Today is the day we have been all been waiting for, and we have some exciting news to share with you. When we planned this expedition, our ambition was big already — to ski to the North Pole to lower a special pod and a flag for the...

Every couple of months, something bizarre happens at work that convinces me I must have one of the strangest jobs on the planet. And these moments often come in the form of a question. Questions like, “Did One Direction’s tweet...

On the anniversary of Bella Laboucan-Massimo’s unresolved death, No More Silence, Families of Sisters in Spirit and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network launched an important new website ItStartsWithUs-MMIW.com to document Murdered...

Take action now: Email Minister McKenna to tell her to keep COREXIT banned in Canada.   I’ve got bad news. Canada’s new Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has approved the use of the toxic chemical dispersant COREXIT when...

Last Friday a coalition of organisations including the Washington Biotech Action Council, Ecoropa, Women in Europe for a Common Future, EcoNexus and Greenpeace organized a talk on GE fish during lunchtime at the Biosafety Protocol...

We all have questions about the BP Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, not least of which being 'what can I do to help?' Here are a few answers. How will the spill harm people and wildlife in the area, and for how long...

After a legal victory earlier this year for B.C.’s resident orcas, Greenpeace is once again looking to the courts to force the protection of endangered and threatened species in Canada. This fall, Ecojustice , on behalf of five...

When you see a bully in action, the best response is to peacefully, but firmly, stand up to them. And right now, the Harper government is acting like a bully in its desperation to get new tar sands pipelines built through British...

1968. That was a hell of a year. The people were on the streets, revolution
 was in the air, we released the White Album, and perhaps the most
 influential photograph of all time was taken by an astronaut called William
 Anders.
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Calling Shell is easy, watch our video for ideas on what you might say. Oh to be a fly on the wall of a Shell boardroom this week! Activists all round the world have been taking action to #TellShell to get out of the Arctic. ...

On May 1st, Greenpeace activists from 13 different countries took part in a large scale action to block and slow down the progress of an ice breaker contracted to Shell, as it began its progress from Finland to Alaska, from where it...

In an effort to prevent destructive oil drilling in the Arctic , dozens of Greenpeace Nordic activists have boarded and occupied a Shell-contracted icebreaker in Helsinki harbour as it prepared to leave for the Alaskan Arctic. At...

Sea otter at rehabilitation centre in Valdez after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Today, the US Government approved Shell’s oil spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea, a remote expanse of ocean that must count as one of...

The latest graph out of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre paints a chilling picture of our warming world. It shows that we are currently on track to surpass 2007 for the lowest extent of Arctic sea ice since satellite...

Christine Leclerc of Vancouver was one of 18 activists who braved freezing seas to scale the huge legs of the Cairn Energy oil-drilling rig the Leiv Eiriksson at 5 a.m. Greenland time. The action occurred about 180 kilometres off the...

Today, after a precedent setting ruling by a B.C. federal court judge, there is some real hope for B.C.’s resident killer whales. It is far too infrequent that the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is actually forced to...

I delivered yesterday a strong message on behalf of Greenpeace to the 160+ countries gathered in Nagoya (Japan) for the Biosafety Protocol: Ban GE fish ! Here’s an edited extract of Greenpeace's call:   ‘ It is clear that the...

Few hours away from the official opening of the UN meeting of the Protocol on Biosafety that will take place in Nagoya (Japon) between 11 and 15 october, some 2,000 colourful demonstrators ( diaporama ; disporama2 ) took to the...

It was more devastating than I imagined, and that’s saying something considering the descriptions and pictures I’ve been exposed to over the years. The plastic pollution covering Freedom Island in Metro Manila, Philippines is...

Oral Statement given by Barbara Stowe to the Joint Review Panel on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Thursday, January 17th, afternoon, 2013.  When I was thinking about what I wanted to say here, the words of...

License   Some rights reserved  by  Bart Fields  photo credit:  bart fields We’ve made our list. We’ve checked it twice. Now, it’s time to find out which Canadians will be getting a stocking full of eco-friendly goodies and...

Conservation groups in Alberta are hoping that US environmental groups will help raise awareness about the plight of woodland caribou in the tarsands region of the province. In Alberta, the main threat to caribou - a threatened species...

Last summer the Ontario government tried to sneak through changes to several environmental laws in its omnibus budget bill. One of the changes it attempted to make was an overhaul of the Endangered Species Act. The proposed changes...

Shedding light on a forgotten oil spill disaster in Russia, Greenpeace has today released a multimedia website documenting the impact of the pollution, warning for the potential of a similar disaster in the Arctic Ocean. ...

This week, people like you and me, all around the world, stood up to #tellshell – no. We don’t have as much money as Shell but we do have courage and creativity on our side and with a million people already signed up to our scroll to...

Shell is getting ready to start exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Alaska. This week, activists all around the world are joining together to save the Arctic and tell the company to halt its dangerous plans . If you’re on...

In the freezing seas off Greenland, activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza are taking direct action against oil drilling in the Arctic. Luke and Sigurd are now hanging from the underside of Cairn Energy’s giant oil rig in...

As our way of marking the anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, Greenpeace has put on-line a searchable database of over 30,000 documents related to the Macondo disaster. Now we need your help to tell us what we’ve got. In...

Today, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that they are ending this year’s Antarctic whaling season early, and have called the fleet back to port. This is fantastic news, and not a moment too soon.

A new no-take zone bans purse seine fishing from 4.5 million km2 over five areas of international waters of the Pacific New Year’s Day is often a day of resolutions, of sleeping in and of new beginnings. Well, for tuna under...

You know that can of tuna you drop into your supermarket basket every week? Ever wonder what’s in it? Probably not but you might be thinking twice from now on, once you see the results of a recent Greenpeace commissioned study. Much...

Mike G   Greenpeace USA  Since the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded and sank in April, BP has devoted inadequate resources to the oil spill response, withheld information from the world, and denied access to spill sites...