Fierce Girls

09/08/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAjDDQl0Yw

Watch the official Music Video for Vivo, an animation movie starring Lin-Manuel Miranda & Zoe Saldana. Vivo arrives on Netflix August 6.Lin-Manuel Miranda wr...

02/08/2021

FG - As environmental issues go, this is pretty bad.

"Over time the pellets, which will take up to 1,000 years to disintegrate, may build up in the food chain, sickening fish and potentially humans, Withanage said. "When it comes to the environment, every plastic nurdle is a disaster.”

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/oil-acid-plastic-inside-shipping-disaster-gripping-sri-lanka?fbclid=IwAR17Rvn9ophkKoEK-RjuqEsEB2VJ-rC0G1yV8T-yNfTnpRDMjzJiaVzfuPE

UNEP experts are working with Sri Lanka on how to contain the toxic fallout from the X-Press Pearl shipping disaster.

26/07/2021

When those making the rules are living in the dark ages.

The European Handball Federation says its disciplinary commission has dealt with "a case of improper clothing" after the Norway team elected to wear bike shorts instead of bikini bottoms.

24/06/2021

In Cairns. Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef.

01/06/2021

Beautiful artwork from horrible ghost nets.

26/05/2021

Great winning work from our favourite Australian surfer!

Australian surf star Sally Fitzgibbons sent a message to her Olympic rivals with victory at the World Surf League event at Rottnest Island

24/05/2021

17/05/2021

Office chair cushion made out of recycled t-shirts that could no longer be repaired.
Great job by my daughter; my new favourite thing!

09/05/2021

Clean-up on Dixon Park Beach yesterday.
The Australian Governments Plastic Plan 2021 says -
"By 2050, it is estimated that plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish".

06/05/2021

In 2019 our home University completed this study. It is so more important today as each time we complete a beach clean-up, we seem to find more rubbish.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/11/health/microplastics-ingestion-wwf-study-scn-intl/index.html #:~:text=Globally%2C%20we%20are%20ingesting%20an,water%20and%20even%20the%20air.

Worldwide, people ingest an average of 5 grams of plastic every week, the equivalent of a credit card, a new study suggests.

28/04/2021

It is still a few years away, however hosting team from 16 countries for a World Cup is fantastic.

Australia wins the right to host the 2027 Netball World Cup for the fourth time, with Sydney to welcome the game's best players at the quadrennial event.

26/04/2021

It's been quite a while since we posted anything, however we are still here working hard. On the weekend we completed our 23rd beach clean-up since May 2020.