Wealthy investors are buying Long Beach’s old low-rent buildings and evicting everyone, making them homeless

Deep in the LHI tape archive hid a mysterious tape marked “Woodchucks.” The tape held a “lost” instrumental surf album recorded by Lee Hazlewood in the early 1960s. Some of the songs have been recorded by The Astronauts, Jack Nitzsche, Dick Dale and His Del-Tones, Takeshi Terauchi, The Ventures, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), The Trashmen, The Challengers and The Surfaris. Lee’s original recordings have never been released. Bask in the reverb drenched twang of Lee Hazlewood’s original versions for the first time ever!

Lee Hazlewood – Cruisin’ for Surf Bunnies

Being near a body of water makes us calmer and healthier, science shows

Earth is becoming ‘Planet Plastic’

Evan Anderson – My Blue Heaven

Beautiful film on the colorful diversity of nudibranchs

1950s American Vacations In Kodachrome

A New Golden Age for the Tiki Bar

Flooding From Sea Level Rise Threatens Over 300,000 US Coastal Homes

Alaia-Surfbrettbau-Projekt an der Inselschule Borkum

Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the great cities of the world

Source: San Francisco, then and now

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The apartments at 310, 320, and 330 Esplanade in Pacifica, California are literally hanging over the edge of a cliff. Rain, storms, and rising ocean levels are steadily eroding the sandy bluffs on …

Source: Video: cliffside apartment buildings near San Francisco are about to fall / Boing Boing

Source: Thrillville: Introducing THRILLVILLE PRESS!

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Back in ’77 when shorts were short, socks were long and hair was big, professional photographer Nick De Wolf took these excellent shots of young skateboarders or as they were called in the early days Sidewalk Surfers showing off their skillz. These shots were taken in Aspen, Colorado about the time when freestyle skating was [&hellip

Source: Sidewalk Surfers of Seventy Seven – Voices of East Anglia

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The gigantic sand dunes in Cronulla, Sydney – close to the so-called birthplace of modern Australia – date back to mesolithic times. But over the past century they have been steadily encroached upon by human activity

Source: Cronulla sand dunes: the 15,000-year-old landscape that greed destroyed – in pictures | Australia news | The Guardian

As sea levels rise and streets begin to flood, South Florida confronts a bleak future.

Source: Miami is Flooding – The New Yorker

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Superempty

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The Siege of Miami

Hold a molecular cocktail party

Climate change in Australia

Beachfront Living in Bali

The Kennedy-Johnson Climate Legacy

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Gorgeous photos of waves crashing: Aqua Viva, by Pierre Carreau

Plastic waste dominates seafloor litter in Mediterranean and Black Sea surveys

Marine mining: Underwater gold rush sparks fears of ocean catastrophe

Beach Resorts Are Destroying the World’s Beaches

Eat The Enemy: As Jellyfish Bloom, So Do Appetites Overseas

Climate Change Takes A VillageAs The Planet Warms, A Remote Alaskan Town Shows Just How Unprepared We Are

Micro Wind Turbines: Another Big Headache For Big Oil

Five ways to stop mass extinction

Palm Springs’ Bootlegger Tikifies Palm Canyon Drive

The Reason You Love “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

Why is Arctic ice melting so fast?

Inside Beijing’s airpocalypse – a city made “almost uninhabitable” by pollution

8 Surprising Ways Music Affects the Brain

Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals

The hidden ‘evil twin’ of climate change

Green List promotes best conservation areas

Rethinking Coastal Development In Virginia Beach

Grotesque, Garish, Exuberant American Art by J. Hoberman | The Gallery | The New York Review of Books

From Spin to Sea: Polyester Microfibers Clog Our Beaches

Warmest oceans ever recorded

Residents of upscale LA neighborhoods pissed at Waze. They’re fighting back in the most passive-aggressive way possible.

The Counterculture was Never What it Used to Be

Hamburg Now Has an Algae-Powered Building

The Largest Climate March in History Matters More Than You Think

On a Warmer Planet, Which Cities Will Be Safest?

Unreflective pastoralism will kill us all

Before They Pass Away