Exactly 200 days from today I'll embark on my next desert running challenge – The Last Desert Race, 250km through the snow of Antarctica!

I've completed various multi-stage desert races over the past few years – Kalahari, Sahara, Namib, Gobi and Burk... Read more >

As a collective of individuals we managed to save enough power during this year’s Earth Hour to power a city the size of Polokwane in South Africa.  This proves that the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF- http://www.earthhour.org/) initiative is growi...

It appears public, peaceful protesting has come under attack. Last week a brave Rosina Gonzalez, along with 5 other activists, of Greenpeace Mexico took to the streets to demonstrate their support for clean and safe renewable energy. Here’s Rosina’s s... Read more >

We’re at the fishing port of Mbour, 80 km from Dakar, one of the largest ports in Senegal. After spending 8 hours at sea defying waves and bad weather with low morale, Ndiaga Diop, a local fisherman, returns home with an almost empty net. Fish, which ... Read more >

We know climate change is the biggest threat facing our world, which is why it is Greenpeace’s priority campaign. The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)highlights the enormous impacts and consequences climate change ...

Almost all of the logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo is illegal, says a new report by the UK-based think tank, Chatham House. Though the figure of 87% is a startling one, it is not surprising for those of us here at Greenpeace who have been...

Whales everywhere will be jumping for joy today. Why? Japan’s sham ‘scientific whaling’ programme has just been declared ILLEGAL in an international court!

UPDATE:  The Government of Japan has officially cancelled plans to hunt whales in the Southern... Read more >

The lives of hundreds of thousands of people continue to be affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, especially the 160 000 who fled their homes because of radioactive contamination, and continue to live in limbo without fair, just, and timely comp... Read more >

It wasn’t just a shout that reverberated across my country Senegal: it was so much more. It was a cry that erupted from artisanal fishermen, a chorus of "no" to the proposed fisheries agreement between the European Union and Senegal.

From Senegal’s c... Read more >