En Afrique du Sud, Mike Rutzen, passionné de requins, a appris à décrypter leurs comportements et adapte ses attitudes quand il plonge au milieu de ces squales. Le plus dangeureux des predateurs des mers Le grand blanc
A keeper holds the first Spiny turtle to be bred in the UK in the turtle breeding room at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England. The turtle, who’s species is faced with extinction in the wild, was bred from two animals confiscated from an illegal haul by wildlife authorities in Hong Kong. Photo by: PHIL [...]
Protestors hold placards during a demonstration against the extraction of oil from Canada’s tar sands outside the Houses of Parliament as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives to address Britain’s Parliament, London. Photo by: PAUL HACKETT
A camel train carries tourists on a sunset safari along Cable Beach located near the northwestern Australian town of Broome. The town located on the northern coast of Western Australia, is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from Australia and around the world, many of whom watch spectacular sunsets along the white sands of Cable [...]
Freight trains are seen loaded with coal at a coal mine company in Huaibei, Anhui province, China. China is considering plans to cut coal consumption in some major industrial regions, people familiar with the policy said, as part of measures to reduce air pollution – an issue that has triggered a surge in public protests. [...]
A woman talks on a portable phone while holding a banner against genetically modified food during a rally organized by NGOs to mark the World Environment Day in Bucharest, Romania. Photo by: BOGDAN CRISTEL
A cook throws away leftovers in the ‘Auf da Muehle’ restaurant in the western Austrian village of Soell. Andreas Koller, the owner of the restaurant, says only about 5-10 percent of all food there is thrown away. The waste food is collected and sent weekly to a biogas plant, where it is used to help [...]
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) officials measure the size of an adult male elephant during a collaring exercise in a remote area of South Sudan, whose location cannot be disclosed due to issues of accelerating poaching, June 3, 2013. WCS, in partnership with South Sudan’s Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism, is attaching GPS-satellite collars to [...]
Amazon Indians from different tribes meet with government envoys about their response to a government proposal to negotiate their occupation of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction site, in Vitoria do Xingu, near Altamira in Para State, Brazil. Indians from various tribes continued to force the suspension for the second time in a month of [...]
Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and [...]
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Biologist John Odenkirk handles a large northern snakehead fish aboard his stunboat in waters off the Potomac River, Virginia, USA. They’re big, they’re tough, and they can be as slimy as a St. Bernard’s drool, but northern snakehead fish may be getting a bad rap as an unstoppable [...]
A man swims in the polluted waters of river Yamuna on a hot day in New Delhi, India. Temperatures in New Delhi on Wednesday reached 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit), according to India’s meteorological department. Photo by: MANSI THAPLIYAL
Demonstrators carry signs at the entrance to Chevron corporate headquarters in San Ramon, California, USA. As the fracking debate heats up in Chevron’s home state of California, its shareholders will weigh in again on whether it should take a close look at its extraction of gas from shale. Photo by: ROBERT GALBRAITH
A Turkish riot policeman uses tear gas as people protest against the destruction of trees in a park brought about by a pedestrian project, in Taksim Square in central Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by: OSMAN ORSAL