Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Australian engineers invent anti-fatberg coating to tackle sticky sewer problem

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 04:08:03 +0000

Zinc and polyurethane product could stop dangerous blockages in concrete wastewater pipes – but is a few years off commercial use

Pint-sized crustacean named after New Zealand brewery to boost interest in marine life

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 01:36:57 +0000

Tiny isopod is dubbed Pentaceration forkandbrewer in push to engage community with climate-threatened life in local waters

New Zealand scientists have named a tiny snowflake-like crustacean after a Wellington brewery, in an attempt to boost the public’s interest in local marine life.

The roughly 1.5mm marine isopod was found in the silty depths off New Zealand’s southern east coast. It helps decompose organic material that drifts to the seabed.

Australia urged to increase climate goal after UK announces ambitious 81% reduction target

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:30:56 +0000

One expert says climate targets can seem abstract but matter because they serve as an ‘investment signal’ to cashed up investors

Marine biologists discover new sea slug species off Pacific coast

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:45:33 +0000

California researchers found ‘mystery mollusc’ in deep-sea midnight zone after initially observing it 20 years ago

Researchers in California have discovered a new species of sea slug off the Pacific coast in an area of deep sea known as the midnight zone.

Barbados PM asks Donald Trump for face-to-face meeting on climate

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:00:49 +0000

Exclusive: Mia Mottley, who has championed climate action, says she would seek common ground with US president-elect

Mia Mottley, the climate-championing prime minister of Barbados, has invited Donald Trump to a face-to-face meeting where she would seek “common ground” and persuade him that climate action was in his own interests.

Argentina withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:04:59 +0000

Move adds to concerns about the stability of the Paris agreement after the election in the US of Donald Trump

Cop29 climate summit – live updates

Argentinian negotiators representing the government of the climate science denier Javier Milei have been ordered to withdraw from the Cop29 summit after only three days, adding to concerns about the stability of the Paris agreement.

Author Katherine Rundell donates royalties to climate charities in Trump protest

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:51:40 +0000

Royalties earned from The Golden Mole, published in the US this week as Vanishing Treasures, will be given towards counteracting ‘the election of a climate-change denier’

British author Katherine Rundell will give all the royalties from one of her books to climate charities in response to the re-election of Donald Trump.

Trump victory raises risk of investing in offshore wind projects, says RWE

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:44:10 +0000

German energy firm shaves €3bn from spending plans for next financial year to €7bn

A German energy firm has said that Donald Trump’s election victory has increased the risks of investing in offshore wind projects – but his return to the White House could help bolster Britain’s renewables sector, according to UK developer SSE.

Germany’s RWE has cut its spending plans and warned that, as a result of the US election, “the risks for offshore wind projects have increased”.

Schools closed and people evacuated as torrential rain returns in Spain

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:39:00 +0000

Large parts of east and south under alerts as schools are shut and riverside neighbourhoods evacuated in Andalucía

PFAS may be contaminating drinking water for up to 27% of Americans – study

admin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:54 +0000

Of 140 million people in the US who draw water from US aquifers via private or public wells, 70% at risk

PFAS may be contaminating drinking water for up to 70% of about 140 million people in the US who draw water from the nation’s aquifers via private or public wells, a new federal government study estimates. The findings show a potential impact on about 95 million people, or 27% of the nation’s population.