Breaking Waves: Ocean News

The synthetic coffee revolution: are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?

admin — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:32:05 +0000

Your daily caffeine habit is not good for the planet. Thankfully, researchers are finding alternatives to ground coffee beans

Name: Synthetic coffee.

Age: Three.

Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader

admin — Mon, 06 May 2024 12:01:04 +0000

Exclusive: Mukhtar Babayev says clear accounting crucial to build trust as developing world seeks trillions in support

Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said.

Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil

admin — Mon, 06 May 2024 07:32:27 +0000

This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastating

Torrential rainstorms in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years, many deaths and the displacement of thousands of families. Central parts of the state were hit the hardest after the storms began last Monday, with unofficial weather stations in the area recording 50-100cm (20-40in) of rain over the past week.

Farmer confidence at lowest in England and Wales since survey began, NFU says

admin — Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:31 +0000

Union cites extreme wet weather and post-Brexit phasing-out of EU subsidies as main reasons for slump

Farmers’ confidence has hit its lowest level in at least 14 years, a long-running survey by the biggest farming union in Britain has found, with extreme weather and the post-Brexit phasing-out of EU subsidies blamed for the drop.

The National Farmers’ Union warned there had been a “collapse of confidence” and that the outlook was at its lowest since the annual poll of its members in England and Wales began in 2010.

Flooding death toll in south Brazil rises to 75 as over 100 people remain missing

admin — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:11:46 +0000

Officials in Rio Grande do Sul state say more than 80,000 have been displaced by record water levels

Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday.

The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking floods swept across the state, which borders Uruguay and Argentina.

‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence

admin — Sun, 05 May 2024 15:00:15 +0000

Audio collected with underwater microphones suggests numbers at least stable after centuries of industrial whaling left only a few hundred alive

UK installs record number of public electric vehicle chargers

admin — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:22:31 +0000

About 6,000 have been installed this year, a quarter of them rapid chargers that can power up a car in under an hour

The UK has installed a record number of public electric car chargers this year, as companies race to keep up with the growing number of battery vehicles on British roads.

Nearly 6,000 new chargers were installed during the first three months of 2024, according to quarterly figures from data company Zapmap published by the Department for Transport. About 1,500 of those were rapid chargers, capable of charging a car in less than an hour.

‘Why doesn’t anybody care?’ Texas-Mexico border devastated by anti-migrant operation

admin — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:00:12 +0000

Greg Abbott’s strategy to deter immigration isn’t just harming people and costing billions – it’s ruining the Rio Grande’s ecosystem

Strong-arm strategies by Texas along the US-Mexico border have eroded more than human rights for migrants seeking asylum in the US; they have degraded the environment – and now the destruction is escalating.

In the hotspot of Eagle Pass, environmental damage from years of expansion of anti-migration security measures can be seen everywhere.

Cop29 summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan

admin — Sun, 05 May 2024 06:00:05 +0000

Organisers of this year’s environmental conference hope cooperation on green issues could help ease global tensions

This year’s Cop29 UN climate summit will be the first “Cop of peace”, focusing on the prevention of future climate-fuelled conflicts and using international cooperation on green issues to help heal existing tensions, according to plans being drawn up by organisers.

‘It’s going to be messy’: advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boom

admin — Sat, 04 May 2024 20:00:50 +0000

‘Some negative projects will get up, but we have to keep our eyes on the broader goals’, says WWF Australia