Dirty Air: Raps on Hong Kong Government

Video | 2009-02-26

MC Yan challenges the Hong Kong government to come clean about the city's air quality. Greenpeace have been pushing the government to update the way it assesses and reports air quality. The government have been using the same air quality standard for 20 years and it's time to update that to meet air quality standards recommended by the World Health Organisation and reflect the cit's true air quality.

MC Yan and Greenpeace East Asia challenge the Hong Kong government to tell the truth about the city's air pollution.

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Calling for a Green Apple: San Francisco to Hong Kong

Video | 2012-05-17 at 14:13

Over 216,000 people have asked Apple to choose green power, not dirty coal. To bring that message to Apple we are visiting Apple stores across the globe in a 24hr virtual iPhone relay, using iPhone and iPads to show Apple its users want it to be...

Coal takes more than it gives

Video | 2012-03-28 at 12:38

Coal might be cheap, but it's a dirty form of energy that's causing a host of problems in China. In the short term, there's the air pollution that plagues the entire nation. In the long term, coal is contributing to devastating climate change...

Washed posters expose fashion industry's dirty secret

Video | 2012-03-22 at 11:25

To mark World Water Day, Greenpeace activists, volunteers and the general public paste and wash posters in cities around the world. The action was part of the ongoing " Detox " campaign calling on the fashion industry to eliminate hazardous...

3D street art highlights toxics in clothing

Video | 2012-03-22 at 11:00

Planet Street Painting artists were commissioned by Greenpeace to make a giant 3D painting on the sidewalk of the World Fashion Centre. The piece highlights how global fashion brands have turned us into unwitting polluters . We tested...

Delivering messages to Fukushima

Video | 2012-03-05 at 14:12

An international Greenpeace alpine team delivers messages of support and hope for the victims of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to the summit of Mt Fuji. Collected from thousands of people in Japan and all over the world, Greenpeace...

Shadowlands: Photographs and stories from Fukushima

Video | 2012-02-27 at 12:35

Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong visited the Fukushima region with Greenpeace in the autumn of 2011 to bear witness to the effects wrought on the region by the nuclear fallout from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant...

Happy Year of the Dragon

Video | 2012-01-19 at 15:43

All of us here at Greenpeace want to wish you a very happy and healthy Year of the Dragon. Thank You for all your support this year. We hope you enjoy this video and have a wonderful holiday.

Wind Turbine of Hope

Video | 2011-11-29 at 11:31

Marking the start of this year's UN climate negotiations, activists from environmental organisation Greenpeace raise a symbolic wind turbine on a Durban beach.

Beautiful Hainan Gibbons endangered due to deforestation

Video | 2011-11-25 at 16:52

Hainan's rainforests are home to the world's rarest primate, the Hainan gibbon, of which it is believed that only 23 remain in the wild. "When you have just 23 of a particular animal species left in the wild, that says we humans aren't being good...

Gloria Chang: "Sea ice melt is like our global air conditioner breaking down"

Video | 2011-10-19 at 13:20

Hong Kong campaigns manager Gloria Chang recently ended a one week trip on Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise which traversed Norway's Warbah Islands. The expedition included leading independent ice scientists from the University of Cambridge who were...

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