Links for 4/15/15

The Drought Is Behind California’s Skyrocketing West Nile Virus Numbers

Toxic dispersant used to clean oil spill

Trailer White Waves – a documentary about surfers fighting against unseen pollution

8-foot-long carnivorous cat-eating lizards are invading Florida

The way humans are using land is dramatically decreasing biodiversity—and it’s only getting worse

Rick Griffin Galleries

California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth

California Facing Extreme Heat Waves and Rising Seas

Mediterranean Sea ‘accumulating zone of plastic debris’

Pacific Ocean Now Dead From Fukushima Radiation

A professional diver took inventory of 200km of Canada’s west coast.


(video has since been removed)

Update
The assumption, made in the video, that this dramatic development was caused by the nuclear desaster in Fukushima is not scientifically founded, or so says Motherload – The Pacific Ocean Isn’t Dying Because of Fukushima

Links for 2/25/15

Conservation, Education and Research in French Polynesia

Reef Oasis Found in Depths of Murky Iraqi Waters

Googie Architecture in Los Angeles Part 2

Googie Architecture in Los Angeles Part 1

Daily chart

10 Reasons Surfing Improves Humanity

How Las Vegas Went From Classy To Trashy

26 Beatnik Slang Words and Phrases We Should All Start Using

Watch 77 People Surf The Same River Wave In France

Book: ‘Rock & Roll’s Hidden Giant,’ by Charlie Gracie (with John A. Jackson)

How to Build an Amazing Surfboard for $75

Architektur nach der Kolonialzeit: Als die Ufos in Afrika landeten

Fish with two mouths caught in Australia

‘Fifty miles out we could smell the pollution’: sailing amid the ocean litter

Keep our oceans healthy!

The Arctic Ocean

Inside the Garbage of the World HD (Theatrical Version)

The Global Ocean Commission’s final report is now available!

Inspectors urge Japan to dump water from Fukushima plant into ocean

Great British Oceans

Indonesia’s Coral Reefs are under Climate Change Threat

The ocean is filling up with plastic, 8 million metric tons per year

How we ruined the oceans