Greenpeace news

Greenpeace races to reach disintegrating glacier

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:21:15 GMT

While Keisha Castle-Hughes tours the Pacific documenting climate impacts aboard the Esperanza, another of our ships, The Arctic Sunrise is currently heading north along the west coast of Greenland in a race against time. It's destination is the disintegrating Petermann Glacier, but to reach the glacier our ship must pass through the Nares Strait, which could be flooded with dangerous sea ice at any moment.

Swimming towards a coal ship

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

After a 19 hour stand-off the climbing team on the mast of the E.on coal ship have been served an injunction and are now coming down.

Greenpeace – Yes Men spoof newspaper declares climate deal

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:28:16 GMT

Readers of a free copy of the International Herald Tribune in Brussels today may have done a double take when they saw headlines like “Markets Soar on News of Copenhagen Climate Deal” and “Atmosphere Named World Heritage Site.” That’s because the newspaper, datelined six months into the future, was brought to them by Greenpeace and the Yes Men.

Climate challenge even greater after UN meeting in Bonn

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:19:08 GMT

As another round of climate talks limps to a close in Bonn, Germany, and the UN Climate Summit to be held in Copenhagen this December draws closer, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at the progress (or otherwise) that’s been made so far…

New leadership for Greenpeace International

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:30:29 GMT

Greenpeace will soon have a new leader. Kumi Naidoo will take up the role of Executive Director of Greenpeace International in November 2009, when Gerd Leipold steps down after nearly nine years as our activist-in-chief.

Greenpeace t-shirts: a retrospective in a whaling town

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:59:08 GMT

A new exhibit in Aomori, Japan, gives a glimpse of Greenpeace history through one of our iconic communication tools: the t-shirt.

A Time Comes: What it means to take action

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:58:25 GMT

The six Greenpeace activists who shut down a coal power station last year made history when a UK jury agreed that they were acting to safeguard property from the impacts of climate change. A new documentary takes you behind the scenes of that action, and into the heart of what Greenpeace and non-violent direct action is all about.

Billions up in smoke

Thu, 21 May 2009 06:09:08 GMT

Greenpeace beamed messages such as "Billions up in smoke" and "Time to Evolve" onto a cooling tower at Loy Yang A Power Station in Victoria's La Trobe Valley.

Justice for the Tokyo Two - justice for whales, coming our way?

Sat, 16 May 2009 23:16:19 GMT

Justice is starting to go the Tokyo Two way: A court in Aomori, Japan, has delivered a series of setbacks to the prosecution in the trial of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki (the activists known as the Tokyo Two) - and the Japanese government's attempts to cover up an embezzlement scandal within the whaling industry.

Can Statoil wash its hands of the Tar Sands?

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The largest industrial project in the world. The largest capital investment in history. The world’s second largest oil field. The Canadian Tar Sands show just how desperate the oil industry is to feed its carbon habit. Now, thanks to a Greenpeace campaign investors are starting to question the wisdom paying for a project which will destroy an area of forest the size of England, then poison the ground and condemn the world to runaway climate change.

Celebrating 10 years of saving the Amazon Rainforest

Mon, 11 May 2009 22:55:14 GMT

Ten years ago, we set up an office in Manaus, a city inaccessible except by boat or plane, in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, and began exposing illegal logging. Just three years later our campaign heralded the end of the illegal mahogany trade in Brazil. Since then we have been uncovering further forest crimes and persuading the Brazilian government and corporations like McDonald's to take action against forest destruction - and in so doing, protect our planet from runaway climate change.

As we celebrate our 10th year working in the Amazon it is more important than ever before to end deforestation.

Suicidal Tuna Fisheries

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Turkish government has set its own catch limit for the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna - in total disregard for internationally agreed quotas and scientific advice.

While Stocks Last

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Today in downtown Auckland Greenpeace opened a seafood cafe of the future - Jellyfish de Jour. The menu includes such delights as Whole Baked Jellyfish Platter with Thai Vegetables, Jellyfish Bisque, and Blackened Cajun Jellyfish.

It's the ecology, stupid!

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:07:43 GMT

As senior diplomats and politicians from 17 countries headed towards the US State Department building in Washington DC, this morning, they couldn’t have missed a couple of Greenpeace climbers dangling below a huge banner bearing a picture of our beautiful blue planet and the words “Too big to fail”.

This Earth Day

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This Earth Day, help us turn 3 million people into climate activists: starting with you.

Here at Greenpeace, we're pushers of a controlled substance. It's called hope. And our new "Inspiring Action" video is dizzy with it.

Germany bans Monsanto's maize

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:44:07 GMT

We're thrilled with an historic victory against genetically engineered crops. Germany has just announced that it will become the sixth EU country to ban the cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) maize MON810 - the only GE crop that can be commercially grown in the region.

Whaling, lies and cover-ups must stop

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:06:24 GMT

Shrouded in the early morning gloom, the Japanese whaling fleet factory ship, Nisshin Maru, crept back into port without the usual fanfare. In fact, the only greeting party was comprised of our activists.

Climate negotiators back out again in Bonn

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Another round of climate talks is over, this time in Bonn, Germany. Once again negotiators are leaving without a plan or having left any money on the table to tackle climate change.

Antarctic ice-bridge snaps, as Obama offers a chance for climate action

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:53:14 GMT

Patience for world leaders talking about tackling climate change is wearing thin. Just as US President Barack Obama addressed a crowd of thousands in Prague on Sunday, Greenpeace activists unveiled a banner urging him to "lead the change on climate", a challenge Obama accepted in his speech.

Spook scandal: the hidden face of the nuclear industry

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:40:16 GMT

Twenty-four years after the attack by the French secret services against our ship the Rainbow Warrior here in Auckland - which cost the life of a Greenpeace photographer - the nuclear industry is once again at the heart a major spy scandal involving Greenpeace.