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

vintage everyday: The Who’s Pete Townshend on a skateboard, c. 1960s

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 9/7/13

Environmental group captures never seen before images of rare sea life | wcsh6.com

Floating Market | Fish Swim through Mall Ruins in Bangkok

59% of the ‘Tuna’ Americans Eat Is Not Tuna

Stand with RAN in calling on US snack food industry to cut rainforest destruction from its products | Rainforest Action Network

The oceans are acidifying at the fastest rate in 300 million years. How worried should we be? – The Washington Post

We are fighting for survival, Pacific islands leader warns

Heat waves will quadruple by 2040, regardless of emissions cuts

The Cambodian Space Project: Jungle Boogie | Music | Emaho Magazine

You can go wading in the lake at the North Pole – Boing Boing

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

Links for 9/4/13

New Zealand has warmest winter on record | World news | theguardian.com

Solar energy – how much has been wasted up to this point? – Who, what, why: How does a skyscraper melt a car?

Facts about Global Warming and the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Tactics to Undermine Them – Exposing the Disinformation Playbook: An Interactive Slideshow | Union of Concerned Scientists

Global Public Square

Distribution and concentrations of petroleum hydrocarbons associated with the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico

Saving Beach Water Testing Programs | Surfrider Foundation

New method to analyse chemical contaminants in marine waters – News & events – JRC – European Commission

Links for 9/2/13

Biologists worried by migratory birds’ starvation, seen as tied to climate change – The Washington Post

500 fires rage across Sumatra

Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought

Study: We’re Headed To 11°F Warming And Even 7°F Requires ‘Nearly Quadrupling The Current Rate Of Decarbonisation’ | ThinkProgress

At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over | Hawaii Is Hot

LOST LOS ANGELES – The Beaches 1950 – YouTube

Scientists Discover A New Species Of ‘Walking’ Shark – Business Insider

It Could Have All Gone So Differently | Preservation Sound