Breaking Waves: Ocean News

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

See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here

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.

The acquisitions of a fortunate life have accumulated over the years. All must be culled while I have the wherewithal | Paul Daley

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:00:10 +0000

Do I really need to replace my telephone every two years? Could my next laptop be recycled rather than brand new?

I have an urgent desire to shed myself of goods and chattels.

The acquisitions of a fortunate life have accumulated like an overflowing email inbox and simply must be dealt with while I am alive, and not left to my children to wrangle when they’ll (hopefully, long down the track) be grieving.

Scientists just found a surprising twist in Earth’s extinction story

admin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:32:40 +0000

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have decreased since, with different drivers shaping past and present threats. Whereas invasive species once caused most island extinctions, habitat destruction now looms largest on continents.