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Thule Air Base, North-West Greenland Thule Air Base is the U.S. Armed Forces' northernmost installation, surrounded by arctic environment offering spectacular scenery,including majestic icebergs in the North Star Bay. - On January 21, 1968, a US military pl...

By Peter Prokosch

Nuclear Icebreaker "Arctica", Murmansk, Russia Positioned at 69 ‐ 00.N; 33 ‐04.E, the port of Murmansk is the world's largest port located North of polar circle. It is situated on the Kola peninsula at the coast of Barents Sea. It is the most Northern nonfreezing po...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20 Poster At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to shape how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensur...

By Peter Prokosch

Marine garbage: fishing nets with dead eider duck, Westerhever, German Wadden Sea Garbage has always been discarded into the ocean, but since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventu...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Marine garbage: fishing nets, Westerhever, German Wadden Sea Garbage has always been discarded into the ocean, but since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventu...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Kongsfjord, Spitzbergen, Svalbard Kongsfjord with the "Seven Sisters", the mountains in the background peaking out the glaciers, as seen from the air pollution monitoring station above the research village Ny Ålesund. At the monitoring station pollutants...

By Peter Prokosch

Litter on the beach, Seychelles The Republic of Seychelles comprises of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, around 1,600km East of Africa. The Seychelles is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is famous for it's beautiful beaches for containing th...

By Lawrence Hislop

Littered beach, Bali, Indonesia The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali Once their root system is established, Mangroves provide the perfect habitat for shrimps, lobsters and oysters. They also slow the water flow around the root area, improving coastal water quality, providing the necessary...

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali In Bali the mangroves are experiencing stress due to rising sea levels and a changing climate, or are being replaced by shrimp farms and repercussions of human development such as pollution and silt run-off. All of this ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Hippoptamus (Hipppotamus Amphibius), Lake Naivasha The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other is the Pygmy Hippopotamus). The hippopot...

By Peter Prokosch

Litter at the docks, Seychelles The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

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