The Maori people stand with Standing Rock Sioux by sending them hakas through Facebook.

Quelle: New Zealand’s Native People Are Showing Their Support For Standing Rock In A Powerful Way | Huffington Post

Update Oct 28th 1:20am CDT New video below shows police attacking Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp with pepper spray, less-lethal rounds used at close range, batons, LRAD, and tazers. Morton County, ND – Over two hundred multi-state law enforcement and National Guard personnel attacked water protectors gathered on unceded 1851 Oceti Sakowin treaty land just north […]

Quelle: Police & Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp – Unicorn Riot

“The overlap of fracking chemicals and the chemicals used in conventional drilling is troubling. The water board should have thoroughly studied and assessed this practice before allowing it.”

Quelle: Why Are California Farmers Irrigating Crops With Oil Wastewater?

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This San Diego community is allowing people to swap their firearms for longboards. But will it be enough to stem gun violence in the US?

Quelle: Trading in guns for skateboards, no questions asked

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Quelle: 1960’s Beatnik Glossary

Can you sing a song from a Marvel film score?

We have an anonymous army of unpaid, unsupported kids who are always better, always improving, and making movies that are weird and innovative and sometimes just astoundingly good theater.

Quelle: Making up Legends in the Era of Zero Budget Skateboarding

“I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. We have witnessed inspiring and brave acts by Native Americans and their allies who are defending and trying to protect their sacred sites and the safety of their sole source of water.The fossil fuel industry – and the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline in particular – have been proceeding with what appears to be a dangerous project in blatant disregard of obvious risks to the Missouri River and with disrespec

Quelle: Statement by Former Vice President Al Gore in Support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe — Al Gore

Last year a company set up by an Italian former scuba recycled more than 5,000 tons of discarded nets into nylon for apparel brands including Speedo

Quelle: Flotsam and fashion: recycler of ghost fishing nets makes marine litter trendy | Fashion | The Guardian

Agilent corporate news, including press releases, feature stories, journalist tools and information about Agilent

Quelle: Agilent Technologies Blog 92 Percent of the World Now Breathe Polluted Air

Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.

Quelle: A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find

The ocean conservation society last week completed its first-ever expedition to document the richness of habitats and threats to marine life in waters off the Netherlands, UK, Norway and Denmark

Source: Oceana’s first North Sea expedition – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian

The third in a series of international conferences focussed on invasive alien species (IAS) on islands, their impact and management.

Source: Island Invasives Conference, 2017

Military-style troops confronted Dakota Access water defenders recently, underscoring the common narrative U.S. tribes share with the world’s Indigenous Peoples.

Source: Standing Rock Joins the World’s Indigenous Fighting for Land and Life by Jenni Monet — YES! Magazine

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Source: OSTRICH – Alternative Longboards

The Fukushima nuclear disaster has contaminated the world’s largest ocean in only five years and it’s still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.

Source: Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse) | Zero Hedge

Giant collection of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items called a ‘ticking time bomb’ as large items crumble into micro plastics

Source: ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ far bigger than imagined, aerial survey shows | Environment | The Guardian

Scientists simulate tiny bacteria-powered ‘windfarm’

Experts say human impact on Earth so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken

Source: The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age | Science | The Guardian

I was fortunate to meet up with Joe Davies during my recent trip to Jersey, Channel Islands. This is a short edit filmed during the few hours that the waves cooperated.

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Source: Joe Davies / Jersey

All the rattan and bamboo you can handle

Source: Inside LA’s Incredible New Tiki Palace – Eater LA

This mason jar might not be the most interesting picture on the site, but believe us when we say that looks can be deceiving, as what this jar contains is something very, very delicious. The jar is…

Source: DIY Pineapple Rum

The century-old faces that would become America, in color.

Source: Astounding colorized photos reveal the faces and fashions of Ellis Island immigrants

The Interior Department says Native Hawaiians can now choose whether to form a unified government, which could eventually enter into formal government-to-government relations with the U.S.

Source: Native Hawaiians Now Have A Pathway To Form A Government

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A Twitter account has been sharing postcards from decades gone by, along with poignant, funny or mysterious snippets of their writers’ messages

Source: Postcard from the past: a nostalgic glimpse into holidays of yesteryear | Art and design | The Guardian

Seas At Risk – for the protection & restoration of the marine environment

Source: Seas at Risk – Breaking free from plastic – a global movement is formed

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Spill 46 miles off Shetland is being monitored by air and said to be heading away from land and dispersing

Source: BP platform leaks 95 tonnes of oil into North Sea | Environment | The Guardian

Nations on the North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas have decided to bolster their tsunami warning systems by giving France, Greece, Italy and Turkey a regionwide alert role.

Source: Europe to strengthen tsunami alert system – UNISDR

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Video: Johnny Depp, Harry Roach & Surfing

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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Hydrofoil surfing on open ocean swells

Source: Hydrofoil surfing on open ocean swells

Entdecken Sie das thematische Angebot von ARTE rund um Wissenschaft, Medizin und neue Technologien: ein origineller Blick auf die Welt von heute und morgen.

Source: Plastik in unseren Meeren | Wissenschaft, Umwelt, Technologie | ARTE Future

Earth’s wilderness decimated

Introduction Five years ago, I met Professor John Sweeney. At the time, Sweeney was the head of the Centre for Climate change in Maynooth. He is now emeritus. Sweeney has also been the IPCC represe…

Source: How climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart. Part 2: amplifying feedbacks, divestment

Ominous music in shark videos makes people more negative about the fish

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Source: Big Tech’s Latest Artist Relations Debacle: Mass Filings of NOIs to Avoid Paying Statutory Royalties (Part 2) | The Trichordist

“We will only know the true consequences of our time in the water 20 years from now.”

Source: Fukushima’s surfers riding on radioactive waves

The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.

Source: Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic

By some estimates, the entire population of Native Hawaiians was almost wiped out just a century ago. But now their numbers may be near what they were before their first contact with Europeans.

Source: It Took Two Centuries, But The Native Hawaiian Population May Be Bouncing Back : Code Switch : NPR

When archeologist Hiroyuki Miyagi heard that a bunch of ancient Roman and Ottoman coins had been unearthed from the ruins of an old castle in Okinawa, he initially thought it was a hoax.

Source: Ancient Roman coins found in an old Japanese castle – CNN.com

Kunststoffmüll verschmutzt die Meere. Tiere verwechseln ihn mit Nahrung und verhungern mit vollem Magen. Nun versucht eine deutsche Insel, ein Zeichen dagegen zu setzen.

Source: Föhr: Die erste plastikfreie Insel Deutschlands? – Gesellschaft – Süddeutsche.de

Video: Logging Braziil

Source: Pacific Longboarder News / Reviews / Events

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Why The Streaming Business Model Is Broken – MTT – Music Think Tank

Clues left in genes of modern populations in Australian and Papua New Guinea enable scientists to trace remarkable journey made by first human explorers

Source: Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms | Australia news | The Guardian

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This map ranks the world’s oceans by the amount of plastic floating on the surface.

Source: Plastic pollution: which two oceans contain the most? | World Economic Forum

Cyrus Sutton & Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula

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A poll from Greenpeace found that almost two thirds of people in the UK think microbeads should be banned

Source: How the microbead ban could help solve a massive problem

Barry Nuttall was a housing protester like no other. Dressed as a second world war US general, he formed a small army to resist Hull council’s demolition plans. When his home was destroyed, he lived in a camp amid the rubble. Thirty years on, Stephen Walsh goes in search of Nuttall’s legacy

Source: The extraordinary story of Hull’s ‘major general’ and the siege of Wyndham Street

Carbios has been granted two key US patents a novel plastic-degrading microorganism and creation of plastics with a customized lifespan.

Source: French Biodegradable Plastics get new key US Patents

‘Bayou Maharajah’, a critically-acclaimed documentary about the life, work and struggles of piano virtuoso James Booker will begin streaming on Netflix.

Source: James Booker Documentary Coming to Netflix in September

Fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about the evolution of modern humans and our closest relatives.

Source: How China is rewriting the book on human origins

Cars restricted to 5mph over 60 blocks of Financial District at weekend, as transport department runs Shared Streets event inspired by Bogotá and Paris

Source: A new New York? Manhattans oldest neighbourhood goes car-free, kind of …

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Source: MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on the Standing Rock protests / Boing Boing

update: Mercenaries Just Attacked Dakota Pipeline Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray (video)

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Our ancestors are looking at the people with tears in their eyes because they know all the pain and suffering yet to come. They know there is no tomorrow for those yet to be born.

update III: Support the Indigenous led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline

update IV: Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota After Covering Pipeline Protest

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Following a court decision to deny an injunction blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, the feds impose a limited temporary halt on building.

update VI: Erased by False Victory: Obama Hasn’t Stopped DAPL

update VII: Militarized Police Approaching Peaceful Gatheres

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The charges against Goodman are a clear attack on journalism and freedom of the press.

Source: Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All. | The Nation

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As pipeline protests continue, law enforcement has stepped up its message, saying more forcefully that it is going to take a hard line.

Source: Questions raised as protest policing takes proactive approach | North Dakota News | bismarcktribune.com

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Riot police accompanied by armored vehicles and helicopters arrested protesters and injured dozens.

Quelle: Police Fire at Dakota Water Protectors in Eviction Crackdown

update XI: Amnesty International just sent human rights observers to North Dakota to protect water protectors

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Even though the North Dakota Pipeline isn’t primarily a climate issue, this new documentary shows the powers that the water protectors are facing.

(Leonardo di Caprio video has since been removed)

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Protesters opposing the controversial pipeline reported being hit with teargas, rubber bullets and percussion grenades during the standoff

Source: Standing Rock protest: hundreds clash with police over Dakota Access Pipeline | US news | The Guardian

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Sophia Wilansky is a water protector from New York. She left New York City several weeks ago to help with the struggle at Standing Rock. She been an active participate and family to the activist groups NYC Shut It Down and Hoods4Justice. Sophia has always been committed to confronting injustice through vigilance and resistance.
Sophia was giving out bottles of water to protectors holding down the space when she was shot with a concussion grenade. This was the response of police and DAPL mercenaries as she and other brave protectors attempted to hold the line against the black snake in service of protecting our water. As of last night, we found out she was air lifted to County Medical Center in Minneapolis were she’s currently undergoing extensive, hours-long surgery from injuries sustained from the blast.
Please consider donating to help pay for her treatment. We must to support our comrades when they need us the most. She needs all of us right now. After all she is our family. #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife

Source: Medical Fund for Sophia Wilansky by Michael Basillas – GoFundMe

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Amid a media blackout of the Standing Rock protests, law enforcement targets the rare journalists on the scene

Source: Amid a media blackout of the Standing Rock protests, law enforcement targets the rare journalists on the scene

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Governor orders thousands of activists to leave the encampment, citing ‘harsh winter conditions’, but does not authorize police to carry out evacuation

Source: Standing Rock protest: North Dakota governor orders immediate evacuation | US news | The Guardian

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Standing Rock Supporters Celebrate Pipeline Plan Denial
SUN, DEC 04

Source: NBC News

update XVIII:

US Court of Appeals Rules Against Standing Rock Tribe in Dakota Access Pipeline Case

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Despite having celebrated a victory against the corporation who was constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline, water protectors everywhere might be having to head out into the freezing cold once again to defend the sacred land and valuable waterways. This is because President Donald Trump is expected to go forward with plans to sign an executive

Source: Trump to Sign Executive Order Pushing Through Construction of DAPL & Keystone XL Pipeline – The Ring of Fire Network

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Today, Tuesday February 7, the US Army Corps gave notice of intent to grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Mni Sose (Missouri River). The Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock is calling for February 8th to be an international day of emergency actions to disrupt business as usual and unleash a global intersectional resistance to fossil fuels and fascism.

Source: This Is The #NoDAPL Last Stand

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Armed occupation brought an anticlimactic and forlorn end to the camp, which had been home to thousands of activists opposing the Dakota Access pipeline

Source: Police remove last Standing Rock protesters in military-style takeover | US news | The Guardian

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Source: In Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Court Finds That Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline Violated the Law – The Indigenous American

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Source: Since Standing Rock, 56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests

update XXIV:

Source ‘They’re billin’ us for killin’ us’: activists fight Dakota pipeline’s final stretch