Ocean With The White Strip, La Conchita, California; By R. Nelson Parrish
Ocean With The White Strip, is an image from R. Nelson Parrish.
A Tribute to Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize, Green Belt Movement Founder
Kenya’s most recognizable woman, Pr. Wangari Maathai, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, where over 30 years she mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees.
The Sea: The First Wonder Of The World, In Pictures
Images from The Sea, a photography collection.
Island of Streymoy, Faroe Islands; By James Marcus Haney
Island of Streymoy, Faroe Islands, is an image from James Marcus Haney.
Seashells of Georgia and the Carolinas
With simple organization, this guide tells the individual stories of 213 shelled mollusks using descriptive accounts, distribution maps, and 244 color photographs. Shells are presented as beachcombers are likely to find them. A book by Blair and Dawn Witherington, published by Pineapple Press.
True colors : Bloom in the Barents Sea
Plankton blooms spanning hundreds or even thousands of kilometers occur across the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans every year. Many species thrive in the cooler ocean waters, which tend to be richer in nutrients and plant life than tropical waters.
Cakaulevu Reef, Fiji
Also called the Great Sea Reef, Cakaulevu shines turquoise through clear, shallow waters. It is the third longest continuous barrier reef in the world, behind the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Mesoamerica Reef off Central America.
Shorelines, Sandy or Otherwise, That May Not Last
“The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline,” authored by Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal, James Andrew Graham Cooper And Joseph T. Kelley, “is a comprehensive, readable guide to the physical features of many kinds of beaches and some of the threats they face”. A book review by Cornelia Dean , The New York Times.
La Plage, Brought To Paris, France
Warm sand and open air music in Paris… La Plage de Glazart is a unique open air summer festival featuring 140 artists and bands playing on a 50 tons artificial sandy beach, brought in the heart of the city.