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Source: Visions of the Month- February 2016
You seriously have no idea how many more sharks are killed by people than people are killed by sharks.
Source: Popular Science
NASA confirms February 2016’s shocking global warming temperature record.
Meet the Couple Who Made Malibu, Then Lost the “Battle for Paradise”
Cáceres, who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her opposition to one of Central America’s biggest hydropower projects, was shot at home
Source: Berta Cáceres, Honduran human rights and environment activist, murdered
Forget the spread of ticks and mosquitos. Climate change could be responsible for bigger bites by drawing poisonous snakes northward into a band along the U.S. and Canadian border, as well as southward into wide swaths of South America.
Source: Snakes’ Expanding Habitat Could Bring Their Venom to Surprising Places
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I wasn’t expecting much from jazz bagpipe, but this is great.
Source: Jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1996)
The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational competition got underway at 8am (local time) today in monstrous waves at world-famous…
Source: Gladiators, Monster Waves | Quiksilver
Source: Yale Environment 360: Scientists find new large lizard species on remote Papua New Guinea island
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Source: Everyday Life in the Past : Photo
Source: The Reality of Touring Revenue From Someone Who Has Done It For 32 Years | The Trichordist
Italian photographer Davide Lopresti has been named Underwater photographer of the year 2016 for his stunning seahorse image titled Gold
Source: Underwater photographer of the year 2016 winners – in pictures
Source: January 2016 was Earth’s warmest month yet.
Two sea turtles have been saved from a not-so-great fate in Papua New Guinea after a man and his co-worker bought them from a local food market and released them back into the sea. Arron Culling and his co-worker Mark were behind the turtle’s rescue mission. They bought the turtles for $5
Source: Man Pays $50 For A Sea Turtle At The Market, Releases It Back Into The Sea
Chills and cross-steps along Montreal’s St. Lawrence River.
Source: Wave Stand Still | Surfer Magazine
At the end of January, Hamburg, the second biggest German city, introduced a new set of environmentally friendly recommendations through its “Guide for ecologically friendly supplying”.
Source: Hamburg, a green city – Surfrider
Source: Coral bleach impact – Fiji Times Online
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John Penlington reports on Australia’s surf culture, its impact on surf-lifesaving clubs and life in general.
Source: Surfing Story – 31 May 1964
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Source: AL ZMAN SAIB | Habibi Funk Records
Vultures wearing GoPros are patrolling Lima’s skies for polluters—and saving the city from itself
Source: From Zero to Hero
Scientists find that the world’s oceans are storing vastly more heat than before.
Source: This is where 90 percent of global warming is going – The Washington Post
Source: Holy shit: Scarfolk TV is coming | Dangerous Minds
The Beatles’ Revolution 9 brought experimental music to a global audience, but their radio soundworld wouldn’t have been possible without Stockhausen’s ‘music of the whole world’
Source: Crackle goes pop: how Stockhausen seduced the Beatles
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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.
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
Indigenous groups survive in isolation in Peru, including the Mascho Piro, who in recent months have begun reaching out. But some worry about the consequences: ‘If they live with us, they risk losing everything they ever knew’
Source: Why has this Amazonian tribe suddenly started to make contact with outsiders?
Experts highlight threat to lesser-known apes and mokeys from large-scale habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade
Source: More than half of the world’s primates on endangered species list
Climate Central has created an interactive, zip-searchable map of the U.S. to show the local consequences of high vs. low carbon emissions.
