A while ago I had a bit of a rant called "Do energy companies think we're stupid?" Well here's the sequel, in all it's post-Christmas glory. Shell's new (?) corporate song, set to "We are the world..." has been emailed with much sniggering across the... Read more >

On Christmas Day the UK newspaper "The Independent" reported that an entire island is now submerged thanks to global warming. Read more >

"Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obli...

It's that "this year in review" time again. If you're a regular of this blog or this one, then you should enjoy this 3 minute recap video of Greenpeace's 2006 global ocean voyage: Defending Our Oceans.

If you're having one of those "I don't remember th... Read more >

From the amount of money and effort the Government of Japan spends on trying to expand their whaling industry and resume commercial whaling you'd think there was an incredibly high demand for whale meat in Japan wouldn't you? However from this graph, ... Read more >

Greenpeace UK holds a funeral for the last Cod.

Europe's Fisheries Ministers are in denial about the Cod's impending death, and are likely to continue setting unrealistic quotas that mean the world's once most important food fish won't have a snowb... Read more >

Ok, here's a weird whale story for you all, with a season whiff about it, from the New York Times: Read more >

"In this season of strange presents from relatives, Dorothy Ferreira got a doozy the other day from her 82-year-old sister in Waterloo, Iowa. It was ugly...

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I just got an this Christmas card via email from Finnish environmental cartoonist Seppo Leinonen writes: "The climate is changing. If it would be a normal winter, we had been skiing for about a month by now".

No snow in Finland? Who'd have ... Read more >

Syngenta Board of Directors

Greenpeace Switzerland is part of a coalition seeking 50,000 guilty verdicts indicting Syngenta for it's super-herbacide, Paraquat. According to Stop-Paraquat.net:

Paraquat is considered the most poisonous herbicide widely in... Read more >

Activists in Italy are occupying the chimney and roof of an Italian power plant situated in a World Heritage site which is being converted to coal. It's part of several backwards steps the Italian energy company, ENEL, is planning which will put mo... Read more >

On Saturday, together with volunteers, I visited the 2 Apple stores in Amsterdam to spread the Green Apple message to Dutch Mac fans.

Early on Saturday morning the Dutch Greenpeace office was busy with volunteers stickering 800 green organic apples wit... Read more >

On the back of Brian's blogging about the "mugshot" Greenpeace ad campaign, here's an amazing Amnest International poster campaign from Switzerland. Each of the posters read "It's not happening here, but it's happening now" - but I'll shut up now, and... Read more >

From the BBC "Day in Pictures" series, this great AFP capture of the arrest of an activist in Indonesia. The caption at the BBC doesn't mention the subject of the action (forest policy), and the strength of the photo is beyond that specific. This has... Read more >

Good to see that the pressure is mounting on Iceland:

American supermarket chain Whole Foods Market (WFM) has decided to stop marketing Icelandic products because of Iceland resuming commercial whaling.

Minister of Fisheries Einar K. Gudfinnsson told Fr... Read more >

This has got to be the coolest YouTube video I've seen in a while!

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