California to consider buying back private beachfront properties

The unexpected benefits of surfing

Beaver believers: Native Americans promote resurgence of ‘nature’s engineers’

Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade

Smile for the camera: the dark side of China’s emotion-recognition tech

Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century

6 Echo Chambers That Shaped the Sound of Pop Music

China is scaling up its weather modification programme – here’s why we should be worried

Music historian delves into LA’s rich jazz scene and how clubs were an ‘oasis from racism’

L.A.’s coast was once a DDT dumping ground.

Sir Lancelot – The Defenders of Stalingrad [Trinidad, Calypso] (1940s)

The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys

One marine animal causes more death and serious injuries than sharks, sea snakes, and stingrays combined

Ski Nomad: 1959

strobeck effect

Not waving, drowning . . .

Bali’s beaches buried in tide of plastic rubbish during monsoon season

Ocean’s Nastiest Stings and How to Deal with Them

The Fender Jaguar: A Short History

‘An Archaeological Emergency’: Artifacts Are Emerging From Melting Alpine Glaciers

A thousand teardrops: how doo-wop kickstarted Jamaica’s pop revolution

Flash Cadillac – Colorado Music Experience

‘New climate denialism’ is stopping Canada from approaching crisis with WWII-level effort: Seth Klein

Tiny Atlantic island takes giant leap towards protecting world’s oceans

Surf’s Up! Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition at SFO Museum

“All Quiet on the Surfie-Rocker Front” – cinema newsreel from 1963

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Nature Boy – Don Reed & Orchestra

Abba’s Dancing Queen played on a fairground organ

Future Tents: 1959

Water Lightning: The Mysterious Polynesian Navigation Method Known as ‘Te Lapa’ – ‘The Flashing’ – The Daily Grail

Geeking out on the Astronauts!

The Doors Light My Fire at ‘Malibu U’ 1967

From Our Nånas For Our Nenis | EP. 1| Finding Our Why

1900 – Biarritz Tourisme à la plage (Remastered 4K 60 fps)

Will ignorants invest in fossil fuel AND geo engineering – forming a death spiral?

Monbiot: Our Dying Coastlines

Narrated by Morgan Freeman

Surfer magazine, iconic touchstone of Southern California beach culture, shuts down

More than 14m tonnes of plastic believed to be at the bottom of the ocean

Mondragon Cooperative Part One

Dave Bunker Solo on the “Touch Guitar”

Indigenous Americans had contact with Polynesians 800 years ago, DNA reveals

Carol Kaye: the Boss of the Bass Guitar

Exotic Aquatic Dances – Thedonizetti

The Human Error Darwin Inspired

American Bandstand – November 11, 1967 – Full Episode

I’m Living Through the Apocalyptic Vibes on the U.S. West Coast

Maker’s Marks: How a Mysterious Phone Call Led To the Discovery of Ray Butts’ Pickup-tester Guitar

Shark Patrol 1964 Music also used in The Endless Summer

How a lost surfboard floated from Hawaii to the Philippines

Max Crook (Del Shannon’s keyboard player on Runaway)

Get Organised – Keyboard Adverts

Surfing Waikiki with my Girlfriend

Countries are smaller and bigger than we were lead to believe.

Massive ‘Darth Vader’ sea bug pulled from waters near Indonesia

The 1876 Map of the World’s Ecozones That Still Holds Up