Around twenty years ago off the coast of Inish Mor a basking shark rose up out of the water and terrified an eight year old boy who had been taken fishing by his father. The vast shark with it's enormous mouth was almost the size of the fishing boat, ... Read more >

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Looks like that old nugget, Sellafield reprocessing plant, is back in the news again, this time for leak that was discovered in April 2005, eight months after it had started: Read more >

"About 83,000 litres of acid containing 20 tonnes of uranium and 160kg of plu...

I am so tired. Not because of the long day or the sort of late hour, but because the Icelandic fisheries ministry issued a permit to hunt 39 whales for commercial purposes. It is. Just. So. Frustrating. Why do they do this? You tell me, there is not ... Read more >

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Well, with all this talk of "climate porn", some of our activists in Amsterdam have gone one better - they've set up a "Green Light District" in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light District by replacing the red light bulbs with gre... Read more >

At 07:46 East Coast Time on the 17th October 2006 in the United States, a momentous event occurred. The 300 millionth American was born. Or as some people in the US have been pointing out, they most likely just walked across the border. The media not ... Read more >

This is tuna:

This is also tuna:

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The current webbie on the Esperanza, Richella, has been writing about tuna today. Funny this, as I'd been thinking about tuna myself the last few days (yes, I think about fish a little too much, ... Read more >

Here's the top photos from Greenpeace photographers during September. Some sobering stuff...

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19 September 2006 - Aerial view of the mud gushing out of a Lapindo Brantas Inc. gas exploration well in Sidoarjo, East Java. The situation is slipping b...

This one slipped by me, despite my having been at last year's Forest Rescue Station in Finland. Finland, you see, has managed to win the Golden Chainsaw Award, which we reserve for the worst forest crime offenders.

Between the the 1950s and 1970s, birc... Read more >

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This bit of feedback from one of my personal heroes, Kathy Sierra, made my day:

Greenpeace takes a novel, inspiring approach to a campaign to make Apple 'green'. Rather than attacking the company, it encourages Apple fans to get involved creatively as ... Read more >

Al Gore's film 'An Inconvenient Truth' opens in Holland today. You'd think that with the world approaching a literal melt down you wouldn't need a movie to get people's attention. But there's the rub - these days there are so many things to be worried... Read more >

There was a fairly stiff article in today's Independent (UK):

"Today is a bleak day for the environment, the day of the year when mankind over-exploits the world's resources - the day when we start living beyond our ecological means."

That's it, folks t... Read more >

Pete Willcox, first skipper of the Rainbow Warrior, wrote this homage to activist Bruce Abraham:

 

Bruce Abraham died yesterday. I do not know the details.

I met Bruce in 1983 in Seattle, when we were there getting ready for that summer in Al... Read more >

By Xiao Wei, vocalist and guitarist from Chinese band 'Catcher in the Rye'

I was born in Beijing, a big noisy city without forests and faraway from the oceans. I have a Rn'R band named "the Catcher in the Rye". Now we are volunteers of GREENPEACE. This... Read more >