Links for 10/10/15

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


 

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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

Pacific Ocean Now Dead From Fukushima Radiation

A professional diver took inventory of 200km of Canada’s west coast.


(video has since been removed)

Update
The assumption, made in the video, that this dramatic development was caused by the nuclear desaster in Fukushima is not scientifically founded, or so says Motherload – The Pacific Ocean Isn’t Dying Because of Fukushima

Links for 12/5/14

Legend George Greenough Narrates Lost Footage

Microplastics: A puzzle along Lake Champlain

France Jumps Feet First Into Tidal Energy, Offshore Wind To Come 2015

Alstom 1MW tidal stream turbine

Oil Investors at Brink of Losing Trillions of Dollars in Assets

Here’s How Climate Change Has Altered Life On Earth In The Past 20 Years

switchedonaudrey’s photo on Instagram

Here’s what your city will look like when the ice sheets melt

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant shut down after “technical fault”

America could power itself 100 times over with solar energy

A Huge Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Three Times Faster Than Previously Thought

Library’s seed sharing system threatened by Big Ag regulations

Links for 5/7/14

FET Reverb

Beautiful movie palaces of California

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

Still Counting Gulf Spill’s Dead Birds

Senators warn of safety risks at closed reactors

10 photos from L.A.’s long-gone Pacific Ocean Park, a day out by the sea you’ll never enjoy

Producer Joe Meek’s life & sound examined in new music film

The Myth of Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies-Chris Hedges

Here Comes the Money: Solar Power and Self-Determination in Western Sahara

Links for 3/20/14

Meanwhile in Mexico : Surf Rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece

Unmanned aircraft captures 2,500-year-old petroglyphs in the Utah desert

Homo floresiensis

Kona Repurposes Brewing Kettle as Rain Harvester

Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn

Officials give up on evicting pythons — big but nearly invisible in the wild — from Everglades

Surf music producer, recording, mixing, mastering.GoPro captures scary meeting between diver and shark

Nuclear crisis at Fukushima continues to unfold: a trilogy of reports by PBS NewsHour’s Miles O’Brien (video)

How the U.S. Exports Global Warming

Arctic Wildfires In Winter: Norway Experiences Freakish Historic Wildfires In January

Water Saving Tips