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Dragon boats ride Latin wave of popularity

People race in dragon boats in Amador Causeway, Panama City, Panama, on Sept 29. MATIAS DELACROIX/AP Raising awareness Dragon boat racing was already well-established in Brazil and Panama before pink boat events began spreading and further boosted the sport's popularity. Team members used kayaks and canoes to train until they received their first dragon boat five years ago. Annual Lunar …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dragon boats ride Latin wave of popularity

China Daily

People race in dragon boats in Amador Causeway, Panama City, Panama, on Sept 29. MATIAS DELACROIX/AP Raising awareness Dragon boat racing was already well-established in Brazil and Panama before pink boat events began spreading and further boosted the sport's popularity. Team members used kayaks and canoes to train until they received their first dragon boat five years ago. Annual Lunar …

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3 months ago

Women connect with their Hawaiian culture in ‘Olympics’ of outrigger canoe racing

NPR

Women connect with their Hawaiian culture in ‘Olympics’ of outrigger canoe racing toggle caption Catherine Cluett Pactol Moloka’i, Hawai’i— It’s dawn on the Hawaiian island of Moloka’i, and the sun is rising on 48 outrigger canoes lined up on the sand of Hale O Lono harbor. Hundreds of women from around the world have gathered for a race called Nā …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods

Associated Press

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year. The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US

BBC

Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US Allen Creative/Steve Allen/Alamy A wooden walkway now juts out over the marshy flats where Fort Mose was built in 1738 Nearly 200 years before slavery was abolished in the US, Black freedom-seekers journeyed south instead of north to a place that promised freedom. Tour St Augustine's Black past In addition …

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1 year ago

Improvement of Kalamukku fish landing centre tops fishermen’s wish list

The Hindu

As 2024 dawns, an improved fish landing centre at Kalamukku, in the heart of Kochi, is among the New Year wish list of fishermen, especially traditional fishermen, who have been complaining of the lack of facilities at the landing centre for more than a decade. The Kerala Parambaragatha Matsya Thozhilali Samithi, an organisation representing the interests of traditional fishermen, said …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

Associated Press

SHERWOOD, Ore. — Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead “Tree of Life.” Its foliage, normally soft and green, is tough and brown or missing altogether. They’re going to start bailing.” Three dead western red cedars, center, at Magness Memorial Tree Farm in Sherwood, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Christine Buhl, a forest health specialist for …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

LA Times

Oregon forest health specialist Christine Buhl says tests show this western red cedar in Sherwood, Ore., slowly succumbed to drought. Its many uses earned it names such as the “Tree of Life.” But more recently, scientists have started calling this water-loving relative of redwoods by a less flattering name: “the climate canary.” Last year, Buhl and colleagues reported that red …

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1 year, 2 months ago

The Amazon's colossal prehistoric fish

BBC

The Amazon's colossal prehistoric fish Manuel Vazquez The paiche has been fished since time immemorial in the rivers and lagoons of the Amazon Sustainable paiche ﬁshing in Peru's Pacaya Samiria National Reserve has become an opportunity for Amazonian communities, thanks to its increasing popularity within haute cuisine. Manuel Vazquez Fisherman haul in a 100kg paiche in the Pacaya Samiria Reserve …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Traditional boat-building with a modern spin to reduce Marshall Islands' reliance on diesel

ABC

When Atina Schutz's mum picked her up from school in the Marshall Islands' capital of Majuro, she didn't expect the car ride home to turn frightening. She's a researcher with the Micronesian Center for Sustainable Transport, which is based in the Marshall Islands' capital, Majuro. Exactly how full decarbonisation in the Marshall Islands will look, and how much traditional boat-building …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Two Dutch tourists drown after canoe accident in France

NL Times

Two Dutchmen, aged 25 and 35, drowned after a canoe accident in a canal between Mathaux and Blaincourt-sur-Aube in France on Wednesday. They got into trouble in whirlpools in a place in the canal where a water suction pipe runs, according to local media. An 8-year-old child went into shock and was taken to hospital along with another Dutch person. …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Families ‘heartbroken’ after deaths of two women after canoes capsize

The Independent

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The families of two women who died after their canoes …

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2 years, 5 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. His ambitious project revolves around handcrafting canoes and having visitors explore the island's many waterways on them. Chongming …

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2 years, 5 months ago

A natural approach

China Daily

A 12,000-square-meter area of land on Shanghai's Chongming Island has been transformed dramatically by Xiong Feng into a farm with a rice field, a lotus pond, pavilions, boathouses, docks and secluded corners where visitors can spend their leisure time close to nature. His ambitious project revolves around handcrafting canoes and having visitors explore the island's many waterways on them. Chongming …

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2 years, 6 months ago

The Quarry Blurs the Line Between Video Games and Cinema

Wired

When the new teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water—the next entry in James Cameron’s CGI-heavy film franchise—came out, many viewers opined that the footage resembles a video game. Other ideas also flow freely across mediums: Games and movies alike have set their watches to Matrix-style “bullet time” effects; both forms have shaken up their cameras à la Bourne; …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Cliffs that sport mystical tattoos

China Daily

Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Ningming county, Chongzuo city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. As the only remains of the Luoyue people living in the region about 2,000 years ago, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site List in 2016. It remains a mystery how the ancient Luoyue people painted those murals atop those towering cliffs for …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Cliffs that sport mystical tattoos

China Daily

Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in Ningming county, Chongzuo city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. As the only remains of the Luoyue people living in the region about 2,000 years ago, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site List in 2016. It remains a mystery how the ancient Luoyue people painted those murals atop those towering cliffs for …

Figures Luoyue Bronze Drums

3 years, 1 month ago

Famed Australian Indigenous actor David Gulpilil dies at 68

Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s most acclaimed Indigenous actor, David Gulpilil, has died of lung cancer, a government leader said on Monday. Gulpilil starred in Roeg’s acclaimed 1971 movie “Walkabout” as a lone youth wandering the Outback as part of a tribal rite of passage, who comes across and rescues two lost British children. Gulpilil recalled learning to binge on alcohol …

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3 years, 1 month ago

David Gulpilil, Indigenous actor known for ‘Crocodile Dundee’ and ‘Australia’ roles, dies

LA Times

In a career that spanned five decades, David Gulpilil, shown in 2016, found his widest audiences through his roles in the 1986 hit film “Crocodile Dundee” and in director Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 epic “Australia.” David Gulpilil, Australia’s most acclaimed Indigenous actor who rose to fame in “Crocodile Dundee,” has died of lung cancer, a government leader said Monday. In a …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Scientists scour Australian rivers in canoes looking for new varieties of taro, the 'food of the gods' that's threatened by climate change

ABC

A team of Queensland scientists have traded their lab coats for paddles and canoes, as they scour the Brisbane River in search of "the food of the gods". Key points: Many Pacific countries rely on the root vegetable taro as a source of food and income Climate change is causing increasingly saline soils, threatening the crop's production Australian scientists are …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Minnesota wildfires disappoint travelers and outfitters

Associated Press

ELY, Minn. — Ely is typically teeming this time of year with visitors heading out on or returning from excursions into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. “Usually, this time of the morning, we’re bustling — getting people on the water, loading canoes, getting them out to their entry points,” Jason Zabokrtsky, owner of Ely Outfitting Company, told Minnesota Public …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Shark callers in PNG village fear destruction of their culture through seabed mining

ABC

Before dawn breaks, the shark callers of Papua New Guinea board their canoes. Key points: Shark callers are forbidden from seeing women for weeks before the hunt The villagers fear seabed mining may destroy their culture and environment A mining project in the waters surrounding New Ireland collapsed in 2019 They have been preparing for this day for many weeks, …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Artist turns work into life-saving equipment

China Daily

Artist Kong Ning presents her installation art "Floating", which is composed of 15 canoes, in Zhengzhou city, Henan province on July 28, 2021. Artist and environmentalist Kong Ning went to Zhengzhou on Wednesday to present her installation artwork entitled "Floating", which is composed of 15 canoes and calls on people to fight together against flooding. Artist Kong Ning poses with …

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3 years, 5 months ago

US to end large, old-growth timber sales in Alaska forest

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Thursday that it is ending large-scale, old-growth timber sales in the country’s largest national forest — the Tongass National Forest in Alaska — and will focus on forest restoration, recreation and other noncommercial uses. Restoring those protections in the Tongass would return “stability and certainty to the conservation of 9.3 million acres of the …

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Dragon boats ride Latin wave of popularity

Dragon boats ride Latin wave of popularity

Women connect with their Hawaiian culture in ‘Olympics’ of outrigger canoe racing

California tribe that lost 90% of land during Gold Rush to get site to serve as gateway to redwoods

Fort Mose: The first free Black town in the US

Improvement of Kalamukku fish landing centre tops fishermen’s wish list

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

Climate change is hastening the demise of Pacific Northwest forests

The Amazon's colossal prehistoric fish

Traditional boat-building with a modern spin to reduce Marshall Islands' reliance on diesel

Two Dutch tourists drown after canoe accident in France

Families ‘heartbroken’ after deaths of two women after canoes capsize

A natural approach

A natural approach

The Quarry Blurs the Line Between Video Games and Cinema

Cliffs that sport mystical tattoos

Cliffs that sport mystical tattoos

Famed Australian Indigenous actor David Gulpilil dies at 68

David Gulpilil, Indigenous actor known for ‘Crocodile Dundee’ and ‘Australia’ roles, dies

Scientists scour Australian rivers in canoes looking for new varieties of taro, the 'food of the gods' that's threatened by climate change

Minnesota wildfires disappoint travelers and outfitters

Shark callers in PNG village fear destruction of their culture through seabed mining

Artist turns work into life-saving equipment

US to end large, old-growth timber sales in Alaska forest