This video is a little long, but it is an amazing view of the dangers faced by activists working in places like this.

From the Guardian's website: Read more >

Paulo Adário, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Amazonia campaign, who led the mission subsequently complain...

As the narrator of this startling video states, "working in the Amazon forest is not for the faint of heart." In the past, people from campaigning organisations have been bullied by land owners and workers, facing intimidation, violence, death threats... Read more >

Kieran Mulvaney, sailing aboard the Esperanza, wrote the following for Undercurrents, the crew blog for our Bering Sea voyage.

Thirty-five years, eleven months, and eighteen days later, we finally made it.

On September 15, 1971, a crew of twelve set out... Read more >

From the Independent last week: Read more >

An eight-month investigation by Greenpeace into the land scam, revealed that the Brazilian land reform agency, INCRA, had set up large settlements in rainforest areas instead of placing them in already deforested areas, ...

It's getting a little silly and a lot hotter in the Arctic these days. Did you hear about the Russian flag planting thing? And how some of the footage that was shown on certain TV stations turned out to be from the movie Titanic? That story inspire... Read more >

British cluster balloon pilot Mike Howard flies over Germany's second largest emitter of CO2, a Vattenfall coal plant, powered by 600 black and white balloons.

Greenpeace's blueprint for an energy [R]evolution calls for urgent reductions in coal's ... Read more >

Result! One country down, two to go. Norway and Japan are the only two countries left flying in the face of world opinion, after Iceland's fisheries minister, Einar K. Guofinnsson was quoted by Reuters as saying

"The whaling industry, like any other in... Read more >

Global activism group Avaaz is looking for help in pushing the World Trade Organisation to stop the plunder of our oceans. As a recent mailing puts it:

Often, the issues that affect the most lives don't make the headlines. This month, we have an opport... Read more >

Despite the best efforts of the British Airports Authority to injunct it out of existence, the Camp for Climate Action was held in a field just a short hop from the perimeter fence of Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow. A week of workshops, seminars a... Read more >

Parental warning: Video contains nudity. (But not exactly anything that I'd call shocking.)

Greenpeace Switzerland and artist Spencer Tunick teamed up for this, ahem, unusual project. Really well done. Big thanks to all the volunteers who bared all ... Read more >

In the last version of our Guide to Greener Electronics, Sony came bottom of the pack, mainly due to bad recycling policies and double standards on product take back in the US. Yesterday Sony announced a new US recycling scheme. Shame it's not worldw... Read more >

If you've ever eaten the Chinese delicacy, shark fin soup, you've had a taste of ocean destruction.

Sharks are greatly valued for their fins which are sold for high prices in Asia. Shark fin soup is served at Chinese weddings and banquets to symbolise ... Read more >

I've been seeing some misleading buzz in the blogoworld today, in part I think thanks to shoddy reporting by FOX.

First the bad news, global warming is still a reality we have to deal with. As you can see from the graph above (with the adjusted figur... Read more >

This made me very angry this morning – a leaked UK government memo on renewable energy in the Guardian reveals how officials are already preparing excuses, spin and plotting because they fully expect the UK to miss the 20% renewables by 2020 European ... Read more >

Regular readers of this blog are no doubt familiar with how companies like Exxon, working with the Bush administration create a false sense of debate about global warming.

But at long last, there are signs the US mainstream media is finally catching on... Read more >