Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:56:59 +0000

Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summit

Adelaide has lost out to Antalya to host next year’s Cop. My colleague Adam Morton, the Guardian Australia’s environment editor, has the account from Belém of what went down.

Ouch. From one perspective, Australia’s long-running bid to host the Cop31 UN climate conference next year has ended in clear failure.

Quebec lake breaks bank and empties out downstream – video

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:40:44 +0000

The reason for the disappearance of Lac Rouge in Quebec, Canada, is not confirmed, but the trigger may have been a combination of heavy rainfall and wildfires having rendered the surrounding soil more water-repellent.

Tree root systems allow for greater water retention, meaning soil is able to absorb more water as snow melts in spring. Nicolas Mainville, the conservation and climate director at Snap Quebec, said: 'Flying over the area reveals how huge swathes of forest have been completely removed by salvage logging and post-fire scarification.

Trump officials reveal plan to roll back regulations in Endangered Species Act

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:00:06 +0000

Experts fear plan, one of many attempts Trump’s made to dismantle wildlife protection, will speed up extinction crisis

The Trump administration presented a new plan to roll back regulations in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) on Wednesday, a move experts fear will accelerate the extinction crisis if adopted.

‘We can no longer predict the seasons’: why Indonesia’s coal mindset has to change

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:43:22 +0000

It’s a climate-vulnerable nation, while also being the world’s sixth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter. Global investment in climate action is vital

Raiders of the lobster pot: wily wolves learn to haul in Canadian crab traps

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:00:03 +0000

Researchers in British Columbia catch sea wolves in the act after placing camera to solve mystery of damaged traps

The clues read like something from mystery novel: crab traps, suspiciously hauled ashore by unseen hands, had been damaged by baffling teeth marks. The bait inside was missing.

The question for researchers in the remote corner of British Columbia was: whodunnit? As with many crimes of opportunity in the modern era, the culprit was unmasked by a remote camera.

Thousands of toxic sites across US face risk of coastal flooding

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:00:03 +0000

Study finds rising seas could flood facilities handling waste, sewage, and oil and gas – and coastal states most at risk

More than 5,500 toxic sites nationwide could face coastal flooding by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to new research.

The study, published on Thursday in Nature Communications and led by scientists at the University of California, warns that if heat-trapping pollution continues unabated, rising seas will flood a wide range of hazardous facilities including those handling sewage, toxic waste, oil and gas, as well as other industrial pollutants.

Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:00:02 +0000

Sussan Ley’s offer allows a clear path to pass laws to rewrite Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in final sitting week

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Australia’s failed bid to host Cop31 looks like a mess – but it may actually be the best result possible | Adam Morton

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:16:16 +0000

While the outcome is a let down for those who want Australia to do better on climate, Chris Bowen looks set to play a pivotal role in the UN talks

Ouch. From one perspective, Australia’s long-running bid to host the Cop31 UN climate conference next year has ended in clear failure.

Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines: how marine life thrives on dumped weapons

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:00:16 +0000

Scientists discover thousands of sea creatures have made their homes amid the detritus of abandoned second world war munitions off the coast of Germany

In the brackish waters off the German coast lies a wasteland of Nazi bombs, torpedo heads and mines. Thrown off barges at the end of the second world war and forgotten about, thousands of munitions have become matted together over the years. They form a rusting carpet on the shallow, muddy seafloor of the Bay of Lübeck in the western tip of the Baltic Sea.

Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Cop31

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:38:02 +0000

Australia had been pushing to host climate conference next year with south Pacific nations, which are increasingly threatened by rising seas and climate-fuelled disasters

Papua New Guinea has voiced frustration after Australia ditched a bid to co-host next year’s UN climate talks with its Pacific island neighbours.