The Save Happy Valley group are celebrating the third anniversary of their occupation of the site threatened by Solid Energy's plans to strip mine the area. Supporters of the environmental group will tramp into the valley, north...

Mount Rushmore National Memorial near South Dakota in the United States, where the faces of former US presidents are set into stone. I cried brushing my teeth this morning, tears mingling with Colgate as I listened to Obama’s...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recently completed a World Bank sponsored review of the logging industry with some positive results. Yet it has allowed an expansion of the industry to more than twice the...

Greenpeace China US Ad This advertisement appears today in China's biggest daily newspaper, to coincide with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Beijing. The ad, and a series of other activities undertaken by Greenpeace...

Don't flush our climate down the John “We will not gain anything today or in the months ahead if we become lost in hand-wringing and crystal-ball gazing about how bad things are or could be… What we do know is that we are in...

Crowd Scene It’s being called the biggest U.S. protest on climate change — hundreds of activists have gathered around the tiny coal-fired power plant in Washington that heats and cools the halls of power. The 99-year old facility that...

Stop Coal! More than 2,500 former coal miners, ministers, mothers, students, and climate activists, representing over 40 states from Arizona to Appalachia, successfully blocked all five entrances to the US Capitol's Power Plant for...

Now with a new and improved label! New Reality ad directed by the Academy-award winning Coen Brothers. In reality, there's no such thing as clean coal. Learn more. Join the campaign .

MIY Badge The crafty folk over at World Sweet World recently asked "can brownie badges save the climate?" ... and their readers voted yes and selected the Op-shopper Extraordinaire , the Quick & Social Showerer, the Obsessive...

The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental...

In this video the economist Nicholas Stern discusses the 'economic downturn' and its effect on the climate change agenda. The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the...

More than 300 activists from 20 different countries are in Brussels this morning to take action and demand a financial commitment to tackling climate change. The activists have surrounded the building in Brussels where finance...

An important gathering of about 2,000 climate scientists has just wrapped up in Copenhagen. They’ve been meeting this week to talk through latest science, in order to have some concrete recommendations to give negotiators at the final...

...which makes the rationale for National’s just- announced road building bonanza ridiculous. National argues that building roads is better for the environment because if you build a new road/expand an existing road there will be less...

Google have just announced an interesting new initiative - Google.org is soon to roll out free software which allows people to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency in a bid to help mitigate global warming. ...

"We’re all in this together – I don’t believe there’s a left or right, or here or there… The human species is the only animal that we know that destroys – with conscience – their environment and we need to change that." - Daniel Beltra...

... or in NZ's case -- reason to hang our heads in shame! The Energy [R]evolution is Greenpeace's international plan to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Susan Sarandon narrates the first of three 'Reasons to...

It’s spring in the city of Bonn, Germany, where 2,600 people from 180 countries are meeting to negotiate and debate the next phase of international action to tackle climate change. Our very own political advisor Geoff Keey is there to...

Photo © Greenpeace/Stachowske Day three of the climate negotiations in Bonn, and New Zealand fails to impress.... here's the latest from Greenpeace Political Adviser Geoff Keey, who's at the talks: New Zealand’s contribution to the...

in which Greenpeace Political Adviser Geoff Keey reports in from the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany... New Zealand has won third prize in Fossil of the Day awards at the climate talks. What’s that you ask? Well, there’s a...

Saturday was agriculture’s day in the sun at the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn, with delegates discussing options for reducing the sector’s growing greenhouse gas. New Zealand made a presentation during the day and then in the...

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The latest from Greenpeace Political Adviser Geoff Keey in Bonn - It’s 11pm. I’m sitting outside a small meeting room at the UN climate talks in Bonn with five of my Greenpeace colleagues. We’re waiting for people inside to come...

In which Geoff nears the end of his tether ... The negotiations are winding down as countries prepare to deliver closing speeches and I feel the need to sound off about how New Zealand is performing. New Zealand has a very talented...

Wilkins Ice Shelf Canaries were a coal miner’s best friend even well into the 20th Century. As long as the canary in the coal mine kept singing, the miners knew their air supply was safe – however a dead canary signalled an immediate...

Here's a on the sport report from Richard Page, defending Antarctica this week from Baltimore USA! There are as many facets to the work of a Greenpeace campaigner as an iceberg; and like an iceberg, much of the work is unseen. This...