The new, unelected government is reversing progressive measures by President Dilma Rousseff by taking over Indigenous land and attacking labor laws.

Source: Brazil Coup Govt Moves to Change Definition of Slavery | News | teleSUR English

Last week two activities were executed: The presentation of a booklet on penal environmental legislation, and the organization of an introductory course on environmental law.

Source: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Promotes Environmental Law in Galapagos – Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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In California today, a grand jury indicted the Plains All-American Pipeline and one of the oil company’s employees on criminal charges over the massive 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County.

Source: Texas oil firm indicted in massive 2015 oil spill off coast of Santa Barbara, CA

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Source: Put This On • The Miyuki-Zoku, 1964 David Marx posted this great…

Hardline tactics succeed in keeping outsiders away from Boyle Heights, the Latino community that is the last holdout to Los Angeles gentrification

Source: ‘Hope everyone pukes on your artisanal treats’: fighting gentrification, LA-style

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Fela Kuti’s jazzy, pre-Afrobeat party music

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Findings published on Tuesday are likely to replay a debate among climate scientists that started when a draft version of the paper came out last year.

Source: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries

The US coast guard spotted castaways stranded on remote island near Micronesia three days after their boat capsized in south Pacific ocean

Source: Three men rescued off deserted island after spelling ‘help’ with palm leaves

Eden Ahbez – 14 rare/unreleased recordings – Hippie #1 – Fully annotated, with never before seen pictures. Guest appearances by Paul Horn and Eartha Kitt

Source: Eden Ahbez – Wild Boy – The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez

I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jai…

Source: The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution — invironment — Medium

Flaws in Government’s Analysis of Offshore Fracking and Acidizing Exposed by Environmental Groups

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Scratches And Dents: Keeping Your Guitar Safe On The Road – MTT – Music Think Tank

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Manmade noise is everywhere—even 7 miles under the sea

Source: Mic Drop

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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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Coffee isn’t an ingredient that appears in too many tiki drinks, largely because most people associate coffee with a hot morning beverage and not a cool, fruity cocktail. But coffee is rich a…

Source: Coffee Break

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Luna plays popular music on a Korean traditional instrument called the gayageum.

Source: David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ played on the gayageum, an ancient Korean musical instrument

Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades

Source: Ghostly underwater images capture the third global coral-bleaching event in less than two decades

Color photos from Brazil seven decades ago, when the beautiful, troubled nation was enduring “growing pains” not dissimilar to what it’s going through today.

Source: Brazil in the Fifties: Portrait of a Beautiful, Troubled Country | TIME

A third global bleaching of coral reefs is underway following a massive and persistent underwater heatwave

Source: World’s oceans facing biggest coral die-off in history, scientists warn

They’re homing in on the gigantic Thwaites Glacier, which is bigger than Pennsylvania.

Source: Scientists declare an ‘urgent’ mission – study West Antarctica, and fast

Source: Near-Total Meltdown of Fukushima Reactor 2 Confirmed

The Kermadec ocean sanctuary, in the South Pacific and spanning 620,000 sq km, expands an existing reserve surrounding the Kermadec Islands

Source: New Zealand’s new ocean sanctuary will be one of world’s largest protected areas

Rio surfing event under way despite worries about sewage pollution

Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical to its social mission

Sorry, deniers—sea-level rise is accelerating, just like climate science predicts

The government is OK with a 75 percent chance of a major Arctic oil spill

Dutch solar road makes enough energy to power household

Polluted Rio de Janeiro beach ruled out for pro surfing competition

240 FPS: Short Film by Misfit Pictures

The Good Old Summertime: 1910

The surprising reason why Arctic warming could be worse than previously thought

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Brazilian surfer shot dead by off-duty police officer