Breaking Waves: Ocean News

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 Canada’s Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago, plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided friends and families

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.

Is it possible to find a sensible centre on climate change? | Fiona Katauskas

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:00:14 +0000

Murray Watt seems to think so

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Biodiversity is in catastrophic decline. Here are three ways to ensure Australia’s conservation law actually works | Atticus Fleming and Andrew Macintosh

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 01:00:13 +0000

The highest priority must be to ensure land-clearing is properly regulated to save our native forests

UN chief António Guterres: 'We don't want to see the Amazon become a savannah' - video

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:53:23 +0000

UN secretary general António Guterres speaks to the Guardian and Sumaúma about the 'failure' of the Cop process to limit global heating to 1.5C, that overshooting is now 'inevitable', and why defending the rights of indigenous communities should be a top priority for global leaders

Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:13 +0000

Peers say ‘woeful’ record on prosecutions has led to a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ criminal culture

Organised crime groups in the UK are making millions every year from illegally dumping and burning rubbish, peers have told ministers, after an inquiry found a lack of enforcement made it a “low-risk, high-reward” criminal enterprise.

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:12 +0000

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?

Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.

Experts say Ed Miliband’s £1.1bn for new offshore wind projects not enough

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:09:43 +0000

One energy industry source says they expected an annual budget as high as £2bn to meet UK’s green energy targets

The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has set aside £1.1bn a year for offshore wind power developers investing in new projects in a funding round seen by some in the industry as too small to meet the UK’s green electricity targets.

Two crucial Florida coral species left ‘functionally extinct’ by ocean heatwave

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:52:53 +0000

Climate crisis drives near-total collapse of staghorn and elkhorn corals that formed backbone to state’s reefs

Two of the most important coral species that made up Florida’s reef are now functionally extinct after a withering ocean heatwave caused catastrophic losses, scientists have found.

The near-total collapse of the corals that once formed the backbone of reefs in Florida and the Caribbean means they can no longer play their previously crucial role in building and sustaining reef ecosystems that host a variety of marine life.