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Usually the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has their hands full protecting whales from Japanese hunting boats or documenting the carnage at the infamous Taiji Cove. However, while they will still be dedicated to protecting marine life until there is no...
Forget hotel chains that damage the planet with excessive detergent use and shocking water waste: there are plenty of alternatives out there for the environmentally-conscious traveller planning a green getaway.
And the options for the eco-traveller are growing all the time.
Bad news for butterflies: The number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexican forests has plunged to the lowest levels since monitoring began more than 20 years ago, according to a study released by World Wildlife Fund, Mexico's Environment Department and...
An area of the Amazon the size of Belgium has received a short reprieve from soya-farming deforestation.
A landmark moratorium on Brazilian soya that was set to come to an end at the end of January, has thankfully been renewed for...
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
“The Cove Guardian team leader Melissa Sehgal and her incredible crew have been on the ground this last week during the largest dolphin drive of the season.
“These brave volunteers must not only suffer the trauma of...
The Chinese Government has issued a ban ruling out the serving of dishes containing shark fins, bird nests and other wild animal products at official reception dinners.
The ban is part of a sweeping government crackdown on corruption, excessive spending and...
The Sochi Winter Olympic Games are not only proving to be socially and politically controversial, but also environmentally devastating. Though the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and the 2012 Olympic Games in London were praised as the greenest Winter Games...
Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has cancelled its plans to drill in the Arctic waters off Alaska this year.
Following a federal court ruling that put the company's multibillion-dollar project on hold, the company’s new CEO, Ben van Beurden, announced this...
It is a bad time to be a stray animal in Sochi, Russia. Usually the stray animals would be little more of a nuisance to the locals. However that doesn't stop thousands of stray cats and dogs being shot, poisoned,
Skating, Biking, Playing And Dancing: Cyclovia Tucson Gives Traffic The Red Card
Cyclovia Tucson one of the largest celebrations of active transportation in the U.S. – as well as Arizona’s biggest block party.
The brainchild of the Living Streets Alliance, Cyclovia Tucson...
Pampering-lovers: Every time you exfoliate with many of the leading scrubs, peels and washes, tiny bits of plastic go down the drain.
This means that you are flushing plastic into the seas, where it contributes to the growing problem of plastic...
Greenpeace is pioneering a new way of delivering its environmental messages by posting a ‘Detox Fairy Tale’ from its Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.
The new storytelling approach is part of the organisation’s global ‘Detox’ campaign, which today revealed the presence...