Beaches open to all, black and white. AWB members (Afrikar Weerstandsbeweging) (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) - sit on the beach near a black family after a demonstration in the city.

George, Tupah and Issa, three migrants hiding in the bushes on a garbage dump outside Nador, waiting to be picked up by the Moroccan traffickers who will smuggle them to secret beaches from where they...

Red Cross volunteers searching the beaches in the Aleipata District. More than 170 people died when a tsunami triggered by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit Samoa and neighbouring Pacific islands on 29/...

A sea bird is washed by volunteers after having been caught in the oil spill. Tens of thousands of birds are in danger after the accident. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saaste...

A dead sea bird lying on the ground outside the bird watching facility in Langesund. Not long after the accident, several environmental organisations created a centre to try and help birds affected by...

WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) volunteers removing oil from the rocks on the island of Straholmen, one of the most pristine areas off the coast of Norway, following an oil spill. The 167 metre long...

Volunteers cleaning up following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000 tons of heavy oil. More than...

A pipe covered in oil emerges from the sea following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000 tons of h...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

A man cleans some of the worst affected areas around Langesund following an oil spill. Warm water is used to wash the rocks. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

A man cleans some of the worst affected areas around Langesund following an oil spill. First the workers gather the oil, then a truck sucks it up. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground a...

Volunteers removing oil from rocks on the island of Straholmen, one of the most pristine areas off the coast of Norway, following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at S...

Gloves of a man working to clean up an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000 tons of heavy oil. More th...

Vegetation covered in oil following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000 tons of heavy oil. More th...

A man cleans some of the worst affected areas around Langesund following an oil spill. First the workers gather the oil, then a truck sucks it up. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground a...

Sea birds are washed by volunteers after having been caught in the oil spill. Tens of thousands of birds are in danger after the accident. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saaste...

A sea bird is washed by volunteers after having been caught in the oil spill. Tens of thousands of birds are in danger after the accident. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saaste...

A dead sea bird lying on the ground outside the bird watching facility in Langesund. Not long after the oil spill, several environmental organisations created a centre to try and help birds affected b...

A volunteer washes a sea bird caught in the oil spill. Not long after the accident, several environmental organisations created a centre to try and help birds affected by the spill. The 167 metre long...

Members of the environmental foundation Bellona head out to inspect a grounded cargo ship following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the tow...

The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City, which ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000 tons of heavy oil. More than 200 tons was spilt into the sea, polluti...

Workers cleaning some of the worst affected areas around Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carryin...

Oil floating on the sea along the coast of Langesund following an oil spill. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south of the town of Langesund, carrying around 1,000...

A man cleans some of the worst affected areas around Langesund following an oil spill. Warm water is used to wash the rocks. The 167 metre long cargo ship Full City ran aground at Saastein, just south...

Tourists crowd the public beaches running along Nice's Mediterranean waterfront, with the distinctive dome of the luxury Negresco Hotel on the Promenade des Anglais behind. Nice is the largest city on...

Tourists looking at the view over Nice and its pubic beaches facing onto the Mediterranean. Nice is the largest city on the French Riviera (Cote d'Azur).

Tourists crowd the public beaches running along Nice's Mediterranean waterfront, with the distinctive dome of the luxury Negresco Hotel on the Promenade des Anglais behind. Nice is the largest city on...

A fisherman beaches his boat after another unsuccessful morning fishing for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea. It is now not uncommon for the fishermen around Bandar-e Anzali to go for weeks without catchin...

Lake Superior Provincial Park. Raised beach between Old Woman Bay and Brule Harbour. Raised beaches are the result of glaciation - terraces indicate the falling level of the lake surface when the glac...

The Amoco Cadiz, a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), split in two after running aground on Portsail Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, France, on March 16, 1978. The first large oil spill in history wit...

Oil slicks in coastal water when the Amoco Cadiz, a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), split in two after running aground on Portsail Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, France, on March 16, 1978. The fir...

Oil slicks in coastal water when the Amoco Cadiz, a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), split in two after running aground on Portsail Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, France, on March 16, 1978. The fir...

Oil slicks in coastal water when the Amoco Cadiz, a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), split in two after running aground on Portsail Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, France, on March 16, 1978. The fir...

Oil slicks in coastal water when the Amoco Cadiz, a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), split in two after running aground on Portsail Rocks, off the coast of Brittany, France, on March 16, 1978. The fir...

Tar residue on a beach east of Lagos. Breakers inscribe the beaches on the Gulf of Guinea with such curves of oil and tar pollution, caused by ships that dump oil residues in the sea - contrary to int...

Lone women are a familiar sight on the beaches here. The 'bumsters' will soon approach and try to sell their wares - and sometimes themselves. Many young Gambian men earn a living by selling sex to fe...

A surfer on the shoreline hunting for the perfect wave. The winds across the Atlantic Ocean create perfect conditions for the surfing off the beaches along this stretch of coast.

Two British veterans of World War II (WW2) sit on a bench on Gold Beach during the annual D-Day commemoration. Gold Beach was one of the two British landing beaches on D-Day on 6th June 1944. The No...

Tourist drinking a cocktail. Lone women are a familiar sight on the beaches here. The 'bumsters' will soon approach and try to sell their wares - and sometimes themselves. Many young Gambian men earn...

View from a hilltop over the coastal town of Choroni. The coastline's palm fringed beaches are popular with both domestic and foreign tourists.

Masai man (Musa) in traditional clothes together with his German girlfriend Brigitta. The beaches around Mombasa are well known to tourists from Europe, not only for their sea, sun and sand but also f...

Kenyan man chatting to young female tourist. The beaches around Mombasa are well known to tourists from Europe, not only for their sea, sun and sand but also for picking up local men and women for sex...

Masai man (Musa) in traditional clothes together with his German girlfriend Brigitta having a drink on the beach. The beaches around Mombasa are well known to tourists from Europe, not only for their...

On the beach in Mombasa a Kenyan man (Ali) shows photographs of his German girlfriend (Sarah). The beaches around Mombasa are well known to tourists from Europe, not only for their sea, sun and sand b...

A friendly game of football on Easter weekend. Bolivians from El Acto and La Paz combine the pilgrimage to the country's most important religious site with a holiday on the 'beaches' of Lake Titicaca...

The Alang ship-breaking yards employ thousands of workers and provide a valuable source of steel, but injuries and deaths, often from explosions, are common. The environmental damage and health risks...

Children attempt to surf on hand-made surf boards, carved out of driftwood. They were inspired by watching foreigners surfing on the beaches near the capital city.

A Masai man, Musa, with his German girlfriend Brigitta. The beaches around Mombasa are well known to tourists from Europe, not only for their sea, sun and sand but also for picking up local men and wo...