Sizing up the Gyre
10 days ago Scientists returned home to San Diego after a journey into the vast and little-explored “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch”.
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Life’s a beach
A group of internet users are bringing a whole new meaning to ‘surfing the web’. The virtual-reality program Second Life allows you to create a character in your own image, grab your virtual surfboard and head to the beach. Photo: Dharma Austin
Dancing with Mother Nature
Australian Xavier Rudd is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has a strong connection with environmentalism and the rights of Aborigines. His inspiration comes as much from the ocean as the land.
End.>vacuum
Incubus front man Mike Einziger has recently collaborated with Hollywood’s hottest film score composer Danny Elfman on an unusual new project.
Facing the music
Music is Ben Harper’s passion but he’s also an avid surfer, with a great belief in the creative power of the ocean. Drift asked the man who counts the Malloy brothers, Eddie Vedder and Jack Johnson among his friends whether surfers make a good audience…
Sweeping up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Most of us have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a great lump of plastic floating in the central North Pacific Ocean. Read the rest of this entry »
