Being green won't cut it unless you're innovative too. These surfers are turning pond scum, old plastic, and fishnets into stuff for you to surf.

The Olympics will divide surfing more than any other issue. What chance is there that surfers will get citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger - in summertime beachbreaks?

Billabong has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a shareholder class action relating to its share price collapse in 2011.

Phil Jarratt on the unravelling of former stock market darling, SurfStitch

Never mind surfing in the Olympics, an inland CT event, or even the online backlash, last week's wavepool sale will have a side effect not yet considered – the potential to bankroll the whole WSL.

As crowd numbers skyrocket Neil Lazarow thinks it may be time to revisit some of surfing's core rules.

The network of ocean buoys are proving problematic for detecting tsunami but fortunately scientists have stumbled across better technology - big ships.

They're weather systems, but not as we know them. And to think about surfing in such an event - an event expressed in detail by James Hansen and outlined by blindboy - is "an almost obscene waste of effort."

Earlier this month it was calculated that Cyclone Winston generated $20 million for the Gold Coast. But how was that figure generated and how can it alleviate overcrowding on the Gold Coast?

"The surf was uncrowded, there was only 100 people out."

Welcome to the age of the hypercrowd.