Hundreds strip naked on glacier in global warming protest. Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland — An emergency provokes extreme responses: human beings in danger will abandon social niceties, etiquette, and the norms of acceptable behaviour to raise an...

Greenpeace is celebrating ten years of victories for the Amazon Rainforest.

A group of high profile New Zealanders talk about climate change and why they Signed On to ask NZ Prime Minister John Key to go to Copenhagen to Sign NZ On to 40 per cent emissions reduction by 2020.

The celebrity launch of the Greenpeace Sign On campaign http://www.signon.org.nz Climate change is happening faster than anyone expected. In December this year world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to Sign On to a global agreement for action.

A short video outlining the connection between Fonterra, industrial dairying and climate change.

An original poem performed by Rhys Darby in support of the Sign On campaign for 40 per cent emission reductions in New Zealand.

A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that the iconic New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is implicated in Indonesian and Malaysian rainforest destruction, dead orangutans and driving global greenhouse gas emissions.

How Fonterra contributes to New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions and threatens New Zealand's clean green brand.

Following recent action on Fonterra palm kernel imports , Greenpeace activists have once again highlighted a Fonterra climate crime - this time its use of dirty lignite coal in Southland.

A human chain of protesters pile sacks labelled Fonterra palm kernel and Fonterra coal outside Fonterra's corporate headquarters, 24 November 2009, in protest of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the dairy giant's intensive farming practices.

In 2009 Greenpeace exposed Fonterra's impact on climate change through a series of high profile activities revealing the dairy giant's climate crimes in New Zealand and overseas.

Rhys Darby does a polar bear skit at the Sign On Planet A day concert for the climate.

A montage from the Greenpeace NZ Sign On campaign in 2009

Lucy Lawless performs Gloria at the Sign On 'Planet A' concert for the climate.

Greenpeace NZ Executive Director Bunny Mcdiarmid talks about the Copenhagen outcome and the urgent need for action on climate.

This fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs you.

Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm ham it up on the West Coast near Paparoa to help promote the March Against Mining in May 2010.

Sign On ambassadors Lucy Lawless and Robyn Malcolm make a visit to Paparoa National Park -- one of the conservation areas under threat by Gerry Brownlee's plans to mine Schedule 4 land.

We expected 20,000. We HOPED for 30,000. We got nearly double that. In the biggest protest march in living memory, 50,000 turned out on Queen Street today to march against the Government's plan to mine New Zealand's best (Schedule 4) conservation...

We have new evidence which shows that Nestlé - the makers of Kit Kat - are using palm oil produced in areas where the orang-utans' rainforests once grew.

We all deserve to have a break - but having one shouldn't involve taking a bite out of Indonesia's precious rainforests. We're asking Nestlé to give rainforests and orang-utans a break and stop buying palm oil from destroyed forests.

On 18 MAY 2010 Greenpeace activists blocked the fuel depot of Fonterra's Clandeboye factory in Canterbury. The action draws attention to how the company is damaging the climate by choosing to burn coal when cleaner alternatives exist another...

The BP Deepwater Disaster, one month later: Greenpeace oil specialist and marine biologist Paul Horsman visits the Mississippi Delta to see first hand the oil which is beginning to wash onto the shores of delicate coastal ecosystem.

Greenpeace volunteers covered in 'oil', at Muriwai beach' send a strong message to the Government to stop its plans for the drilling of new deep water oil wells off New Zealand's coast.

Our emissions of carbon dioxide threaten to alter the very chemistry of sea water and change life in our oceans within the span of a single human lifetime. An animation by Leo Murray for Greenpeace.

Our hundred year relationship with oil is at a crossroads. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has shone a light on the far reaching consequences that our addiction to oil is having on the natural world and on the climate.

Watch as Sim McKenna - climber and Greenpeace activist - prepares to occupy the Stena Don oil rig as it drills in the deep waters of the Arctic. Hear how his time in the Gulf of Mexico after BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster has helped drive him to...

China’s coal-fired power plants dump enough toxic coal ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes. Our latest report 'The True Cost of Coal: An Investigation into Coal Ash in China' reveals that coal ash has now...

Suzette Jackson describes the heartache of witnessing the expansion into South East Asia's rainforests by the palm products industry. The destruction is funded in part by Fonterra .

Greenpeace activists barricade the entrance to Fonterra's corporate HQ in Auckland and deliver a strong message to Fonterra about it's use of palm kernel.

During TVNZ coverage of the Fonterra results press conference reporters asked Andrew Ferrier directly whether Fonterra supports rainforest destruction. He then revealed a bad case of foot in mouth and threw the comms department a total hospital...

Victor tells the story of how oil companies ended up trying to drill in the North Sea and the Arctic - and how he ended up trying to stop them. Drawings by fellow deckhand Jono Emmon.

NZ dairy giant Fonterra's industrial dairying approach is driving production beyond the limits. NZ cows can no longer be fed on grass alone and Fonterra's dairy herds are fed palm kernel grown on land in South East Asia where rainforests once...

Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo addresses the need for urgent environmental action.

Bearing witness to rainforest destruction in Indonesia. Rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia are being destroyed at such a rate that Indonesia is now the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after the US and China. The...

In the early hours of the morning on Sat 05 Feb, five Greenpeace activists boarded a shipment of palm kernel heading for Port Taranaki and bound for fonterra dairy farms. They held their positions locked in the crane cabs and on the anchor chain...

Tzeporah Berman, co-head of the climate and energy campaign at Greenpeace International, gives a TedX talk about the solution to our current and future energy needs.

In July 2010, Chinese photographer Lu Guang documented the oil spill at the city of Dalian for Greenpeace. The pictures he took portraying the death of firefighter Zhang Liang won a World Press Photo award in 2011 (third prize, spot news stories).

Auckland, Sunday 27 March 2011: This afternoon a support flotilla of 20 yachts, kayaks, tinnys and tira waka escorted a group of four yachts heading to Whangaparāoa Bay by Cape Runaway on the East Cape of the North Island to join te...

Opotiki, 2 April, 2011 - Skippers, crew and activists from the flotilla of boats, which travelled from around the North Island were welcomed today at a hui in Whangaparoa Bay which was attended by an estimated 600 people opposed to deep sea oil...

Activists aboard the flotilla opposing deep sea oil drilling disrupted the seismic testing by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. Swimmers with large visible buoys baring flags with the message 'Stop Deep Sea Oil' entered the water in front of the oil...

The part oil has played in modern human history, how oil can’t have any part in our future, if there’s to be one … and what the alternative is.

http://www.stopdeepseaoil.org.nz 29 April 2011 - The flotilla of boats opposing deep sea oil exploration off East Cape sailed into Tauranga to support fellow skipper Elvis Teddy, of te Wha-nau a- Apanui fishing vessel San Pietro. Elvis Teddy was...

This distressing footage from July 2011 shows the agonising death of an endangered Sumatran tiger in an APP concession in Sumatra, Indonesia. There are less than 400 remaining Sumatran tigers in the wild and that number is rapidly declining as...

The Arctic sea ice is a key indicator of the state of our climate.

The shrinking and receding sea ice has dire consequences. First, as the white ice that normally reflects sunlight away from Earth melts, more of the dark open water of the Arctic Ocean is is exposed, absorbing heat and causing more ice to melt.

The oil prints featured in this video were made with birds killed by the Rena oil spill. They are just two of an estimated 20,000 birds killed after the shipwrecked Rena spilled 350 tonnes of oil into the Bay of Plenty. The images are a stark...

A year of action led campaigning in 2011.