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UN report: human progress may be reversed by climate change

Blog entry by Susan Cavanagh | March 18, 2013

When it comes to political action on climate change, it’s the richest nations in the North that demand developing nations also act, which seems fair at first glance. But it’s the rich nations of the North that reaped the benefits of...

Meet the judges and see the winning design

Feature story | March 15, 2013 at 20:00

We're excited to announce the winner of our youth flag design competition, run in collaboration with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The winning flag design will be planted on the seabed at the North Pole next month!

24 million treehuggers and counting

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | March 13, 2013

Our 2012 numbers are in, and we're proud to say that 24 million people now subscribe to Greenpeace information or action alerts around the world. That's 24 million people who don't accept that cataclysmic climate change is acceptable,...

Getting used to the ‘new normal’

Blog entry by Cindy Baxter, Coal Action Network | March 12, 2013

As I flew up the country from Wellington to Auckland this week, on yet another beautiful day, I was struck by the colour of our country. Brown. Burned to a crisp.  The occasional smattering of green forest, but an island suffering...

Hope from Fukushima

Blog entry by Junichi Sato, Executive Director, Greenpeace Japan | March 11, 2013

As we mark the second memorial of the March 11, 2011 triple disaster, we see tragedy, but also hope in Japan. While people mourn for the mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents and children that were lost in the earthquake and...

Greenpeace takes on the world's biggest carmaker… and wins!

Blog entry by Sara Ayech | March 7, 2013

The force is with you and together you made Volkswagen (VW) do a handbrake turn on improving the efficiency of its cars. Something they said they could not do until you cried BS to make VW turn away from the Dark Side! ...

Salesforce the latest company to commit to clean energy

Blog entry by D Pomerantz | March 6, 2013

The effort to build a world powered by clean energy needs champions in every arena of our economy: activists on the streets, politicians in government, engineers in labs, and corporate leaders in boardrooms. Today, we’re happy to...

The floating factories finishing off our fish

Blog entry by Willie | March 5, 2013

Monster fishing boat Margiris (renamed Abel Tasman) was brought to Australia last year with the help of Kiwi investment . This is just the latest in a long series of fishing grounds that this vessel and the rest of the Dutch Pelagic...

Shell’s Arctic failure is Obama’s chance to act

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | March 4, 2013

Blog also published in Huffington Post on February 28th. An unexpected thing happened last night: one of the biggest oil companies in the world — Shell — made a big decision acknowledging that the oil industry cannot operate...

Shell abandons 2013 Arctic drilling: Timeline of Greenpeace’s Shell campaign

Blog entry by C Sharp | February 28, 2013

For those of you who missed any of the drama from Shell’s season in the Arctic, the finale revealed-SPOILER ALERT-that 2013 Arctic drilling is a no go. While Greenpeace welcomes this news with a “hip hip hooray”, it’s not a huge...

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