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When you google “microbeads,” calls to ban them pop up in the search results even before the trusty Wikipedia definition. That’s because scientific studies and environmental organizations have shone a spotlight on how these tiny,...
Can fashion save the planet? Through awareness, we evolve. Following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, RIVERBLUE spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most pollutive industries, fashion. Narrated by clean...
By Rex Weyler
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity and the rest of nature this century. Yet, in Election 2011 climate change barely gets a mention from leaders on the campaign trail.
Thanks to our lawyer friends at Ecojustice , at-risk species with habitat along the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker route are closer to receiving the full protection they need from the feds. Shining a light on...
We know climate change is the biggest threat facing our world, which is why it is Greenpeace’s priority campaign. Today’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s highlights the enormous impacts and...
All rights reserved . Credit: Greenpeace 'Give us a kiss, it's World Penguin Day!' It’s World Penguin Day today, April 25 th , and I simply can’t imagine a world that didn’t have penguins in it. So in order to...
Early this year, Greenpeace was tipped off that Canada was being used as a trade route for endangered fin whales . We learned that about a dozen containers of fin whale meat in Iceland’s commercial hunt had landed in the Port of...
Multiple international agreements to ban commercial whaling and stop the trade in endangered species haven’t stopped Iceland’s Kristjan Loftsson. The multi-millionaire continues to thumb his nose at the international community and...
ACT: Oil spills in the ocean are toxic enough, adding COREXIT makes it 52 times more toxic . Click here to email Environment Canada today and ask them to ban COREXIT. In yet another case of the Harper government ignoring...
The home of the last few Japanese dugongs is about to be landfilled to make way for two airstrips - part of the expansion of a US military base on the island of Okinawa. But a movement nearly 18 years old is standing up to say NO.
When people talk about Walmart, the words sustainability or social responsibility rarely come up in a positive way. As the largest retailer in the world, the company doesn’t exactly scream sustainable, and its labour policies at its...
Local communities are once again on the front lines of efforts to keep our west coast pristine. Save Howe Sound is a local group of citizens who keep an eye on the world class beauty Howe Sound. They are promoting awareness of the...
Wikipedia says that sleight of hand is the set of techniques used by a magician to manipulate objects secretly. The word sleight comes from the Old Norse language meaning cleverness, cunning, slyness. Well, despite being a ‘have’...
Two weeks ago, First Nations stood up for Canada’s coastal waters and lands in a courageous manner. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation, the “People of the Inlet”, launched a legal challenge of the National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of the...
© Michael Nagle / Greenpeace It has been an awesome summer. Greenpeace has been in the Arctic continuously for months, bearing witness to the extraordinary changes, challenging outrageous attempts to find oil , explaining to...
Why is tuna served in every cafeteria and at every buffet? Joanna Solotoff tells us how this happened (spoiler alert: not an accident ) and creates one of those early dishes. For way more about how tuna became the 'go to'...
Indigenous peoples are bound to the land; a connection created when our ancestors first walked the earth has been passed down from generation to generation. The desire to protect Mother Earth is innate within many indigenous peoples-...
Looking back on an incredible year for the environmental movement, here are some of the best images captured for Greenpeace in Canada and around the world in 2015. Over 25000 citizens marched in Quebec City on April 11,...
Often as an environmental campaigner, I find myself thinking the planet would be in much better shape if more thought was given, and caution taken, before industries are given free rein to exploit its precious natural resources. Not to...
Shell’s spectacular series of mishaps in Alaska has definitely not been going down unnoticed in the oil industry. The Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil is slowing down plans to drill for oil in US Arctic waters after Shell’s...
An unexpected thing happened last night: One of the biggest oil companies in the world -- Shell -- made a big decision acknowledging that the oil industry cannot operate safely in the Arctic. A decision that means one year of relief...
Since Shell's Kulluk rig ran aground off Alaska, the US Department of Interior and the US Coast Guard have both launched independent investigations to find out what went wrong with the company's drilling operations in the far north. ...
It’s not every day you’re asked to hand out an award. Especially not to Shell. But today, after a lengthy series of mishaps in the Arctic, the time has finally come. Do you, like us, think that Shell is the most irresponsible company...
A pod of orcas have finally escaped from what was seen as an increasingly precarious situation. The heartbreaking images of orcas trapped in the ice have been shared around the world as people grew more and more concerned of the danger...
Earth Day 2018’s theme is to End Plastic Pollution, and Greenpeace Canada is rising to the challenge with the launch of our brand new project that’s a bit different from the way we usually tackle environmental problems. Because...
As part of a global week of action, Greenpeace Canada activists visited Coca-Cola’s Canadian headquarters to urge Coke’s leadership to give some good will to marine life this holiday season and stop choking our oceans with its...
Our oceans are massive and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across the globe. So it begs the question: does creating a protected area really work? ...
All rights reserved . Credit: Kaizen Nguyễn Greenpeace have been campaigning to raise awareness of the harmful impact plastics have on our oceans for several years: from microbeads to single-use plastics such as...
The International Boreal Conservation Science Panel, which is made up of leading environmental experts, released a report today which calls for at least 50% “strict protection” of Canada’s sensitive Boreal Forest. The scientists point...
The Canadian Environmental Commissioner released a scathing report yesterday, which highlights the major gap between the federal government’s commitments and actual action. While the government has gained political capital by creating...
This month Greenpeace launched Forest Solutions: An insider’s look at Greenpeace collaborations in forest regions around the world . Wirendro Sumargo, Forest Campaigner for Greenpeace in Indonesia shares his perspectives...
Yesterday, the voices of voters from across Canada were heard loud and clear. After nearly a decade, Harper's rule is now behind us and we have a brand new opportunity to turn this country around. It's now time to say yes to a sunny...
After months of anticipation, Canada Safeway has officially unveiled its new line of SAFEWAY brand canned skipjack (chunk light and flaked light) tuna. And why should you fellow ocean-lovers care? Because the skipjack isn’t sourced...
Last week, the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza (Espy) trailed an unregulated Cambodian-flagged reefer named Heng Xing 1 in the Pacific ocean after catching it in the act of violating various fishing laws, including the transfer of tuna at...
Last summer Korea shocked the international community by announcing it would start ‘scientific’ whaling. Surprised by the controversy, our government took a step back and told the media that they will consult with the various...
Sometimes the world seems upside down, especially when you see that self-censorship is used as a shield to resist the truth. That’s what happened this week, when Australia’s biggest tuna brand, John West, blocked its Facebook page from...
Last week, B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s government gave the green light to allow yet another salmon farm in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. If you’ve read anything about the state of the salmon farming industry as of late...
After making over 20 stops across Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, the Sustainable Tuna Tour has come to an end, but Greenpeace’s public awareness and mobilization campaign against Canada’s biggest brand of unsustainable canned tuna...
The Maritime leg of Greenpeace's Sustainable Tuna Tour kicked off today in Fredericton, New Brunswick - my home town! Over the next 10 days we will be visiting towns, villages and cities in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and...
Greenpeace has set off on a four week Sustainable Tuna Tour across Quebec and the Maritimes. We’ll be popping up in over 20 small towns and cities to raise awareness about what it takes to get those cans of tuna off the shelf at...
Last week, Greenpeace joined Friends of Clayoquot Sound (FOCS) , Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations, Living Oceans Society, Georgia Strait Alliance, Wilderness Committee, T. Buck Suzuki Foundation, and the David Suzuki Foundation in calling...
On Thursday, July 19 th Greenpeace welcomed a plan presented by the European Commission to ban some of the most environmentally damaging fishing practices, under a review of EU rules governing deep-sea fishing in the Northeast and...
For a long time organisations like Greenpeace, backed by people like you, have been calling for stronger protection of our oceans. This week showed our voices were heard. The Australian Federal Environment Minister...
There is consensus. Too many big tuna fishing boats are chasing declining tuna populations. Environmentalists know this; the tuna industry knows it and governments, scientists and fishermen know that if we want fish tomorrow, we...
Today, on World Oceans Day, a shark and some Greenpeace volunteers took to the streets to ask Vancouverites to urge Clover Leaf, Canada's largest brand of unsustainable tuna, to honour the day by committing to switch to sourcing only...
Established during the first Rio conference in 1992, World Oceans Day is, 20 years later, an opportunity for us to look at the state of this important ecosystem. Oceans give life Even though our oceans represent three...
It’s only a few weeks until the Rio+20 Earth Summit and although the countdown has started, the world’s politicians still don’t understand that our long-term future is at stake. Our future depends on protecting the global...
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