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A good news story! One million ‘Wonder Plant’ seedlings planted in Wales to create healthy seas

A good news story! One million ‘Wonder Plant’ seedlings planted in Wales to create healthy seas

At a time when shallow seagrass meadows have disappeared from 92% of UK’s vast coastline, scientists have realized that this curious and gentle habitat is needed now, more than ever, to help reduce CO2-induced warming - and guard against potentially rising ...


Plans to sink oil rigging off Ningaloo

Plans to sink oil rigging off Ningaloo

From the Roaring Journals: In what is the first proposal of its kind in Australian waters, Woodside Petroleum plans to ...

Pismo the surfing goat

Pismo the surfing goat

As cheering children and men frantically paddle their inflatable surfboard through the frothy Pacific waves onto the beach, one passenger ...

70-year-old Wendy Worrell Page – three minutes from home in Saladita, Mexico

70-year-old Wendy Worrell Page – three minutes from home in Saladita, Mexico

Philanthropist, entrepreneur, born in San Antonio, Texas in 1952, Wendy didn’t start surfing until she was 10, but once her ...

WIN A CARABINE “SHAKEY” MODERN LOG

WIN A CARABINE “SHAKEY” MODERN LOG

After 52 years of building boards of all sorts in Wollongong, the Carabine label runs deep in the DNA of ...

ANOTHER PILSNER FOR THE PENINSULA!

ANOTHER PILSNER FOR THE PENINSULA!

We’ve given away two Pilsner models from Fine Surfcraft by Andrew Warhurst over our last two mags and coincidentally, both ...

An island under siege

An island under siege

Just as we’re all reeling from the bleak IPCC report, regulator NOPSEMA have quite literally added fuel to the fire, granting ConocoPhillips approval ...

Ben Aipa paddle out celebration, Magic Island

Ben Aipa paddle out celebration, Magic Island

This is a 50-minute video, and producer Kyle Metcalf says:  "Uncle Harold spoke about Ben Aipa, the man, the icon, ...

Surfing In The Sixties - Mona Boys – full 30-minute film

Surfing In The Sixties - Mona Boys – full 30-minute film

Documentary about the surfing community at Mona Vale on Sydney's Northern Beaches in the mid 1960s.  By Phil and Russel Sheppard ...

When crabs invade

When crabs invade

Robber crabs are the world's biggest land crustaceans, and on Christmas Island you better look out if you’re on a ...

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia's lost surf films – check this out, from Jolyon Hoff:

Finding, restoring and sharing Australia's lost surf films – check this out, from Jolyon Hoff:

Years ago, while making Searching for Michael Peterson, I found myself digging through the garages and cupboards of Australia's surf filmmakers ...

“Upwelling” – while there’s a heatwave in the US, the ocean is strangely chilly in Southern California

“Upwelling” – while there’s a heatwave in the US, the ocean is strangely chilly in Southern California

Surfers along Australia’s east coast will be familiar with the oceanographic phenomenon “Upwelling”, which often sees the ocean get unseasonably ...

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

The oceans give us life. We give them plastic.

From Parley South Africa & Sentinel Ocean Alliance: From the rivers and warm Indian Ocean of Durban, to the icy South ...

This newly discovered “playful” seahorse is the size of a grain of rice - and it's flourishing

This newly discovered “playful” seahorse is the size of a grain of rice - and it's flourishing

From the Wonders of the Sea file: Meet the Japan pig, a newfound species of pygmy seahorse discovered in Japan. Only ...

Rare first edition of Tom Blake’s book at Noosa Longboards store

Rare first edition of Tom Blake’s book at Noosa Longboards store

"Athlete, inventor, and writer, Tom Blake is renowned as one of the most influential surfers in history." Noosa Longboards has a most ...

Maverick the Surfing Cat with a cause

Maverick the Surfing Cat with a cause

The felines in the PLB shipping department are working way too hard to go surfing, but no doubt there’s a grudging ...

A Poem for Dad

A Poem for Dad

Hmm . . . we’ve posted daily on our website for 20-odd years and sent the weekly PLB NewsWire out every ...

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