Today is the day we have been all been waiting for, and we have some exciting news to share with you. When we planned this expedition, our ambition was big already — to ski to the North Pole to lower a special pod and a flag for the future to the seabed below. 

But sometimes the stars align and things happen that you never could have expected.

Last week we discovered that representatives of the Arctic Council would be meeting at the North Pole for the first time ever. I wrote a letter to the chairperson of the council to ask whether he would consider meeting us at the exact place that we're working to protect. Then he called me on Friday and said he would try to make it happen — which is fantastic news for me and the three other young people with me.

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One of the arguments currently popular with climate change contrarians and science deniers is that climate change has paused, or, in less moderate language, global warming stopped in 1997. Either phrasing is wrong, but there’s wrong, and then there’s climate denier wrong, and we didn’t realise quite how spectacularly wrong this was until this week. Read more >

Firstly, be wary of statements made about the climate using short data-sets. Thirty years is accepted in the field as the standard period over which a climatic change can be observed. Changes over shorter periods may be confirmed as climatic change as more data comes in, but trying to work out what’s going on from a data set covering less than thirty years means you might be mistaking weather for climate. Often, the signal is strong enough for...

Last June, as we launched our campaign to save the Arctic, we made a promise. We promised that if a million joined our movement, we would take their names to the North Pole and plant them on the seabed 4km beneath the ice as statement of our joint commitment to Arctic protection.

Well you smashed that target in less than a month. And in the nine months that have passed since, our movement has tripled.

In a few short days, a group of brave adventurers will set off on a gruelling trek across the Arctic Ocean to fulfil this promise as part of a global movement now almost three million strong.

Meet the incredible team and learn all about their mission in this video – made with Oscar-nominated LA production company, Arctic defenders and all round heroes Dirty Robber

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I really am delighted to support the Save the Arctic campaign. I am incredibly proud of the design that we came up with — and we launched a new T-shirt as part of the collection at Paris fashion week. We superimposed the image on a polka-dotted T-shirt and also used the design in the invitation for the show.

For me the Climate Revolution is about naming something that is already happening. Man-made climate change is accepted as a fact by most people and through every walk of life people are changing their behaviour. Hope lies with the people all around the world who are prepared to stand up and be counted. That is why it is so important to me to use fashion as a way to send a message; we have to put the planet first. In the long term what is good for the planet is good for the economy, b... Read more >

It seems that Sealord thinks we all came down in the last shower and are prepared to believe whatever line they spin in defence of unsustainable canned tuna.

A few weeks ago, Sealord started pushing canned yellowfin tuna with a TV ad claiming it was their best tasting tuna. When questioned by TV3 about why they were promoting a species that has all but disappeared from NZ waters, Sealord limply replied that it was “trying to reduce the amount of yellowfin it sells”. TV fishing show host Matt Watson didn’t buy that line, and neither do we at Greenpeace.

The boss at Sealord really needs to have a word with the PR department about why they are advertising canned yellowfin tuna. Conventional wisdom would suggest that you advertise something in order to sell more - not less.

We don’t think they’r... Read more >

Last Friday early in the morning our good friend and colleague Daren Day passed away.

Daren had been fighting lung cancer for the past three years and up until his last breath he did not give up the fight.  As Dylan Thomas wrote: 'do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage to the dying of the light", and that was Daren, not willing to miss a moment of living whilst he still had a breath in him, he fought to the very end.

Daren has been in and around Greenpeace for as long as any of us can remember. Many now know him as one of the Greenpeace New Zealand board members where  he served for a number of years including as chair, a position he gave up only two years ago.

But I remember first meeting him in 1985 when the  Warrior first came to NZ. After she was bombed we relied heavil... Read more >

In just over two weeks I will be standing on the frozen Arctic ocean, preparing to ski to the North Pole. I'll be wearing four layers of fleece and a special hat that someone knitted for me. In my pockets I'll carry some almond chocolate, an iPod, and a declaration of hope for future generations.

Like most of the 16-person team, I have absolutely zero Arctic experience. None. Zilch. In fact, my outdoors experience is mostly limited to camping in the garden with my friend Barnaby when I was 7. So why on earth is Greenpeace helping me and a bunch of inexperienced kids ski to the top of the world? Well, here's the short story.

We're going to the North Pole to declare it protected on behalf of all life on earth. Once we arrive, we'll make a hole in the ice and plant a flag for the future on... Read more >

ID: GP02HWGAirship Canned Tuna Banner ActionThe Greenpeace airship A.E. Bates flies  by the La Jolla peninsula near the headquarters of Chicken of the Sea canned tuna company to call attention to overfishing and bycatch issues.

We’ve seen things go from bad to worse in the conventional canned tuna industry over the last year. In 2011, with the launch of Greenpeace’s campaign to reform Chicken of the Sea, information on the sector’s destructive practices came to the forefront. Images of sharks, rays, and even cetaceans being callously slaughtered on tuna boats peppered the internet and ran rampant across social media. A tuna boat helipilot-turned-whistleblower, his voice distorted and face blacked out to ensure his anonymity, told the world about the horrors that were being committed in... Read more >