Environmental Graffiti

The Enthralling Symmetry of Beach Umbrellas

A day at the beach: people, beach towels, chairs, sand, the smell of sun tan lotion, sea, sun and beach umbrellas. What seems like random beach activity is actually quite an organised environment, from colours to chairs to those saviours of the pale – the beach umbrellas whose arrangements structure life at the beach. See for yourself how the whole beach experience has become less haphazard and more picturesque.

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Beachgoers Leave 6 Million Tons of Trash

If you pay any attention to the media-driven vision of the beach, you understand that it’s a pristine, beautiful place that we all go to on vacation, and leave no trace of our existence on once we leave.  Image from Hans Van Reenen on Flickr The Ocean [...]

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Mutilated Dolphins Wash Up on UK Beaches

Conservationists are in a panic over the increasingly large numbers of mutilated sea mammals appearing on British shores. Image by Kiwi Sonja 28 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on southwest England’s beaches since the new year, compared to 80 during all of 2007. Conservationists

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