Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:00:31 +0000

The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence

‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the Philippines – in pictures

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:00:31 +0000

The Philippines is one of the countries most at risk of the climate emergency due to its low-lying island geography. With sea temperatures rising, the country deals with increasingly frequent and intense typhoons, rising sea-levels that threaten coastal communities, and changing rainfall patterns that disrupt agriculture. The country is one of the smallest contributors to climate change but one of the places most affected by its impacts.

‘Culture cringe’: experts dismiss Coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading Cop31 negotiations

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 02:53:47 +0000

Opposition claims key diplomatic role at next year’s conference in Turkey would make Bowen a ‘part-time minister’ while Australians face inflated energy prices

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How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion? | Bill Hare

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:44:02 +0000

Getting to net zero CO2 emissions globally means we can halt global warming. This requires a rapid phase-out. It’s physics

Taskforce calls for UK nuclear regulation reset to speed construction

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:01:21 +0000

Panel’s final report outlines planning and environmental changes to get plants built faster and cheaper

A government taskforce has finalised its plans to speed up and lower the cost of rolling out a new generation of nuclear reactors by streamlining UK regulation.

The nuclear regulatory taskforce was set up by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, in February after the government promised to rip up “archaic rules” and slash regulations to “get Britain building”.

We delivered a clear message at Cop30: the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight | Ed Miliband

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:57:20 +0000

For all its flaws, the Brazil conference underlined the wish by a global majority for clean energy and climate action – and the UK will keep leading the way

Ed Miliband is the secretary of state for energy security and net zero

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:46:36 +0000

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief

The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal.

Labor pledges to pass long-awaited nature laws this week as Greens demand more concessions

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:00:16 +0000

The government has offered to make changes to the bill to both the Greens and the Liberals hoping to reach a deal on legislation that can pass the Senate

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‘We’ve got to find answers’: Corby families affected by cancer searching for truth about toxic waste sites

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:04 +0000

Alison Gaffney believes her son’s rare leukaemia was caused by dumped toxic waste from the town’s steelworks

Alison Gaffney and Andy Hinde received the devastating news that their 17-month-old son, Fraser, had a rare type of leukaemia in 2018.

Two years of gruelling treatment followed, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy, before a stem cell transplant. Fraser, then aged three, made a “miraculous recovery” from the surgery, before doctors declared the cancer in remission.

How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:00:03 +0000

Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade

In the next few years, spades could be in the ground for a city made of wood, in the middle of the largest new nature reserve created in England in decades, with four-bedroom homes on sale for £350,000.