Links for 8/9/25

Western Life Is Only One Way to Live

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed

Car tires are polluting the environment and killing salmon. A global plastics treaty could help

Millions of years of evolution could be wiped out on ‘Galapagos of the Indian Ocean,’ conservationists warn

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has found genocide occurred in Victoria. Here’s what it says needs to happen next

The “Dana Point Mafia”

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism (w/ Yanis Varoufakis) | The Chris Hedges Report

Bridgid Lally – “Let it Ride”

What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were so crazily high

Links for 8/3/25

Thomas Neuburger: Rethinking Collapse

Brian Wilson Obituary

New research shows surfers, swimmers and runners face higher risk of melanoma

Carbon-offset schemes aren’t prepared for forests to burn

Vinyl Minded With the Legends of Surf Guitar

The antidote to the Jaws effect: These photos show a softer side of great white sharks

George Carlin Talks About Anti-War Protests and the John Birch Society in a 1965 Stand-Up Routine

The Metals Company applied to the U.S. for a deep-sea mining license

I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

Modern Water Wars: Now Compete With Data Centres To Access Water

Geothermal energy potential could power US thousands of times over

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

Wendy Bearer Bull

The origin story of climate denial

Links for 7/20/25

Government Gives Elon Musk Permission to Detonate Rockets Over a Sacred Hawaian Island

Rethinking Ritual: The Shifting Landscapes of Sacred Space in East Polynesia

Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought

Pacific Island Nations Announce Plans for Indigenous-Led Melanesian Ocean Reserve, a World First

To Take Off and Ride a Wave

Jersey Shore town didn’t want mile-long flood wall. It just lost the money for Plan B.

Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education

Lessons from Killer Dana

Now Is the Time

Big Picture Stuff: The Earth is humming. Caused by ocean waves – here’s what it means.

How Colonialism Spawned and Continues to Exacerbate the Climate Crisis

Links for 7/6/25

How Danny Hess Crafts Wooden Surfboards

Scientists Used Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe, Then Paddled Across 140 Miles from Taiwan to Japan

Free tool helps dodge grant rejections as federal censorship expands

Surf

AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

Lost art of coconut shell navigation: How Pacific islanders crossed oceans

Chewing gum releases microplastics into saliva, study finds

Tech continues to be political

Lithium mine’s approval violates international rights agreement, says Human Rights Watch

Top Economist Exposes Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change

Capital will continue on its path, indifferent to the ruins it leaves

A brief history of the recycling lies told by the plastics industry

Sacred cultural site returned to Ohlone people

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Links for 6/9/25

Trump’s Dangerous Escalation in LA

The New Military Industry Complex

Lifeblood For Pacific Islands Threatened As Warming Ocean Drives Tuna East

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

Ominous sea level report card for most U.S. coastal communities

Organised Crime: A Top Driver of Global Deforestation

Greenland fossil discovery stuns and worries scientists: “Don’t buy a beach house”

NYC Gangs 1954

How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream

A Secretive Network Is Fighting Indigenous Rights in Australia and Canada, Expert Says

Indigenous-led organization breaks ground with revolutionary energy transition initiative: ‘It’s not a one size fits all’

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Links for 1/6/25

The Age of the Double Sell-Out

Colorado landfills generate as much dirty air as driving 1 million cars for a year

Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

New UCS Report Details Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of Deceit, Implications for Climate Accountability Lawsuits

How We Lost Our Focus (and why it should scare you)

How Hunter-Gatherer Kids Learn Lifelong Skills by Age Six

Revising the cost of climate change: Study yields projections ‘six times larger than previous estimates’

Taking an Internet Walk

Links for 5/30/25

Together for The Ocean

Teachers warn AI is impacting students’ critical thinking

New Caledonia bans ‘dangerous’ seabed mining for half a century

Greenwashing – the deceptive tactics behind environmental claims

Asia-Pacific Climate Change Impact Assessed in UN Economic Survey

84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

State of the Climate 2024

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes

The King Pins of Albuquerque, NM