Links for 9/23/13

The Crisis at Fukushima’s Unit 4 Demands a Global Take-Over | Common Dreams

Urgent international petition calling for immediate action on the uncontrolled radioactive discharges at Tepco’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Are You Drinking Too Much? The Myth Of Moderation – Forbes

Overfishing of sharks trashing coral reefs | Herald Sun

Overfishing a threat – Fiji Times Online

How Deep is The Costa Rica Shark Finning Rabbit Hole? | The Costa Rican Times

Maili Masters

Speaker Week(s) Begins with Jordan Watts | Preservation Sound

 

Links for 9/21/13

Coral reefs suffer as the relentless hunt for shark fins takes its toll | Environment | theguardian.com

Journalism and Climate Change: A conversation about this bad relationship and ideas about what might help – Faun Kime

vintage everyday: Fashion on the Street of Singapore, ca. 1969

Japan Meteorological Research Institute “60,000,000,000 Bq of Cs-137 and Sr-90 is leaking to the open ocean everyday” | Fukushima Diary

Locking in the locked-out generation – The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Miniweb Earth League News

Lost & Found on Vimeo

Arctic Ocean Acidification – Faun Kime

Links for 9/19/13

Stop Dirty Energy Development in Santa Barbara! | 350.org Campaigns

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

NHK: Attempts to stop Fukushima contamination flowing into ocean have failed — Japan Nuclear Expert: “Most likely flowing fairly quickly into sea” from nearby Reactor No. 2

The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained | Mother Jones

vintage everyday: Beautiful Women’s Swimwear Fashion in the 1950’s

Forget zombies; we should be fighting jellyfish | Grist

Climate change to have double impact – study | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Wildlife vulnerable to climate change teeters on edge of extinction

Links for 9/17/13

How Much More Can Polar Bears Take?

Hawaii Molasses Spill: Sen. Brian Schatz Wants Review After Honolulu Accident

Unprecedented rate and scale of ocean acidification found in the Arctic

Elliot Easton’s Tiki Gods invite you to Easton Island

Prince Jefri of Brunei: how to blow billions – Boing Boing

Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

Satellite reveals ‘hidden’ 1000-ha oil palm plantation in Amazon rainforest in Peru

Europe importing more palm oil for biofuels, raising risks for rainforests

Rolling Stone Mobile – Politics – Politics: Global Warming Is Very Real

Japan Typhoon Threatens Fukashima Nuclear Plant

The Real Mermaids of San Marcos, Texas – Boing Boing

Links for 9/16/13

A tank area dam overflowed due to the Typhoon rain | Fukushima Diary

LG Made a Retro Wood-Panelled LED TV with Knobs and Everything

Molasses spill in Hawaii destroys ocean habitats, draws sharks to area where humans surf and swim – Boing Boing

Hawaiian Molasses Spill: Cleanup As Slow As : Discovery News

Arctic Ocean Acidification – Faun Kime

Finding the Ocean Inside of a Giant Opal

Plastic Paradise – The Great Pacific Garbage Patch | Surfrider Foundation

Google’s lobbyists go big on climate change denial, raise money for Inhofe & Competitive Enterprise Insitute – Boing Boing

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vintage everyday: Old Photos of Life with Beach Bums at San Onofre, Calif., 1950

Links for 9/9/13

Absurd Creature of the Week: 10-Foot Bobbit Worm Is the Ocean’s Most Disturbing Predator – Wired Science

They’re Taking Over! by Tim Flannery | The New York Review of Books

Clouseaux Limited Edition Vinyl Series! — Kickstarter

Tokyo insists it’s “absolutely safe” as Fukushima’s radiation levels surge – Salon.com

Campaigns | Surfrider Foundation

Thousands of Dolphins And Whales Will Get in the Way of the Navy’s Bombs, Says the Navy | Smart News

10 Great Vintage Shopping Experiences in Bangkok – Bangkok.com Magazine

Radioactive Seas in Fukushima | SURFER Magazine

More Wildfires = More Warming = More Wildfires | Mother Jones

Links for 9/6/13

Sea Change: High and Low Tide from the Same Location

Holocene extinction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fukushima No. 4 fuel pool “is perhaps the greatest threat humanity has ever faced” -CEO

Adrift: tracking the global ocean circulation

10 tips for helping the ocean at home | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Father And Son Coaxed From Jungle 40 Years After Vietnam War : The Two-Way : NPR

Exclusive: Brian Wilson, Jeff Beck touring together

Dolphins can recognize calls from old tank mates from 20 years ago, study finds – The Washington Post

Links for 9/5/13

Diana Nyad shark swim: How dangerous are the sharks between Cuba and Florida? – Slate Magazine

Stephen Schneider: Science and Distortion in the Climate Change Debate – Faun Kime

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan | Open Culture

vintage everyday: Marilyn Monroe on vacation in Amagansett, New York, 1957

Florida Fights to Save a Troubled Lagoon and Its Once-Flourishing Marine Life – Wired Science

Asia Conference Links Healthy Oceans, Communities and Economies | Global Partnership for Oceans

BREAKING… Fukushima Disaster Leaves Hundreds of Whales Radiated to Death | National Report