If there was a substance that could cause birth defects, affect brain development, promote breast cancer, prostate cancer and diabetes, change the gender of wild fish, increase heart disease, decrease your chance to have children and make you obese, where is the last place you would put it? In your food? In a baby’s drinking bottle?

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Sunday is World Fisheries Day, but in 2010 is this a day for celebration or protest?

We are facing a food security crisis. Globally, fish provides 1.5 billion people with a fifth of their protein. According to the UN we need an extra 37 million tonnes per year to supply our growing population by 2030. Given that half of global fish stocks are fully fished and a quarter are overfished can we really fill the shortfall in this time?

Every now again it's good to get back to basics and to remind yourself what's really going on with climate change.  Greenpeace have recently produced this fantastically simple and human film that does just this. Click Read more to watch the video...