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6 reasons the Great Barrier Reef needs you to divest right now
|A green returning to the ocean after laying her eggs on Heron Island overnight. The excursion to Heron Island is a fact finding mission to a research station there as part of Greenpeace’s Save the Reef campaign.|Fringing coral reefs off Holbourne Island National Park display the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The…
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6 tips for a sustainable school year!
School’s back in! Whether you’ve already got everything you need for the school year or not - here are six tips to help you think about the planet and your child’s education.
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16 breathtaking photos of wetlands around the world
It's World Wetlands Day! Today marks the 44th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (otherwise known as the Ramsar Convention).
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The massive marine breakthrough we’ve been waiting for
| It is time for Ocean Lovers worldwide to celebrate! After years of political foot-dragging, and four hectic days of negotiations at the United Nations, a breakthrough came in the wee hours of Saturday morning, 24 January: governments around the world agreed to develop a legally-binding treaty to protect marine life beyond national territorial waters.…
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Clean air doesn’t come to those who wait
“One thing that fascinated and shocked me the most was the fact that even on smoggy days, people still lived their lives as usual,” said Chinese film director Jia Zhangke last week as the air outside in Beijing was a thick, soupy grey. “When the Air Quality Index hit 200 or 300, and the air…
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Tropical deforestation is bad news – the science keeps telling us
Deforestation is very bad news for the environment and for the climate. Deforestation is very bad news for the environment and for the climate. It is bad news for biodiversity and releases greenhouses gases into the atmosphere – we know that. But the science is increasingly certain that deforestation is bad for agriculture too. It…
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7 Resolutions for Ocean Lovers
One week in to 2015, and even though some New Year’s resolutions will already have fallen by the wayside, we all need to urgently think about one more resolution: The resolution to protect the oceans and all its beautiful whales, turtles, tunas and sharks. I don’t need to tell you that the oceans are under…
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What was 2014’s greenest country?
Today, thinking about sustainable living is one of the only ways to picture a future for all of us on Earth. On a small scale, individuals can try to limit their carbon footprints by recycling, using renewable power and buying and consuming local and organic products. But what about the bigger picture – the habits…