August in pictures

This may still be the 'silly season' as far as our national press are concerned, but that hasn't prevented a lot of good work being achieved by Greenpeace campaigners around the globe.

Blockading incandescent light bulb manufacturing plants in India; halting a coal shipment to Canada's largest power station; protesting against the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Brazil; lobbying the Thai government to prevent them lifting a ban on GM crop field trials - these are just some of the practical steps we've been taking to help bring about the cleaner, greener world we all want to see.

Our Greenpeace International colleague and undisputed web queen Elaine has put together a neat slideshow of all this month's top pictures and links to the stories behind them. If you've not seen it already, there's a great picture and link to Spencer Tunick's living sculpture featuring hundreds of naked volunteers standing on an icy Swiss mountain top to symbolise the vulnerability of the glaciers to climate change.

For sheer nerve, though, my picture of the month has to be this this one of a german activist floating high over a german brown coal power plant held up only by 600 toy balloons. I've just e-mailed our German office to find out how he got down...