists</p> <p>If government ministers and civil servants are grey squirrels, they may think they can rest easy – the predatory pine marten in the Westminster jungle is leaving them in peace.</p> <p>A campaigner who has “created a landscape of fear” over the authorities’ failure to protect nature is stepping back from <a href="https://wildjustice.org.uk/">Wild Justice</a> to spend more time with the wildlife – and grandchildren – in his garden.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/environmental-activist-steps-back-fight-disappointed-labour-so-far" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:45:45 +0000 admin 98678 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org I’m obsessed with icebreaking: I was trained not to hit anything – now I drive my ship into ice 24/7 https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/i-m-obsessed-icebreaking-i-was-trained-not-hit-anything-now-i-drive-my-ship-ice-247 <p>As the captain of a royal research ship, I break ice to get to British stations in the Antarctic. It’s great fun - but getting stuck is always a risk</p> <p>I have been working for the British Antarctic Survey since I was 19. I started icebreaking on my first trip to the Antarctic and got hooked. Now I am the captain of the royal research ship Sir David Attenborough and I find icebreaking addictive.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/i-m-obsessed-icebreaking-i-was-trained-not-hit-anything-now-i-drive-my-ship-ice-247" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:00:40 +0000 admin 98675 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org Rachel Reeves’s bid to expand Heathrow could add £40 to airline ticket https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rachel-reeves-s-bid-expand-heathrow-could-add-40-airline-ticket <p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Treasury analysis shows ticket prices expected to go up across board with no plans for frequent flyers to shoulder more of the cost</p> <p>Rachel Reeves’s bid to expand Heathrow airport could add £40 to the cost of an airline ticket, according to the Treasury’s own analysis.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rachel-reeves-s-bid-expand-heathrow-could-add-40-airline-ticket" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:00:36 +0000 admin 98673 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/awe-inspiring-and-harrowing-how-two-orcas-taste-liver-decimated-great-white-shark-capi <p>A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. But the gap they have left creates problems for other species</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/awe-inspiring-and-harrowing-how-two-orcas-taste-liver-decimated-great-white-shark-capi" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:00:35 +0000 admin 98674 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org ‘Rising star’: EU made more electricity from solar than coal in 2024 https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rising-star-eu-made-more-electricity-solar-coal-2024 <p>Report reveals solar power generated 11% of bloc’s electricity, surpassing coal at 10%</p> <p>More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition.</p> <p><a href="https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/breaking-wave/rising-star-eu-made-more-electricity-solar-coal-2024" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:01:25 +0000 admin 98672 at https://www.worldoceanobservatory.org