Turning 65 is often considered a milestone in one’s life, a time for reflection. Today Prime Minister John Howard had plenty of opportunity to reflect on his longstanding and increasingly controversial refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, he was joined on his morning walk by about 20 Greenpeace activists with a strong message: "Don't walk away from Kyoto."
On the 6th of August 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The death, suffering and destruction which followed were unprecedented in the history of war.
After six years of Greenpeace campaigning against the controversial Stuart Shale Oil project in Gladstone, the project's owner Queensland Energy Resources (QER) has announced it will close stage one of the project.
The Rainbow Warrior has begun a new, 10-week Pacific fisheries tour, named Our Oceans, Our Future, Our Choice. The tour kicked off on July 10 as the Rainbow Warrior lay anchored in the port of Suva, Fiji Islands. The goal is to work with Pacific island communities to build protection for their fisheries.
With the Athens Olympic Games just around the corner, Greenpeace welcomes news that a "cool coalition" has stuck to promises made during the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
