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A Peek Inside the World’s Greatest Record Store

These Are the People Who Built LA’s New Chinatown

Sisters with Transistors: inside the fascinating film about electronic music’s forgotten pioneers

Scientists find 25,000 barrels of possible DDT at ‘staggering’ dump site near California coast

Climate fight ‘is undermined by social media’s toxic reports’

If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants

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Climate refugees cannot be sent back home, United Nations rules in landmark decision

The case for … making low-tech ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones

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Skateboard shop in LA and It’s large collection

California sues tech investor Vinod Khosla over beach access, reviving bitter legal battle

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Morris J-Type van gets electric reboot after 58-year hiatus

Rampart Records’ essential box set mines East L.A.’s 1960s and ’70s soul-funk scene

Kris Hall – walk like a samba – vid by Laura Holman

One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op

Stacia Ahina & Ashley Ahina | Midday Longboard Surfing in Hawaii

The brutal history of Bougainville – in pictures

Unheard Voices, Unique Perspectives

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think

Sea-level rise has claimed five whole islands in the Pacific: first scientific evidence

The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change

Six takeaways from The Post’s analysis of the globe’s fastest-warming areas

If defending life on Earth is extremist, we must own that label

In 1868 a Scottish castaway had to make a new life among the people of the Solomon Islands

Volkswagen is electrifying classic VW Beetles

Time Capsule: The cranking Haleiwa section from High On a Cool Wave

The Archivist: You Crazy Diamonds

Weather-related events are estimated to displace 143 million people by 2050 – but rising seas are already threatening tiny tropical nations. Can anything be done to help them?

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Amazon fires: Bolsonaro actively trying to devastate rainforest, leaked documents show

The Climate Trail is a Free multi-platform game about climate refugees fleeing ever worsening conditions after inaction on climate has rendered much of the USA (and the world) uninhabitable. The game combines the adventure and play of the journey north with visual novel elements where characters reveal how and why this climate apocalypse unfolded.

The best street performance, ever! No competition…

Retro wheels: Fiat 500 Jolly Icon-e by Garage Italia

Tiki-style, Hawaiian dress was the all the talk in the 1960s

How were vinyl records made in the 1950s?

What to Know About JFK’s Wild 1960s Bar-Packed Hotel, Opening Today

The Inverted World Map – Variations on a Blue Marble

A man spear fishing at night in Hawaii, 1940s

The zero-waste revolution: how a new wave of shops could end excess packaging

Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around: study

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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Volkswagen-Powered Wishbone Custom Will Soon Cross the Auction Block

Indigenous Peoples Go to Court to Save the Amazon From Oil Company Greed

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ISA Welcomes Oman and Mongolia as New Member Nations

Classique Basque stylist Clovis Donizetti, fun at home in Biarritz

Steve Cleveland: a Paradigm Shift

Big Religion May Have Gotten Too Much Credit for the Evolution of Modern Society

Snow-powered nanogenerator works where solar panels don’t

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Norway’s Kon-Tiki museum to return thousands of Easter Island artefacts

Mai Tais Are Better Than You Think

Video of a cute bubble car from 1942

Cocktail of the week: the media luna

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Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change

Climate Change As A Matter Of International Security

Reverb 10,000: The Tiki Men Story

Celebratory Dancing, Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, 1959

With a Green New Deal, Here’s What the World Could Look Like for the Next Generation

Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices

The Forbidden Waves of Nasa

The Jetsons “Test Pilot”

This Company Will Rebuild 1960’s Ford Mustang As An Electric Car

Sean Tully slaying a little righthander in France

California’s Woolsey Fire Now Burning Malibu Went Through The Site Of A Nuclear Meltdown First

The battle to curb our appetite for concrete

Mysterious ghost boats full of corpses keep washing up in Japan

Elektroautos: Aston Martin elektrifiziert Klassiker

Sentinel Island’s ‘peace-loving’ tribe had centuries of reasons to fear missionary

Letting Malibu Burn

Tropical paradise: tiki and rum at London’s Laki Kane

Monster shirts based on an episode of Leave it to Beaver

Entire city of Malibu evacuated as Woolsey Fire more than doubles in size over 24 hours

Born & Bred – award-winning short on Mal Sutherland by granddaughter Michaela Sutherland

Arbor Skateboards :: Plywood for the People – Arbor x Aaron Draplin

Rechargeable rides: 10 super-cool retro electric cars

Mondragon through a Critical Lens

These six species are about to be sacrificed for the oil and gas industry