Palm oil is the world’s cheapest edible oil and a key ingredient in some biofuels. Global demand is booming and agri-corporations are grabbing large swathes of land to expand palm oil production in a new frontier: Africa.

One of these corporations is... Read more >

Corporations look to plunder Earth’s polar resources

The World’s multinational corporations face an unrelenting problem. Resource extraction has met Earth’s limits. The great fortunes of history were made by plundering resources, but we have taken th... Read more >

Whale conservation has lost out to the fading, but still defiant pro-whaling forces, at this year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting.  

The meeting in Panama City had initially offered the world hope that the IWC would actually h... Read more >

Like a tap that’s been left running, ongoing oil spills on land in Russia have polluted rivers, the sea and countryside, imposing extreme hardship on the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Komi Republic.

Once an area where inhabitants could catc... Read more >

We’ve teamed up with Radiohead and actor Jude Law to make a fantastic video to Save the Arctic.

Take a minute to watch it yourself and then spread the message by sharing it with your friends and family.

Oil companies are using melting sea ... Read more >

The world has recently experienced a series of calamitous weather events. News headlines have painted a grim picture: flooding, drought, landslides and record ice melt in the arctic. These events stretch to every corner of the globe, but their effects... Read more >

On Saturday, June 30, we heard a sound we will never forget.

When the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise reached the edge of the Arctic sea ice, the sound of the ice scraping and scratching the hull of the ship was strong and it resounded intermittently ... Read more >

The weather here in Panama City changes from bright sun to pouring rain without warning. It may be an omen for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting which will start in a few days.

Every five years the IWC considers the issue of the so... Read more >

Before going back to the Arctic this summer I talked with a good friend of mine, who asked me: “Do you remember how they referred to age in old novels?”

“No,” I replied.

“Well, they’d say: ‘She’s 17 summers.’ And out of your 33 summers, this is the ... Read more >

The biggest coal user in Italy is trying to silence Greenpeace Italy for telling Italians the company’s coal plant emissions kill 366 people a year — about one person every day.

This kind of attack isn’t new. Big, rich companies often try to use the ... Read more >

This may be one of the nerdiest Greenpeace blogs you’ve ever read. I’m in Columbia, in a big conference center, where people talk all day long. Is this how we save the forest, you ask? Shouldn’t I be on a speed boat blocking timber shipments? The reas... Read more >

The iCloud just keeps on growing.

Apple announced yesterday that it will build its next data centre in Reno, NV in the United States. This latest facility joins Apple’s initial three data centres in California, North Carolina and Oregon; together tho... Read more >

The Rio+20 Summit has failed to create the future that people and planet desperately need. The battle for our Oceans, though, got an extra wind at Rio. I therefore did not leave Rio depressed, but with hope and determination that the High Seas can and... Read more >

It’s a little known fact that South Africa has some of the best quality water in the world – for those who have access to it, and can afford to pay for it. But the country is facing a looming water conflict, and coal is right in the middle of it. Read more >

Today is the biggest “Day of Action” we have ever done - with 2,000 volunteers taking part in 20 countries from Canada to Switzerland to Chile to Australia!

Starting today, volunteers on the streets of 200 cities will talk to tens (and maybe even hun... Read more >