Every St. Patrick’s Day swarms of Canadians take to the streets and local pubs dressed in their finest green attire, sipping green beer, wearing green face paint and even leprechaun hats to toast to St. Patrick or just to good times...

There are a few things I know for sure.   The first is that I freeze when I panic. The second is there are indeed special places in the world that inspire movies like Avatar and Lord of the Rings. And the third, my friend Caitlyn...

Ocean stewardship in the Pacific has come a long way. Ask a Pacific islander fifty years ago about managing fish and you would have been greeted with a look of bemusement. After all, fish back in the day were thought of as...

For people concerned about the future of BC’s endangered southern resident orcas, it was a sad day on February 11th when a 3-year-old female washed ashore near Long Beach on the outer Washington coast. Given that fewer than 100...

Too often these days political decision-making is just a front for the big businesses that are really running the show, that is why markets-based campaigning is becoming more and more important. That's why we're campaigning to save...

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 week long meeting of the Pacific tuna commission (WCPFC) ended in what will be one of the worst outcomes for tuna conservation this commission has seen. After over a year of talks and advice from scientists concerned that...

It was a pretty cold and windy day yesterday in Toronto, when Greenpeace volunteers bravely ventured out to Queen St. West to talk to supermarket customers about our new 2012 tuna ranking report. As part...

Greenpeace staff and volunteers are at the annual Green Living Show in Toronto this weekend, talking to thousands of people about out mission and vision for a green and peaceful world.  The trade show is a hub where people come from...

Multi-million dollar US advertising campaign to promote unsustainable canned tuna collapses In March, just a year after the launch of a planned three-year, multi-million dollar advertising push to try and increase sales of...

Greenpeace volunteers were hitting the streets of Toronto this past week, going door to door in Leslieville and the Annex talking to people about Greenpeace's most recent ranking of Canada’s major canned tuna brands and raising...

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...

The White House and BP have been hiding the truth about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf. After almost two years after Greenpeace submitted a Freedom of Information Request for images and information related to the BP...

Today, more than 50 national, provincial and community groups sent an open letter to Premier McGuinty asking him to remove contentious changes to environmental laws from Ontario’s budget bill. The groups believe that any changes to...

On May 8, a book published along Enbridge's proposed tar sands pipeline route launched in New York City. The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres of poetry written in resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal , was...

Last week, the Senegalese government cancelled all fishing permits for foreign“ pelagic trawlers ,” large fishing vessels that drag nets below the surface of the ocean. This should remind leaders that with political will and...

Organowashing. Is that word? Well, we're going to be introduced to this phenomenon when "organic" farmed salmon enters the Canadian market. Yes friends, the farmed salmon saga continues and this time our protagonist will be painted...

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...

For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the...

Over the past few years we’ve seen increased consumer demand for sustainable tuna products. At the moment, the best option on the shelves is pole and line caught skipjack tuna , the population of which is still relatively plentiful...

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...

The Musqueam First Nation have maintained a 24-hour watch over the Marpole Midden village site for the past 26 days to stop further excavation and removal of ancestral remains.  Greenpeace has been down to the Vancouver condo...

Public awareness continues to grow about the damage the Ontario’s government’s budget bill (Bill 55) will inflict on the environment. MPP Jonah Schein (NDP, Davenport) spoke out on the floor of the Ontario Legislature on Monday...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It seems to me that Premier McGuinty’s threat to call a summer election has little to do with balancing the budget and more to do with keeping the public debate away from the major proposed changes to our environmental protection laws...

The time is now. With the northern summer as the backdrop, Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise and the Esperanza cast off this week and set sail for the Arctic. Leaving a little later than the Shell boats and carrying a very diffent type...

Oscar winning actor Jude Law and British rock band Radiohead have joined forces with Greenpeace to produce a film featuring a highly realistic polar bear on London’s streets. The film is part of the Save the Arctic campaign, which...

Speaking from within the headquarters of oil major Shell on Friday, the words of Greenpeace Netherlands executive director Sylvia Borren were clear:  "My first move as the new CEO of Shell is simple and effective: no drilling for oil...

Environment Minister Peter Kent needs to wake up and smell the smog. While the government drags its feet organizing, reviewing, editing, and finalizing it’s legally required national caribou recovery strategy, industrial expansion in...

Shell has spent 4.5 billion dollars buying its way into the Arctic, and the moment of truth has arrived. Right now, two giant drilling vessels are preparing to exploit melting sea ice to drill for more of the oil that is warming our...

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...