It was a wild and beautiful ride on Taitu's maiden voyage from Wellington to Napier as our intrepid crew head North to confront Statoil and Chevron's reckless oil exploration.

We are the generation that ends oil. Get on board - because when we stand together, we always win. http://greenpeace.nz/get-on-board

Today around 200 people blockaded the oil industry conference in New Plymouth, Taranaki preventing delegates from entering the venue for almost six hours.

two Greenpeace boats intercepted the seismic blasting ship that's exploring for oil 50NM east of Wairarapa. They delivered this cease and desist message from over 60,000 New Zealanders: http://greenpeace.nz/cease-and-desist

This is happening RIGHT NOW in the waters between Napier and Kaikoura on behalf of Statoil and Chevron. Take Action Here: http://greenpeace.nz/stop-deep-sea-oil

How big is your rig? Here the Clumpers talking about their solar rig and dispel some of Unison's myths about the the Solar Tax. If you think a tax on solar is a bad idea, sign the petition here: http://grnpc.org/say-nah-to-the-solar..

We went to the Hawke's Bay to talk to people about solar power. Here's what people there think of Unison's Solar Tax. If you think a tax on solar is a bad idea, sign the petition here: http://grnpc.org/say-nah-to-the-solar... Find out...

Get Free of Deep Sea Oil featuring Major Lazer, kiwis with banners and the Oil Free Seas flotilla!

REVEALED: The shocking tale of Simon Bridges' illicit tryst with a Dutch giant, a burned bum and some sticky chocolate. Contains adult themes and offensive inferences. (Satire warning).

On September 18, Greenpeace activists scaled a Gazprom oil rig in the Russian Arctic. The armed response they encountered was ruthless. This is the kind of protection the Russian oil industry gets from authorities, but the real threat to the...

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The Right To Protest TVC

On the bridge of the Rainbow Warrior, we made a pledge to resist, with every peaceful means available to us, the threat of deep sea oil. And we called Anadarko in Texas to tell them exactly that.

In January 2013 we sailed the Rainbow Warrior to the subantarctic islands to highlight some of the most precious places and species that New Zealand would put at risk if deep sea oil drilling is allowed to proceed.

With people like you we have achieved a great deal.

The crew of the Greenpeace ship MY Arctic Sunrise construct a 'heart, with the flags of the 193 country members of the United Nations on an ice floe north of the Arctic Circle.

At 4am local time in Russia, six Greenpeace activists, including Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, set off in three inflatable speedboats from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and scaled Gazprom's 'Prirazlomnaya' Arctic oil platform in the Arctic...

At 4am local time in Russia, six Greenpeace activists, including Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, set off in three inflatable speedboats from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and scaled Gazprom's 'Prirazlomnaya' Arctic oil platform in the Arctic...

Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo, thanks all of those who support the organisation and the Save the Arctic campaign.

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...

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.

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 .

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.