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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
All images courtesy Joanna Bird Gallery unless otherwise noted As a child, Danish artist Steffen Dam loved poring over his grandparents’ collection of scientific books and cabinets of insects. This fascination of how we catalogue and understand the natural world followed through to his artisti
Source: Exquisite Marine Life Specimens Imagined in Glass by Steffen Dam
Nurtured by three generations of African Americans with a shared vision of economic self-empowerment, the patronage of black businesses, the cultivation of black arts, and the maintenance of a public commons for political discourse, Leimert Park is not just the crown jewel of black Los Angeles, it is its center.
Source: The Center Can Hold: Leimert Park and Black Los Angeles
Jeff Goldblum explains the Clean Power Plan to “reptilian nincompoops” (aka fossil fuel execs)
Source: Don’t Be Garbage People
… and don’t be a tool of garbage people, I’d like to add.
These 10 business leaders show how fighting climate change is good for everyone’s bottom line
Source: The onEarth 10
Dewey Weber’s 22nd Street Cutback Becomes History Written In Bronze – the Full Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5420ENg7o
The World’s First Utility-Scale Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage System. Located off Toronto Island, Canada, Hydrostor converts electricity into air and stores it underwater. When electricity is needed, the process is reversed, sending electricity back to the grid.
Source: Hydrostor
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Crab invasions, tropical visitors, and massive marine die-offs. What’s going on in the Pacific?
Source: Starved by the Sea?
Tracing Raymond Chandler’s early days in L.A.
Source: Looking for Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles : Longreads Blog
The chemical sprayed on the 2010 BP oil spill may not have helped crucial petroleum-munching microbes get rid of the slick, a new study suggests.
Source: Study: Dispersants did not help oil degrade in BP spill
The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth
Source: Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever | EcoInternet – Earth Blog
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The Global Wave Conference – The Global Enviro-Surf Community Converges on Cornwall & London
WASHINGTON (AP) — You can’t say we haven’t been warned. The upcoming climate summit in Paris is just the latest chapter in the surprisingly long history of grappling with global warming, a history that began with the discovery…
Source: Upcoming climate talks just latest chapter in a long history
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
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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
A great tract of Earth is on fire and threatened species are being driven out of their habitats. This is a crime against humanity and nature
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation
Source: Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth
‘Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,’ says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama
Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Come for the shipwrecks, stay for the ecological treasures
Source: Which Presidential candidates are climate change deniers? / Boing Boing
The Food / Beverage community provides an interactive environment to share breaking news and product information for professionals in pre-clinical drug development.
Source: Food / Beverage – The Online Scientific Community – News
[BreakingNews.ie] WHO are to warn about the cancer threat caused by eating processed meats.
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