Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The Guardian view on protecting the Amazon: forest defenders must have support | Editorial

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:53:44 +0000

Dom Phillips’ posthumously published book is an urgent reminder of why this unique landscape matters so much

It doesn’t start for six months, but the build-up to the UN’s annual climate conference is already well under way in Brazil. Hosting the tens of thousands of delegates who make the trip is a big undertaking for any city. But the decision to host Cop30 in Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon river, has multiplied the complications.

Thousands of animal species threatened by climate change

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:11:42 +0000

A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom.

US oil firms pumping secret chemicals into ground and not fully reporting it

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:03:43 +0000

Study shows firms in Colorado, including Chevron, have pumped 30m lbs of chemicals in 18 months without meeting all disclosure rules

Colorado oil and gas companies have pumped at least 30m lbs of secret chemicals into the ground over the past 18 months without making legally required disclosures, according to a new analysis.

Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:00:03 +0000

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

Oil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.

Only strong action on emissions can restore economic stability, UN climate chief says

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:00:02 +0000

Simon Stiell says investors ‘ready to hit the go button’ if they have the right signals from governments

The climate crisis has raised the price of commodities and exacerbated famine – and only strong action on greenhouse gas emissions can restore economic stability, the UN’s climate chief has said.

Trump administration to allow work to continue on $5bn New York wind farm

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:32:03 +0000

Governor lobbied Trump in a series of phone calls, and will now allow new gas pipeline capacity to move forward

Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back | Oliver Haynes

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00:08 +0000

The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action

On 21 April 2019, I was on Waterloo Bridge in London with my younger siblings. Around us were planters full of flowers where there were once cars, and people singing. This was the spring iteration of Extinction Rebellion, when four bridges in London were held by protesters. My siblings, then 14, had been going out on school strike inspired by Greta Thunberg, and wanted to see her speak.

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:00:04 +0000

Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds

Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned. This scenario may unfold even if the average level of heating over the last decade of 1.2C continues into the future.

The loss of ice from the giant Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s due to the climate crisis and is now the principal driver of sea level rise.

Researchers puzzled as baby whales spotted in unexpected places along Australia’s ‘humpback highway’

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 08:34:33 +0000

Newborns seen in colder waters as far south as Tasmania, indicating breeding and migration more complex than thought

Baby humpback whales are turning up in unexpected places.

Video suggests capuchin monkeys ‘kidnap’ baby howler monkeys, scientists say

admin — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:25:26 +0000

It remains unclear why the monkeys, filmed on a Panamanian island, were taking the babies from another species

Scientists have spotted surprising evidence of what they describe as monkey kidnappings while reviewing video footage from a small Panamanian island. Capuchin monkeys were seen carrying at least 11 howler babies between 2022 and 2023.

“This was very much a shocking finding,” said Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioural ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany. “We’ve not seen anything like this in the animal kingdom.”