A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.
Source: Ocean might swallow California sooner than you think – Orange County Register
Source: New Disney World dress shop is perfect for Disney-bounding
The fundamental unit of biology is not the self, but the network — and this view has practical consequences, says David George Haskell, author of The Song of Trees.
Source: David George Haskell Explores Life’s Network’s In ‘The Song of Trees’
Our planet’s temperature is rising, but there are things you can do to help.
Source: Climate Change List
Baxter Dynasty
Stopping global warming is only way to save Great Barrier Reef, scientists warn
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.
Takers. Of the free resources. Such as clean air. Takers of money, too. Same guys. Duh.
Source: Money to burn: As the wealthy get wealthier, carbon emissions grow in US states
California towns are winning David. v. Goliath battles with oil companies.
Source: Small California Towns Are Facing Off Against Oil Companies — And Winning | naked capitalism
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Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York
Source: Watch skateboard stunts on rooftops of New York / Boing Boing
Cutting Room: Cover Peripherals | The Surfers Journal
In President Trump’s America, Quentin Tarantino might not have been.
Source: What Does the NEA Fund? – 7 Famous Movies Funded by the NEA
Will Amazon Destroy More US Jobs Than China? | naked capitalism
Now we’ll know what the government thought about climate change when it still believed in it.
Source: You Can Now Access The EPA Website As It Existed Before Trump | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
Historical Series of Phenological data for Cherry Tree Flowering at Kyoto City(and March Mean Temperature Reconstructi
Source: Cherry blossom phenology and temperature reconstructions at Kyoto
A Message From the End of the World – The New York Times
Are we trashing the places we love? The toxic truths at the heart of surfing | Jock Serong
WannaSurf – Free illustrated atlas of surf spots and surfing worldwide with maps of surf spots, detailed descriptions and photos. All the best weather and forecast maps. An interactive environment provides messages, reports and data editing.
Source: Mozambique – WannaSurf, surf spots atlas, surfing photos, maps, GPS location
This is awesome! (be sure to watch the video)
Source: Dutch Trains Are World’s First to Run on 100% Wind Power
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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The Carbon Bubble is about to pop / Boing Boing
New Zealand river granted same legal rights as human being | World news | The Guardian
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
How to recycle coffee cups and why we should
From NYC to Topanga Canyon and Bondi Beach, this new book by surf culture blog Indoek offers a glimpse into the homes of surfing’s most creative minds
Climate change is a different prospect of calamity—not just elementally but morally different from nuclear exchange in a manner which has not been properly dealt with.
Source: The Slow Confiscation of Everything | Laurie Penny
Lost Continent Found Under Indian Ocean – The Daily Beast
Steve McQueen’s long missing ‘Bullitt’ Mustang found / Boing Boing
I pledge to stand in resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on America’s clean air, clean water, climate, wildlife, civil rights, reproductive rights, gender and racial equality, and freedom of speech and religion.
Source: Pledge of Resistance to Donald Trump’s Assault on America’s Environment, Democracy and Civil Rights
Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon
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Defend California from Federal and Civil Rights Rollbacks | NRDC
After the fires killed 11 and devastated vast swaths of land in January many are asking if subsidised timber plantations are to blame
Source: Did Pinochet-era deregulation cause Chile’s worst-ever wildfires? | World news | The Guardian
Mozambique Surf Guide | GoSurfAfrica
“Awful,” says writer and painter Ben Shattuck – but in the good way.
Source: What’s It Like to Be the Artist-in-Residence at America’s Least Visited National Park? | NRDC
Climate change: Apocalypse by 1000 cuts
“I’m glad I packed extra anti-depressants on this trip.” – Mark Cunningham
Source: Jack Johnson’s Film On Ocean Plastic Pollution | The Inertia
Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.
Source: How Surfing Was Brought to Santa Cruz By Three Teenage Hawaiian Princes
In a new film, famous Canadian designers from the ’60s and ’70s will finally get their due.
Source: Revisiting The Golden Age Of Canadian Graphic Design | Co.Design | business + design
Scientist leading ‘de-extinction’ effort says Harvard team just two years away from creating hybrid mammoth-elephant embryo
Source: Woolly mammoth on verge of resurrection, scientists reveal | Science | The Guardian
Global research group will trace Totten glacier’s history back to last ice age, in hope of predicting future melting patterns
Repeated bouts of warm weather could send Arctic sea ice to a record low winter peak as Antarctic sea ice sets an all-time record low.