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Save The Waves Film Festival wraps up

20 November, 2012 : - FILM: On Friday night, November 16 in San Francisco, Save The Waves Film Festival 2012 held its grand finale of live music and film screenings at the historic Victoria Theatre. After a wonderful tour of Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz in early November, Save The Waves Film Festival closed its 2012 …
Manmade surfing lake plan expands in UK

20 November, 2012 : - WAVES: The team behind an ambitious scheme to build a manmade surfing lake in the Avon Gorge has announced it is looking for a new home for the project. The original plan was to build the surfing lake in the Avon Gorge by the side of the Portway, but the Bristol Wave team says because the p…
Climate change buffering Mangroves threatened

16 November, 2012 : - Valuable mangroves protecting coastlines, sustaining sealife and helping slow climate change are being wrecked by the spread of shrimp and fish farms, a U.N.-backed study has shown. About a fifth of mangroves worldwide have been lost since 1980, mostly because of clearance to make way for t…
Surfing banned in Vizag (India)

17 November, 2012 : - SURFING BAN: A ban on entering the water on Vizag’s beaches (India) has hit a small community of surfers. Vizag’s beaches attract many tourists and the promenade is a popular place to relax and unwind. However, the rough seas combined with rocky coastline and a natural gradient …
New York films score help for Sandy victims

16 November, 2012 : - FILM: On Monday, November 26th, 2012 at Anthology Film Archives in lower Manhattan the NY surf community will come together to help raise funds for Hurricane Sandy Relief and Recovery. New York Surf Stories is an evening of locally produced surf films that focus on the New York surfing community…
Save The Waves Film Fest wraps up in San Fran

15 November, 2012 : - FILM: Friday evening, November 16, at the historic Victoria Theatre in San Francisco the final stop of a 3-city tour for the Save The Waves Film Festival lands. This epic evening of films and music has swept up the coast all month from Santa Barbara to Santa Cruz and now San Franc…
SurfAid launches Mentawai fundraiser & trip

15 November, 2012 : - SURFAID: The Mentawai Islands, off Indonesia’s Sumatran coast, are home to some of the most perfect surf breaks in the world. A dream destination for surfers. But look past the azure blue waters and perfect waves and you’ll see communities challenged by regularly occurring natural di…
Rasta helps Kiwis save tiny dolphins

14 November, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: The world’s smallest known species of dolphin, the Maui’s (or Popoto) dolphin is critically endangered and faces the threat of total extinction if moves to mine the seabed along the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island go ahead, according to surfers and en…
Are WA shark attacks linked to sheep exports?

12 November, 2012 : - SHARK: A group of shark conservationists has called for more research on a potential link between attacks on humans and dead sheep thrown into the ocean by the live sheep export trade. Western Australians for Shark Conservation (WASC) is trying to revive debate on the issue, which was raise…
Sustainable surfboard community to rally

9 November, 2012 : - ENVIRONMENT: Golden Days Surfrider Eco Challenge offers the chance to gather and surf with industry giants. Surfing Queensland, Tommy Wegener, Codfish, and Surfing Green make this day an opportunity for the wood surfboard and sustainable surfboard community to get out and enjoy sharing …
Warmup not enough for El Nino episode

8 November, 2012 : - EL NINO: During October 2012, the Pacific Ocean continued to reflect borderline ENSO-neutral/ weak El Niño conditions. While the subsurface and surface Pacific Ocean has recently warmed, the tropical atmosphere remained largely consistent with ENSO-neutral. Upper-level and lower-…
Relief after Sandy: Jack Johnson helps out

8 November, 2012 : - SANDY: In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, Jack Johnson announces his support of immediate relief and long-term recovery efforts in the affected areas. Throughout the East Coast, tens of thousands are displaced from their homes and over 600,000 people are still without power…
Hurricane Sandy death toll reaches 178

3 November, 2012 : - SANDY: An extraordinary combination of ingredients came together to make Hurricane Sandy an extreme cyclone of unusual track, size, structure and power, unfortunately with severe and widespread impacts as a result. The death toll in the USA from Superstorm Sandy rose to 109 victims on Friday, as …