Australia creates largest area of marine reserves

Australia has created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing as well as oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food.
World’s Strangest Beaches

Most of us would relish a day at any old beach. But there’s a certain thrill in sinking your toes into sand at a different kind of shore…
Picasso and Beach Culture: a Cocktail of Sand and Sensuality

Amid the new freedoms of the 1920s, Picasso invented the beach… mythologizing the traditional seaside in works that go far beyond impressionist marine painting.