Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers

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We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry

Amidst lingering smoke from the morning’s ceremony, Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda opened up the space with a welcoming. “We celebrate that you are here with us today to build something real. We don’t want our Sister Berta to become an empty word. We don’t want her name to become just another slogan.”

Source: What Does Justice for Slain Honduran Environmentalist Berta Cáceres Mean? | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Significant portions of the habitats for loggerhead turtles, right whales, and many other species would be impacted if the Obama administration approves permits for seismic testing.

Source: Loggerhead, Right Whale Breeding Grounds Are Entirely Covered By Atlantic Blasting Area | ThinkProgress

Water is at risk in the United States and around the world. Its quality and availability is in peril. Today, nearly one in eight people lack access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Globally, water-borne diseases kill more people than tuberculosis or malaria, and five times as many children die of diarrhea than of HIV/AIDS.

Source: Watching Out for Our Water | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Air quality in sun-baked California area has been identified as the worst in the US. Residents are concerned, but low wages mean long hours in the thick of it

Source: Life in San Joaquin valley, the place with the worst air pollution in America | US news | The Guardian

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Byron Bay Malibu Classic – Good Vibes, Fantastic Waves

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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California’s kelp forests are disappearing from the north coast. These formerly lush, dense jungles of sea weed provided shelter, food, and in many cases home, for many, many marine creatures…

Source: As Northern California’s kelp forests collapse, so goes the coastal ecosystem

Hokule‘a Arrives in Historic Yorktown, Virginia Aloha Charleston! Hokule‘a arrives in South Carolina to participate in the Charleston Outdoor Festival. Honoring Hawai‘i’s Astronauts Inspired by the common values of exploration and protection of our planet, Hokule‘a and Worldwide Voyage crewm…

Source: Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage

A U.N. panel said that governments should work towards studying the worst-case global warming scenarios.

Source: Governments Should Study Worst-Case Warming: U.N. | Climate Central

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Where is Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavor? Science can almost tell us!

The mass killings in 1965 live on in global emissions from forced forest fires – and through human rights abuses in the palm oil fields

Source: Why today’s global warming has roots in Indonesia’s genocidal past | Joshua Oppenheimer

Mekong: a river rising

Landmark case may force minister to consider coal’s impact on reef and block new fossil fuel projects

Source: Great Barrier Reef: new chapter opens in the fight to save natural wonder from mining

Your Water Heater Can Become a High-power Home Battery

No need to rely on the Tesla Powerwall

Source: Popular Science

In 1952, French physician Alain Bombard set out to cross the Atlantic on an inflatable raft to prove his theory that a shipwreck victim can stay alive on a diet of seawater, fish, and plankton. In …

Source: Can a castaway survive on fish, plankton, and seawater?

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‘Songs of Consolation,’ performed at Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge last month, was the first airing in a 1000 years of a medieval tune the way it would have been. …reconstr…

Source: Medieval music recreated and performed for the first time in 1000 years / Boing Boing

Star Wars tiki mugs from Mos Eisley Kon-Tiki Bar

Bye Bye plastic bags: Sisters’ remarkable fight to rid Bali of rubbish

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Met Office says warm spell should last most of the week as temperatures in much of UK hit 27C on Sunday

Source: Britain hotter than Ibiza during ‘exceptional’ May heatwave

Ninety-nine percent of the planet’s freshwater ice is locked up in the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps. Now, a growing number of studies are raising the possibility that as those ice sheets melt, sea levels could rise by six feet this century, and far higher in the next, flooding many of the world’s populated coastal areas.

Source: Abrupt Sea Level Rise Looms As Increasingly Realistic Threat by Nicola Jones: Yale Environment 360

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A Single Picture Explains Why the NMPA/HFA/Spotify Settlement is Deeply Flawed

Ecocapsule: A Tiny Solar-and-Wind-Powered Mobile Home

Source: Retro To Go: New Dansette reissue: Crosley CR6234A Dansette Junior portable record player

Single-fin surfing, black wetsuits, and elevator music from filmmaker/photographer Tatsuo Takei

Source: Authentic Wave | The Surfers Journal

For $20 I really like this new Matone dual USB battery pack! I haven’t found anything better at this price. The Matone battery is a great combo. I’ve tried water and damage resistant ba…

Source: $20 Water resistant, solar charging, 10000mAh power bank / Boing Boing

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I have an open fire and spend my evenings tanning animal and fish skins, and carving wood

Source: Experience: I am 16 and live alone in the wilderness | Life and style | The Guardian

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Found an abandoned garage during a hot July session and decided to film a mellow one in the shade to make you smile…boss setup: Bastl Boards “Walzer”/ Cloudride “Ozones”music by Barefoot Basement (www.barefootbasement.at)thanks to the Linz crew and the “blind” security guards to make this happen.Riding: Rene SchmidFilming: Rene Nocker, Andy Marva

Source: Garage Siesta › GoShredTV

Back in the ‘70s, a skateboarder from Northern California was blazing new ground.  His name was Rick Blackhart, and he skated with reckless abandon and pure aggression. Tunnel’s Rick Blackhart didn’t ride any old decks.  He would design skateboards with his fellow Tunnel Team member Kevin “KT” Thatcher.  They would take solid alder, router […]

Source: Tunnel Blackhart Model – LongBoardLarry

Captured by pirates or stranded at sea for years, all these people are a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

Source: These Real-Life Castaways Survived The Harsh Conditions Of The Sea Against All Odds

Enter surfing’s secret garden and get ready for the ride of your life

Source: Enter surfing’s secret garden and get ready for the ride of your life | Richard Williams | Sport | The Guardian

Introducing the Bahne Bamboo Tiki Longboard. This is a top of the line 44″ (111.76cm) classic longboard cruiser featuring a multi-ply hard wood maple & beautiful artisan Bamboo deck, rugged aluminum trucks & durable 70mm PU wheels.

Source: Bahne – Bamboo Tiki 44″ Longboard – Bahne Skateboards

Authorities are investigating whether pollution is to blame for a spate of mysterious mass fish deaths along the country’s central coast

Source: Vietnam investigates mass fish deaths

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Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disast…

Source: Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties

Source: O.C. History Roundup: Polynesians were first to settle Orange County

Analysis shows that the diminutive Homo floresiensis, died out at least 50,000 years ago, making competition with modern humans a likely cause

Source: ‘Hobbit-like’ hominins died out sooner than thought. Were humans to blame? | Science | The Guardian

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the prestigious John Hinde Studio, based in Dublin, produced a series  of elaborately staged photographs that were made into popular postcards – sold at Butlins holiday camps throughout the UK. In those days more than a million Britons had a holiday at Butlins every year. Three photographers, two German (Elmar Ludwig and …

Source: Seventeen Fabulous John Hinde Butlin’s Postcards c.1970 – Flashbak

Big Spring Beach Clean 2016

Source: Big Spring Beach Clean 2016 | Surfers Against Sewage

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Findings published on Tuesday are likely to replay a debate among climate scientists that started when a draft version of the paper came out last year.

Source: Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries

The US coast guard spotted castaways stranded on remote island near Micronesia three days after their boat capsized in south Pacific ocean

Source: Three men rescued off deserted island after spelling ‘help’ with palm leaves

Eden Ahbez – 14 rare/unreleased recordings – Hippie #1 – Fully annotated, with never before seen pictures. Guest appearances by Paul Horn and Eartha Kitt

Source: Eden Ahbez – Wild Boy – The Lost Songs Of Eden Ahbez

I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jai…

Source: The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution — invironment — Medium