On 24 Feb 2012 in the Port of Taranaki, New Zealand seven Greenpeace activists including actor Lucy Lawless scaled the derrick on a drillship commissioned by Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic. American Spirit by Jeremy Macachor, Creative...

A year of action led campaigning in 2011.

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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).

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...