Impacts
Photos that illustrate the impact that individual, often careless, actions can have on the environment
Read MoreThe Atlantic coast of North Africa
The sea, or the nearest river, is often the local dump when there are no alternatives
Party balloons really piss me off. Do the people that release them imagine that they are magically sustained for eternity by a combination of fairy-farts and the gasses produced by the decaying, mawkish sentiments that they sent them into the sky with ? Every tragic commemoration on local news is accompanied by film of dozens of the bloody things being released to become snagged in the tops of trees 3 miles away or, like this one on a remote beach, slowly disintegrating into the sea. Buy some prayer flags and tie 'em to your clothes line