Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Cop31 live: World leaders to speak at climate crisis summit

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:27:17 +0000

Third day of UN talks begin but leaders of many big polluting nations absent

Solving the climate crisis is hard but even getting to the venue to discuss it has become a challenge here in Antalya. Snarled roads and packed trams left people waiting for hours in traffic and lines yesterday and there was widespread horror at the prospect of an even worse situation this morning with the arrival of world leaders.

Back of the net! Scotland’s historic salmon fishers – in pictures

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:00:33 +0000

Colin McPherson has spent three decades working on Catching the Tide, his moving portrayal of fishers and an old way of life that is dying out

Developing countries in limbo as rich nations delay new climate finance plans

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:00:32 +0000

Many governments are yet to set targets, leaving recipient countries struggling to plan and attract private investment

Developing countries have been left in limbo by the failure of some of the world’s biggest economies to flesh out their plans for new climate finance.

Poor countries are supposed to receive $300bn a year from the governments of industrialised nations by 2035, along with about $1tn from other sources, to help them cope with the effects of extreme weather and shift to a low-carbon future.

Why are Britain's streets still so polluted? Because the car industry dinosaurs do what they like, and politicians let them | George Monbiot

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 06:00:31 +0000

The transition to electric vehicles should be moving apace, but it is not. And why? Incompetence, expedience and cowardice

Thousands of rare wildflowers rescued from eroding Scottish coast

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:00:32 +0000

Conservationists relocate 3,400 one-flowered wintergreens, a species estimated to have lost more than half its UK population in the past 50 years

Thousands of one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers have been moved to safety from an eroding Scottish shoreline where they were at risk of falling into the sea.

Conservationists rescued 3,400 one-flowered wintergreen plants at Culbin Forest in Moray, in an effort to protect a species estimated to have lost more than half its UK population in the past 50 years.

Jimmy Carter’s Georgia farm acquired by conservation group planning to open it to public

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:01:41 +0000

Conservation group acquires former US president’s family farm with plans to transfer it to the state in 2028

Jimmy Carter’s family farm has been acquired by a group dedicated to permanently protecting the south-west Georgia land where the late former president’s conservation ethic took hold, officials announced on Monday.

This small Alaska town is swamped by cruise ship visitors every summer. But what happens when they all go home?

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:00:52 +0000

Skagway’s 1,100 permanent residents are caught between a boom time – when the ships bring more than a million tourists – and a lull in winter

October comes to the small Alaska coastal town of Skagway like a sigh. The shops that were bustling throughout the crazed tourist season are reducing their opening hours or beginning to close. The hordes of employees sleeping in overcrowded bunkhouses are leaving or have left.

US and rest of world must follow China’s lead on green energy, says John Kerry

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:08:23 +0000

Former US secretary of state says most nations are ‘stumbling along’ while Beijing has ‘hugely accelerated’

Cop31 live – latest updates

Cop31 as it happened: ‘Everything and everyone we love is at stake,’ Greta Thunberg warns

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:57:12 +0000

Host Turkey celebrates new oilfields as UN climate summit prepares to host world leaders from more than 90 countries

We’ve just heard from Patricia Espinosa, the former UN climate boss (succeeded by Simon Stiell) and now we are hearing from former US secretary of state and climate ambassador, John Kerry.

Kerry has congratulated Brazil for keeping the fossil fuel transition issue alive, and the room has erupted in cheers.

Tuesday briefing: The world is falling short on climate action. Can Cop31 change that?

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 06:45:39 +0000

In today’s newsletter: As global leaders gather in Turkey for the UN climate summit, both doubts and hope surround what the annual talks can achieve

Good morning. After another year of unprecedented droughts, floods and wildfires driven by human-caused global heating, 91 heads of government will meet tomorrow in Turkey to discuss the climate crisis. They will do so against a backdrop of global instability and conflict.