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Amundsen, Antarctica and the power of impossible ambitions
Blogpost by Frida Bengtsson - December 14, 2011 at 14:14

As I write this I'm looking out my window at the Fefor hotel in Norway at a wintery landscape of mountains, forest and an ice-covered lake; the same place where Amundsen, Nansen and Scott planned their historic expeditions to the poles. That I'm her... Read more >
Japan 'Determined' to Resume Commercial Whaling
Blogpost by Philip Radford, Executive Director, Greenpeace USA - December 13, 2011 at 13:51 7 comments

Gearing up to kill over 1,000 whales in internationally protected waters, Japan’s senior vice-minister announced that Japan is “determined to continue the [whaling] program until it leads to the resumption of commercial whaling.”

But we can help st... Read more >
Senator Murkowski continues dirty air affair with polluter lobbyists
Blogpost by Joe Smyth - December 13, 2011 at 10:10

Senator Murkowski announced yesterday she plans to introduce legislation to weaken upcoming safeguards that would protect Americans from mercury pollution and other dangerous emissions from coal fired power plants. Those mercury safeguards, which ... Read more >
Rena 'ghost birds' appear in Auckland
Blogpost by Steve Abel - December 12, 2011 at 12:56 3 comments

This morning 150 original ‘oil prints’ made with a little blue penguin killed by the Rena disaster appeared along Auckland’s Khyber Pass Road.

The prints are accompanied by the message ‘Rena did this. Deep sea oil drilling could be a thousand times... Read more >
Please don't squander this moment
Blogpost by Kumi Naidoo - December 9, 2011 at 13:40 3 comments

An open letter to the governments of the world meeting in Durban

Dear friends,

Welcome to our city.

We remember a time in Durban – indeed, a period in the history of this nation of South Africa – when we feared that the apartheid states' intransi... Read more >
Greenpeace and Palau bust pirates in Palau shark sanctuary
Blogpost by Greenpeace Australia - December 9, 2011 at 13:24

Wednesday, during our joint enforcement exercise with the Palauan authorities, we discovered a suspected illegal operation on board a long liner in Palau’s Exclusive Economic Zone

The Taiwanese vessel the Sheng Chi Hui was spotted... Read more >
Living with Fukushima City's radiation problem
Blogpost by Ike Teuling, Greenpeace Radiation Expert - December 9, 2011 at 13:15 2 comments

While walking through the highly contaminated outskirts of Fukushima City last week, I suddenly realized that this capital of the prefecture is as far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site as my hometown is from Borssele where the only Dut... Read more >
The future of nuke power: Greenpeace restarts the debate
Blogpost by Justin McKeating - December 9, 2011 at 12:57 1 comment

The debate on the future nuclear power is back on in earnest in France, and many other countries. That’s thanks to our activists paying surprise visits to two French nuclear power plants this week. The news that they could so easily get through... Read more >
US Climate Treaty Obstructionism Must Stop
Blogpost by Jay Ferrari - December 8, 2011 at 10:10 1 comment

Kumi Naidoo, executive director for Greenpeace International, pulls no punches explaining how the US team at the UN Climate talks in Durban is doing more harm than good.

The delegation charged with ensuring our nation's best interests continues to be... Read more >
A Look Inside the West Coast Warehouse Where Greenpeace Keeps its "Protest Props"
Blogpost by Jay Ferrari - December 7, 2011 at 18:41

What's hidden somewhere in a nondescript, industrial section of San Francisco? A dizzying variety of eye-catching vehicles, arresting accessories and stacks of stuff designed to facilitate creative communication.

LA Times reporter Maria L. La Ganga ... Read more >