This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives

I worked for BP for 30 years – the energy sector has become incompetent and greedy

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

Lotion in the ocean: is your sunscreen killing the sea?

Listen up: why indie podcasts are in peril

Portable off-grid wind and water turbine

Climate Change Is Killing Beautiful Music, Too

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Doggerland Documentary

Distilling the essence of the global climate report into haiku poetry

UK’s Extreme Summer Heat Wave: What Does It Mean for Surfing?

High Tide Lefts – Tosh Tudor

A Plastic Bag’s 2,000-Mile Journey Shows the Messy Truth About Recycling

These 36 World Cities Will Be Underwater First

Hawaii: The Stolen Paradise (Full Documentary)

Dreaming Big on the Open Web – The History of the Web

Crate Diggers Australia | Keb Darge

A Brief History of Classic Ska

Partying At Fresno State College – 1963

The problem with the internet that no one is talking about

From Wendy Harmer: As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

Robert Louis Stevenson Museum

Feed your moths and hide your trousers: the expert guide to making clothes last for ever

What too much artificial light steals from our night skies

ImillaSkate: an indigenous Bolivian skateboard collective – photo essay

Recording, ’50s Style

Beyond The Reef – Kerri Shannon Trio

Music For Airplanes – A collection of instrumental showpieces and scores for Egyptian films and TV-series (1973-1980)

Mapping Southern California’s history of oil extraction and spills

Jackson Palmer @ummjackson on Crypto Currencies

Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not “free speech”

Introducing The Waxhead

Nano state: tiny and now everywhere, how big a problem are nanoparticles?

8 Endangered Places We Can Still Save From Climate Change

The little island that won: how a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that’s happening now

• Bruce Jones (surfboards)
• What Makes Wood So Good? The Benefits of Wooden Boards
• The whole Austronesian language family
• Early Migration
• Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
• The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach
• Environmental Health
• Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
• How The Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial – The great George Monbiot
• Anthropologist suggest that the “hobbits” of Indonesia may still be alive

The Renewable-Energy Revolution Will Need Renewable Storage

Fires, Floods, FFS Enough! Email Your Local Candidates In the Lead Up To This Year’s Federal Election.

Private paradise: The French Polynesian island locking locals out of beaches

New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration

New Australian Craze “Roller Boarding” 1964

Is it time to begin rewilding the seas?

First Session at Huntington Beach

Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power.

Open Web Advocacy

In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things

Spotify’s ESG Fail: Environment

The Way Sediment Settles around a Rock

Behind the Scenes of As the Wind: The Enchanted Life of Eden Ahbez Parts One + Two – Brian Chidester documentary about Eden Ahbez has two volumes of making-ofs on YouTube. 1 and 2

How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions

Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality

Hawaiian leis and aloha at Martin Luther King Jr. march on “Bloody Sunday” in the Deep South, 1965

Inside L.A.’s Lowrider Car Clubs

The sad story of Astrud Gilberto, the face of bossa nova

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

In 1962, Chubby Checker’s sold-out Twist Party was quite the show

Little Pattie – He’s My Blonde-Headed, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy [Sing, Sing, Sing 1963]

Ceibita en Verano

The Dick Dale Virtual Museum

The wave pool backlash

A proud Aboriginal man and his son, from near the Kimberley Coast in North Western Australia, 1890-1910. They both carry boomerangs and the man has a woomera spear strapped to his back.

When did scientists first warn humanity about climate change?

California 1940’s, Newport Beach in color

Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape, RIP