Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Burnham hails approval for two huge windfarm projects as ‘power under British control’ – UK politics live

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:16:34 +0000

Announcement comes ahead of visit to Cop31 climate conference with PM also set to face MPs at PMQs

The national security of all countries is at risk from the climate crisis, as “science fiction” scenarios of widespread destruction are already coming true and economic shocks from fossil fuels are now the norm rather than the exception, Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, will warn at the Cop31 summit today. Fiona Harvey has the story.

Ed Miliband says national security of all countries at risk from climate crisis

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:09:47 +0000

Exclusive: UK foreign secretary to tell world leaders at Cop31 summit that sci-fi scenarios of destruction ‘now regular occurrences’

Bird flu has caused catastrophic die-offs – could a wave of extinctions follow?

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:00:35 +0000

As the IUCN global conservation body prepares to update its red list of endangered species, scientists explain why calculating the true toll of a pandemic is so hard

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

If you haven’t guessed already, I’m at the opening ceremony with my colleague Oliver Milman. We were rushed from a staging area to the plenary room by a UN police officer and I broke into a slight jog.

The “Legendary Dance Show: Fire of Anatolia” is, we think, coming to an end. It was very good. A gentleman who I assume is the choreographer is up front taking some plaudits.

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.