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In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year. In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. The water turns red with their blood, and the air fills with their screams. [...] About this talk In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case. About Jeremy Jackson A leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine [...] Images of BP oil spill ongoing global environmental dissaster Controled burn, does anybody really believe BP has any control over anything. This is a environmental disaster that is growing bigger and bigger with every waking minuete. What will happen next, nobody really knows. It seems that since this catastrophy first spilled fourth onto our screens and news sites, [...] I am happy to be able to send this message from Tokyo to you today and thank you for your support. Greenpeace has been peacefully protesting for environmental protection for decades. What started in one man’s front room in Vancouver, before I was even born, is now a global force for good. You’re helping to keep that history and tradition alive. But as my colleague Toru Suzuki and I know all too well, speaking up for our fragile earth can pose serious risks. [...] Rome, Italy : WWF applauds Canada, Japan, Korea and the United States for this week’s statement reconfirming commitments to urgently establishing a science-based recovery and management plan for overexploited stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna. But the global conservation organization is surprised at the absence of the European Union, whose fleets catch most of the fish, in backing the statement. [...] Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France – France is set to become the 20th country to sign up to a key international convention governing the use and protection of rivers and lakes crossing or forming international boundaries. The announcement, made this morning by French Secretary of State for Ecology Chantal Jouanno at the kick off meeting of the 6th World Water Forum to be held in Marseille in 2012, is a major boost for the 13 years old UN Watercourses Convention, which requires 35 contracting parties to come into effect. [...] Our emissions of carbon dioxide threaten to alter the very chemistry of sea water and change life in our oceans within the span of a single human lifetime. An animation by Leo Murray for Greenpeace. [...] I’ve got a short story to share with you: it starts in 2006 when computer giant Dell announced they’d quit using the most harmful toxic chemicals in their electronics by the end of 2009. At the time that was a great start and CEO Michael Dell set the bar for the rest of the industry with his public commitment. Now it’s almost June 2010 and Dell still hasn’t made a single computer that’s free from PVC plastic and brominated flame retardants (BFRs). [...] Seen from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle. It is a planet on which the continents are dwarfed by the oceans surrounding them and the immensity of the marine realm. [...] A growing body of scientific evidence that demonstrates what we at Greenpeace have been saying for a long time: that the establishment of large-scale networks of marine reserves, urgently needed to protect marine species and their habitats, could be key to reversing global fisheries decline. [...] |
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