Links for 9/9/23

The Black Cloud + audio book

Die schwarze Wolke

‘They Will Never Change on Their Own’: Top Oil Giants Have No Serious Plans to Curb Emissions

‘Pulp Fiction’ music consultants open up about the friendship, mixtapes that helped start a soundtrack revolution

Is the Gulf Stream collapsing?

Australian authorities warn locals to stay away from the mysterious metal cylinder on the beach

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Reparations for climate change? Some think oil companies should pay

Meet the ‘gummy squirrel’ and thousands of other newly discovered deep-sea species – in pictures

Tiki Mugs at Mount Longboards (New Zealand)

Finding the First Americans

Links for 8/11/23

Graph reveals terrifying trend of Antarctic sea ice loss

A global surge of heat

Artist’s reconstruction of the Round city of Baghdad

The Mercury is Off the Charts

Insurer cites “growing catastrophe exposure” as it stops new sales in California

New Zealand’s warming seas threaten M?ori food sources relied on for generations

Like fast fashion, ‘fast furniture’ is a problem for our planet

Draper’s Millions: The Philanthropic Wellspring of Modern Race Science

Only love can stop war: a Northern Cheyenne chief’s call to the world

Links for 8/3/23

Effects of “Unprecedented” Marine Heat Waves May Be Irreversible

Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation.

There are thousands of tonnes of methane emissions being released by melting glaciers: study

Beautiful Beirut before Bombed-Out Buildings were part of the Scenery

The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!

Concern over Loch Ness low water levels amid UK dry spell

Depression Era Beach Hangs With Dick Metz And Shirley Temple

Links for 7/15/23

Climate Denialism Has Burnt To a Crisp

Who is responsible for the climate crisis?

The biggest gold rush in history is about to start in the deep sea – leaving devastation in its wake

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity

‘The Job Is Going to Die’: Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry

Classic Instrumental Surf Music Timeline – Surf’s First Wave

Shifted Banks | Slade Lawrence

Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate

Infants Exposed to Excessive Screen Time Show Differences in Brain Function Beyond Eight Years of Age

Step Back in Time: The Forgotten Family Shoe Store Closed for 40 Years

Links for 7/9/23

Ray’s Hand

Life in the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ could disappear due to the climate crisis

Loveletters Season 10: Hawaii | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding

Video: Lola Mignot: “Deplacer le Silence”

RFKjr’s anti-vax efforts had a devastating effect on Samoa

Earth’s Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh Right Now, And That’s a Big Problem

A couple’s quixotic quest to save their drowning island – one rock at a time

Ever-Deepening Vortex of Collapse in Earth’s Ecological Systems

Links for 6/25/23

Manhattan Beach, California, 1950s

The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

Vicious Accelerating Feedbacks Between Far Right Politics and Climate Catastrophe

Rich people must allow access to a public beach

George Monbiot’s Regenesis — you won’t think about dinner the same way again

D-Day’s Historic Beaches Face a New Onslaught: Rising Seas

What Happens When You Tax Billionaires at 90 Percent?

‘High amounts’ of flesh-eating bacteria and ocean plastics create ‘perfect pathogen storm’ in Florida seaweed

Why The IndieWeb?

Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040, UN says

Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore – “Superthunderstingcar”