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Surfers yesterday described Donald Trump’s €10m rock barrier plan to protect his golf resort at Doonbeg as ‘heavy-handed’.
Source: Surfers say Donald Trump’s €10m Doonbeg rock-barrier plan is heavy-handed | Irish Examiner
And hardly anybody dies while taking a selfie.
Source: More people are killed by tourist brochures than by sharks — Medium
Fatboy’s $250 “picnic lounge” is a 9’x 7?, weather-resistant, picnic/beach blanket with a built-in pocket (inside the Fatboy logo-tag). (via Geekologie)
Source: Picnic/beach blanket that looks like a knotted rug / Boing Boing
Prof Antonella Sorace says children should be encouraged to learn less common languages to prevent them from dying out
Source: Preserve rare languages to spread benefits of multilingualism, says expert | Science | The Guardian
It started with an email from a source at Interpol. The subject line of the email said: “Brace yourself.” Attached to the email was a video that showed four men at sea, swimming frantic…
Source: A Murder at Sea. Caught on Camera. Will Anyone Investigate?
Though remains of 19 bodies were found at dump, investigators said no physical evidence supports attorney general’s claim that students were incinerated there
Uncontacted Tribes
More than NZ$1.4m raised so far to protect stretch of coastline in Abel Tasman national park from becoming out of bounds to the public
Located in the waters off Sipadan in Malaysia, is an old oil rig that is now a dive platform and resort named ‘Seaventures‘. The surrounding area is one of the diving industry’s renowned top dive destinations, and is commonly ranked as being one of the world’s best. Seaventures takes advantage o
Source: You Can Stay At This Converted Oil Rig In Malaysia And Go Diving
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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images
Source: Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: Young Salts: 1900 high-resolution photo
Here are 10 things that you probably don’t know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late
Source: Michael Moore: 10 Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy, But I Will
Christopher Ulman is the four-time national and international whistling champion. Among other tricks, he does not kiss anyone 24 hours before a performance because kissing “makes your lips mu…
Source: Listen to the best whistler in the world
This has been a remarkable year for the oceans. Marine scientist Douglas McCauley presents his list of 2015’s most significant ocean events.
Source: 2015’s top 10 developments for the ocean
Following on from our Sidewalk Surfers post in March 2012 we now go back to the very beginnings of the skateboarding scene with a short 1965 Palme d’Or winning film called Skaterdater. We’ll leave you to guess what the film was about but there are two big clues in the title. This was the first [&hellip
Source: Skaterdater – 1965 Short Film – Voices of East Anglia
The legislature has been ducking the issue of beach access since time immemorial, but a recent court decision forces the legislators to face the issue
Source: Court decision muddies the waters on beach access; legislators must clear it up | Mulshine
“Acapulco, 1961.” Our third and final visit with the cast of this short-lived NBC detective series starring James Coburn and Ralph Taeger. 4×5 negative from the Shorpy Publicity Department archive.
Source: Low Tide: 1961
What Is No Pop And Why I Will Use This Tag On All Future Releases
Source: What Is No Pop And Why I Will Use This Tag On All Future Releases – MTT – Music Think Tank
Two days after #COP21 agreement, India says it’s still planning to double its coal output
Source: India still plans to double its coal output by 2020.
The coming energy crunch will lead to volatile prices and an overall long-term economic contraction…A new type of institution is needed to handle non-debt finance. It should help promoters plan their projects and then find outside investor-partners in return for a share of each project’s income rather than its profits. <div class=
Source: The Mondragon bank – an old model for a new type of finance
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Opponents of $250m project on island Barbuda say the government is trampling on citizens’ rights by approving project under new celebrity-incentive law
Source: Robert De Niro’s plan for Caribbean mega-resort opposed by island residents
Bruce’s Beach and the Inkwell served as sites of leisure, agency, community, and controversy, and demonstrate the complex racial history of the Golden State.
Source: Fighting for Leisure: African Americans, Beaches, and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century L.A.
Come explore these corals in 3D (no SCUBA certification required)
Source: Corals, Now Playing in 3D
Millions of people around the world live in “energy poverty,” including 15-year-old Hannah Herbst’s pen pal in Ethiopia.
Source: This Ninth Grader Invented A Device That Harvests Power From Ocean Waves
In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story
Source: Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
…an area roughly the size of Maryland—drifted into the Caribbean. So much of this floating brown algae has been washing ashore that beaches are positively blanketed in stinky, rotting piles that are more than a few feet deep.
Source: Formerly pristine Caribbean beaches are blanketed in stinky, rotting piles of seaweed
George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate
German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides a speed run display on a massive wave at Praia do Norté in Portugal on Tuesday
Source: German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rides huge wave in Portugal – video | Sport | The Guardian
Source: Giant sculptures made entirely of beach waste to make you rethink plastic use
Thousands of the fires raging through the forests of Indonesia were deliberately started to clear land for industrial use. The results have been deadly
https://vimeo.com/44647548
It’s our time to act. Boldly and bravely. It starts with 24 Hours of Reality: The World Is Watching. 24hoursofreality.org #WhyImWatching
Source: 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching | Climate Reality
The findings follow a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study two weeks ago that said the world is in the midst of a third global coral bleaching event.
Source: How we are all contributing to the destruction of coral reefs: Sunscreen – The Washington Post
