Ghost nets: the remote town turning death-trap debris into world-class art | Art and design
The escapist history of tiki bars — and why this cocktail trend will never go away
Skateboarding’s ascent to the Summer Olympic Games in 2020 may have finally established it as a legitimate sport, but it’s had a plentiful share of trials of tribulations.
Sounds Of The Unexpected by Various Artists (Fun Time) on Ace Records
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Monika Pon-Su-San passed away on the 14th June from natural causes in Johannesburg. She was 86. In 1952 she met the Russian artist, Vladimir Tretchikoff, while she was working at her …
Source: Tretchikoff’s “Chinese Lady” Monika Pon-Su-San has passed – The South African Art Times
Source: Immerse yourself in the very strange world of wonderfully weird (and rare) records | Dangerous Minds
What its like to be a marine conservationist – The i newspaper online iNews
Update on the Sacred Headwaters Project so Far in 2017 | Pachamama Alliance
Source: Environmentally Friendly Can Collar – Ambalaj
How to Throw a Tiki Party | Tasting Table
Video: Friday Morning – Toots, One Session
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Climate change is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic | Informed Comment
The last known Tasmanian tiger died more than eight decades ago. It has become the stuff of textbook sketches and yellowing photographs. But now, researchers are launching a new search.
Source: Back From The Dead? Reported Sightings Fuel Hope For Return Of Tasmanian Tigers : The Two-Way : NPR
Hundreds of millions of salmon are presumed dead along the US west coast amid fears that ocean life is being wiped out following the Fukushima disaster.
Source: Hundreds Of Millions Of Salmon Feared Dead On US West Coast – Your News Wire
Trump presidency opens door to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments | Environment | The Guardian
One company wants to turn pollution into shelter.
Source: Can Ocean Plastics Make Homes For The Poor? | Popular Science
Source: Incredible Afrobeat music from Mali / Boing Boing
The Angkor Wat alternative: exploring Cambodia’s forgotten ruins | Travel | The Guardian
The Ruins of the Unsustainable
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American Whoa: The American Pro Jazzmaster’s Peculiar Pickups | Mike & Mikes Guitar Bar
American jazz guitarists,” Ray admits of only one rival—Parisian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom Emmett worships, obviously patterns himself after, and can’t stand to see in person without fainting dead away.
The Carbon Bubble is about to pop / Boing Boing
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being | World news | The Guardian
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The health of the Great Barrier Reef has entered “uncharted territory” after researchers found there had been mass coral bleaching for two summers in a row for the first time in history.
Source: Great Barrier Reef suffers historic ‘back-to-back’ mass coral bleaching – 9news.com.au
In India, 6,000 tonnes of plastic waste lies uncollected every day. Some of this washes up in Tamil Nadu state where it pollutes and contaminates the food and water of communities living along the Bay of Bengal
Source: Plastic pollution blights Bay of Bengal – in pictures | Global development | The Guardian
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Mozambique Surfing travel guide Mozambique surf spot + forum for surfing in Mozambique
It seems to me as if prophecies of Trump have been built into the culture, perhaps by the aliens who seeded us on Earth
Source: Full of nuts, watching a 70s western, I saw America’s future… | Stewart Lee | Opinion | The Guardian
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Classic Surf Vehicles Set To Make a Big Splash At Kingscliff
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Wahtiki Island Lounge in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China | Critiki
Iraq Museum takes unusual step of allowing objects to leave country to show their significance amid Isis’s ‘nihilistic’ destruction
The ocean is going to be significantly higher than previously understood, according to the latest national assessment of sea level rise.Will President Trump and his appointees roll back policies to address the impacts of climate change—like sea level rise.
Source: As Seas Rise, How Far Will Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda Go? | NRDC
Thousands rally across the country to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline as two city councils have voted to divest billions from the project
Source: Billions Divested from Banks Backing Dakota Access Pipeline
Underground city made from old opal mines has 3,500 residents
Oil may be a big reason behind the Trump Administration’s aggressive stance towards China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council works to safeguard the earth – its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Source: California Aims to Plug In Almost Everything That Moves | NRDC
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The Latin soul craze that hit New York 50 years ago only lasted a few years, but its effects still linger – Oliver Wang takes a look at the defining songs of the scene
Source: We like it like that: the songs that defined New York Citys boogaloo craze | Music | The Guardian
Rex Tillerson dodges question about who knew what when at ExxonMobil about company’s history of promoting and funding climate science denial, as state AG probes continue.
Global sea ice levels are at their lowest in recorded history, according to new statistics from the U.S. National Snow & Ice Data Center.In the Arctic, the loss is due to climate change and extreme weather events that are likely influenced by global warming, while the changes in the Antarctic may be attributed to natural variability, the center said.
Source: Global Sea Ice Hits Lowest Levels ‘Probably in Millenia’
Make driving safer by replacing air bags with daggers that stab you in the heart
Many researchers previously argued that giant animals became extinct soon after the arrival of the First Australians