Oceans

In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 8th June 2018
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Plastic caught up in the bleached corals around the Addu Atoll in the Maldives.
All rights reserved. Credit: © Uli Kunz / Greenpeace

The focus for this year’s World Ocean Day is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean. Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans, choking and entangling marine wildlife. These pictures are a sad testament of the problems caused by the tonnes of… Read More

Plastic pollution reaches the Antarctic

Posted by Louisa Casson - 7th June 2018
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It’s not what we wanted to find. When Greenpeace set sail to the Antarctic earlier this year, we were going to look for the incredible wildlife – tottering penguins, majestic whales, soaring seabirds – that call the Antarctic Ocean home. But even in these incredibly… Read More

A memento from the Antarctic

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 25th May 2018
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Thank you for joining the journey to protect the Antarctic. Although the Greenpeace ship has left the area, we still have until October to make sure the Antarctic Ocean Commission (the body responsible for protecting the region) says yes to an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. You can count… Read More

Tesco, every little helps but don’t stop there

Posted by Elena Polisano - 24th May 2018

Tesco has made a big announcement about changing their plastic packaging in stores. As the UK’s biggest supermarket, Tesco could be a game-changer when it comes to getting plastic off our shopping and out of our oceans. There are a lot of corporate plastic pledges flying around, so… Read More

Awe-inspiring photography is a powerful force for the environment

Posted by Pete - 23rd May 2018
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The Antarctic is an incredible, awe-inspiring place that most of us will never see outside of a David Attenborough documentary. It’s only through the stories told by photographers and filmmakers that we can conjure up in our minds images of Emperor penguins huddling together for warmth or the rumbling echo… Read More

Sustainable fishing in the UK

Posted by Paul Keenlyside - 14th May 2018
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The seas surrounding the UK are some of the most productive and species rich in Europe, yet three out of five UK fishing ports are economically deprived. The number of fishermen in the UK has almost… Read More