Source: Dallas police shootings and #blacklivesmatter
New Zealanders raise millions to buy beach and donate it to the public / Boing Boing
Video: Salt of the Earth
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Uncontacted Tribes
More than NZ$1.4m raised so far to protect stretch of coastline in Abel Tasman national park from becoming out of bounds to the public
Located in the waters off Sipadan in Malaysia, is an old oil rig that is now a dive platform and resort named ‘Seaventures‘. The surrounding area is one of the diving industry’s renowned top dive destinations, and is commonly ranked as being one of the world’s best. Seaventures takes advantage o
Source: You Can Stay At This Converted Oil Rig In Malaysia And Go Diving
Source: Holy rollers: Church transformed into psychedelic skate park
Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)
Source: Laudato si’ (24 May 2015) | Francis
The native deisgns of New Zealand / Aoteoroa, rendered in SVG
Source: the new code – World Ethnomathematics: Maori Designs in SVG
It pumped out hugely successful cowboy films, heist dramas and Bond-style thrillers. It launched a Hollywood career and made the world’s first Zulu-language film. So does it matter that the explosion of black cinema in apartheid South Africa was funded by Pretoria – and led by an Afrikaner construction boss?
Source: Sollywood: the extraordinary story behind apartheid South Africa’s blaxploitation movie boom
A new documentary coming from Peter Marsh. The subject here is New Zealand ancestry other than Polynesian, but Peruvian and Asian.
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
Tar Sands Trial: Beaver Lake Cree Nation vs Alberta and Canada
New Zealand’s new ocean sanctuary will be one of world’s largest protected areas
Girls on the Beach – The Beach Boys Cover
Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows
Rare Photos of Norma Jeane with Her Family on the Beach of Santa Monica, 1928
100 Years Since Duke Celebrated Throughout NZ
The First Makaha Bodysurfing Classic
12 Amazing Vintage Photographs of New Zealand Landscapes in the 1880s
Kowloon Walled City was the densest—and most interesting?—place on Earth
Solar-charging battery for USB devices with massive 20000mAh
Australia Failing to Protect Great Barrier Reef, Report Says
Fiddling with global warming conspiracy theories while Rome burns
NASA Wallops concerned with potential offshore drilling
NOAA Survey Reveals Scarred Seafloor of Gulf of Maine
Surfrider Réunion
Charanjit Singh: Instrumental Film-Tunes (1975)
Welcome to the Rest of Our Lives
Global Warming: What We Knew in 82
IMF Austerity Helped Fuel Ebola Crisis: Researchers
The long, slow death of our watering holes
Pictures of Teenage Dancers at Upper Hutt Youth Club in New Zealand, 1969