We went to some topless beaches.

Control of ports, coasts and beaches

Enric Sala Glimpses of a pristine ocean

Some beaches had failed to comply with environmental regulations.

On nesting beaches, they entangle young ones (Ross, 1987).

But we have started studying pristine reefs only very recently.

And when you go to the pristine side, did this ever bleach?

Narrator Eventually, these beasts are going to live in herds on the beaches.

Theo Jansen I want to put these forms of life on the beaches.

There are still places in the sea as pristine as I knew as a child.

Now, when the debris washes up on the beaches of Hawaii it looks like this.

Tourism thrives on a pristine environment, and it therefore provides fertile ground for testing innovative policies.

This rebirth of grass. And then I went out for years trying to photograph the pristine landscape.

When we went to pristine reefs, we realized that the natural world was upside down this pyramid was inverted.

According to Iraq, the environments in the Claimants' countries were not in pristine condition before the invasion and occupation.

We wouldn't tolerate our parks being swamped by human sewage, but beaches are closed a lot in our country.

Iraq states that the stretch of coast impacted by the 1991 oil spills was not pristine before the oil spills.

In 1959, the determination of States to protect the pristine and unique environment of Antarctica resulted in the Antarctic Treaty.

It's 115 miles of mapped passage, it's pristine, it has no natural opening and it's a gigantic biological, geo microbiological laboratory.

In support of this loss, the claimant provided the Iraqi dinars and the ostensibly original 1990 transaction documents, which appeared pristine.

The debate over the impact that new nickel projects will have on New Caledonia's pristine maritime environment began some years ago.

The average annual amount of litter cleaned up on those beaches is 6,000 to 8,000 m3 (20 26 m3 per km).

According to Saudi Arabia, 130,000 wading birds (mainly plovers and sandpipers) are normally found between March and May on its beaches.

Talk to me about the feeling that you must have experienced of going to these pristine areas and seeing things coming back.

Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine coral reef, a virgin coral reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.

And on my dive, I went down 18,000 feet, to an area that I thought would be pristine wilderness area on the sea floor.

They're built on the hills, inland from the beaches in Rio, and you can see that the houses are just cantilevered over the natural obstructions.

This sea is an archipelago belonging to Kiribati that spans across the equator and it has several uninhabited, unfished, pristine islands and a few inhabited islands.

We tried it out, first in Luton famous for its airport and not much else, I fear and in Blackpool famous for its beaches and leisure.

The decision has an obvious public relations dimension. Oil contaminated birds and beaches make appalling pictures, whereas dead fish and shrimp larvae go unnoticed by cameras.

Swedish municipalities on the country's west coast (facing the North Sea) spend an estimated 1.6 million on cleaning beaches each year (involving only about 3,600 km).

It happens because we have jammed so much into the base of the natural ocean pyramid that these bacteria clog it up and overfill onto our beaches.

It's a shrimp like animal called the stomatopod, and here's how it moves on the beaches of Panama it actually rolls, and it can even roll uphill.

Four years ago, I was at the beach with my son, and he was learning how to swim in this relatively soft surf of the Delaware beaches.

And if we look at a very pristine environment like western Australia, Lars Bider has done work comparing dolphin behavior and distribution before there were dolphin watching boats.

For example, the Panel noted that some documents that purported to be original pre invasion documents were in pristine condition, although they ostensibly were more than a decade old.

So it was a very daunting task for us to do a brand new building that could keep the be a pristine building, but keep this kind of experimental nature.

More than six decades of bombing had contaminated the waters and beaches of Vieques, not only damaging the local economy but also seriously endangering the health of the population.

Each cylinder is about 10 percent ancient air, a pristine time capsule of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide all unchanged from the day that snow formed and first fell.

You can see the Lispenard Meadows draining down through here, through what is TriBeCa now, and the beaches that come up from the Battery, all the way to 42nd St.

At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.

I have fought in wars, feared for my own survival, watched my cohorts die on beaches and woods that look and feel more real than any textbook or any news story.

FLORENCE Summer is a time for beaches and relaxation and, historically, for all sorts of destructive crises. Time and again, it has proven dangerous for the world to be on holiday.

A rich vegetation, unspoiled beaches, yachting marinas and fine coral reefs make the islands a natural tourist destination, and tourism continues to be the most important economic sector for the Territory.

We capture it in a very special device on the front of the submersible that allows us to bring it up in really pristine condition, bring it into the lab on the ship.