Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:54:45 +0000

Jamaica’s government says it has done all it can to prepare for strongest hurricane in country since records began

Hurricane Melissa – latest updates

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, where sheltering residents braced themselves for ferocious winds, flash flooding and landslides from the category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history.

Hurricane Melissa: a visual guide to Jamaica’s strongest storm since 1851

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:43:04 +0000

Slow-moving giant about to make landfall and will linger over the island before slamming into Cuba

Hurricane Melissa – latest updates

Hurricane Melissa is close to hitting Jamaica as a catastrophic category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since record-keeping began in 1851.

Bill Gates calls for climate fight to shift focus from global heating to ‘improving lives’

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:26:04 +0000

Billionaire’s statement comes a day after UN said humanity missed 1.5C climate target

Bill Gates has called for a “strategic pivot” in the effort against the climate crisis, writing that the world should shift away from trying to limit rising temperatures to instead focusing on efforts to prevent disease and poverty.

Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:04:17 +0000

Exclusive: Firms say added costs would mean they are unable to install enough turbines to meet green energy goals

Offshore windfarm companies may be exempted from new UK nature rules in an attempt to keep down the cost of renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.

The energy firms have said they would be unable to build the vast number of turbines required to meet the government’s green electricity goals if they have to meet new rules for nationally significant infrastructure projects (Nsips).

‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:00:39 +0000

Exclusive: Briefing by conservative think-tank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee

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Pakistani farmers to sue German polluters over climate-linked flood damage

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:00:36 +0000

Claimants seek compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials after extreme flooding destroyed harvests

A group of Pakistani farmers whose livelihoods were devastated by floods three years ago has fired the starting shot in legal action against two of Germany’s most polluting companies.

Lawyers acting for 43 men and women from the Sindh region sent the energy firm RWE and the cement producer Heidelberg formal letters before action on Tuesday warning of their intention to sue later this year.

‘Trump doesn’t represent us’: US activist groups to push for climate action at Cop30 in Brazil

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:34 +0000

US groups aim to represent country at UN climate summit even as Trump administration declines to send a delegation

How do you move a village? Residents of France’s last outpost in North America try to outrun the sea

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:33 +0000

As rising tides eat away at the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents

Franck Detcheverry, Miquelon’s 41-year-old mayor, trudges up a grassy hill. “The view isn’t too bad, huh?” he jokes. The ocean sparkles 40 metres below the empty mound. The sound of a man playing the bagpipes, as if serenading the sea, floats up from the shoreline. This hill will be the location of his new home and those of all his fellow villagers.

Expanded state powers on fossil fuel projects and water ‘betrayal’ of Australians, nature law critics say

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:09:46 +0000

Extracts of planned changes to the EPBC Act prompt ‘anger’ from conservation organisations that fear nature protection will be weakened

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Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:00:19 +0000

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010, a study has found.

Users of gas have been among the biggest beneficiaries, the research suggested.