It’s Shark Week! This collection of photos from our archive supports
Discovery Channel’s celebration of these amazing species and the television
programme’s aim to raise awareness and respect for sharks.
Giving a hungry shark something else to chew on might be a good tactic.
It’s Shark Week. Despite us trying to tell you otherwise,
some of you still worry about getting chomped by a shark. So, to allay your
fears and help give you some practical ways to avoid being shark sushi, here is
the handy Greenpeace guide to avoiding shark attacks.
It’s Shark
Week. You’re allowed to be excited. If
you already like sharks you will doubtless be enjoying that the internet is
awash with sharp-finned fun. But if you don’t know much about sharks, or are a
bit wary because they’re scary, you might be wondering what all the fuss is
about.
Posted by Angela Glienicke -
31 July 2013 at 4:12pm -
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Normally you associate
Thailand’s beaches and holiday resorts with emerald water and white sands, but
on Saturday morning 50,000 litres of crude oil spilled from a leak in a
pipeline into the Gulf of Thailand, off Rayong province.
Selfridges Project Ocean - making sharks more fluffy
Okay, so it’s unlikely you’ll ever see a hammerhead
on a helter-skelter; it’s fair to say you won’t see many basking sharks
see-sawing with sawfish; and woe betide the wobbegong
that tries to have a go on a roundabout. But sharks need parks too. They have
as much right to play in safety as anyone else, right?
Posted by Angela Glienicke -
26 July 2013 at 4:48pm -
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Sitting in my comfortable office chair and watching these terrible images come through the picture desk, I feel a desperate need to stop this destruction. The devastating forest fires that swept through Sumatra recently caused record breaking air pollution in parts of Malaysia and Singapore.
Being held in captivity can chop 50-60 years from a killer whale's life expectancy
When I was little, I can vaguely remember a trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park for my
birthday. This was back in the days when the world was black and white,
Starburst was called Opal Fruits, and they still had dolphins in captivity in
the UK. I don’t remember much, but I know we watched a dolphin ‘show’ with
balls and hoops and clapping and ‘ooh-ing’.
You can’t see a dolphin in the UK doing that today. That is
progress.
New road-building plans ride roughshod over the green economy
Last week's spending round was another nail
in the coffin of "the greenest government ever". Treasury minister Danny
Alexander's speech was a stream of plans and proposals to carve up the
countryside, ratchet up road emissions and slash funding for green transport.
So much for a green economy.
But as I write this, with less than a week to
go, I’m just feeling... tired. I have sores on my shoulders from training with
backpacks full of weights, and every night brings tiresome dreams about
carabiners and tangled ropes.
