All articles by Nick Young
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Global heatwaves are industry-driven climate chaos
Unprecedented danger will be the new normal if we don’t take urgent action to stop industry-driven climate change. But we can take lessons from the global action and local empathy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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VIDEO: The Lonely Shark, with music by Thom Yorke
A short animated film about two sharks with a sad ending.
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One hundred thousand people call for a ban on single-use plastic bottles
Accompanied by a giant albatross sculpture made of reclaimed plastic bottles, Greenpeace has delivered a 100,000-strong petition to parliament calling on the Government to ban single-use plastic bottles and incentivise…
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Forest Bill fails to stop import of products from deforestation or human rights abuses
Proposed new wood products legislation does not address critical issues of deforestation and human rights abuses associated with products imported into Aotearoa.
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Call for investigation into disappearance in the Amazon
Alarm bells are going off as the days pass since the disappearance of Brazilian Indigenista Bruno Araújo Pereira and Guardian journalist Dom Phillips in the Brazilian Amazon. The pair disappeared…
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2022: A massive chance to protect our oceans…
We live on a blue planet. Our oceans support all life on Earth. They regulate our climate by absorbing heat and carbon. They feed billions of people, and provide livelihoods…
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Turtle Journey shows us why we urgently need to protect the oceans
Climate breakdown, plastic, oil drilling and overfishing have driven our oceans to a breaking point, but it’s a story that doesn’t get told often enough.
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How Bitcoin is fueling the climate crisis and a software change that could clean it up
Bitcoin uses an outdated technology called proof-of-work to validate transactions. This proof-of-work method, at least as it currently operates, uses massive amounts of energy, and is a huge source of climate pollution.
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Spills, explosions and looming disasters: the last thing the world needs is more oil
This year didn’t start well. In January, off the coast of Thailand, thousands of litres of oil leaked into the sea from an underwater pipeline courtesy of Chevron’s subsidiary. The resulting spill blackened waters and beaches, killing local wildlife and threatening the livelihoods of communities reliant on the sea.
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Call received to freeze Russian oligarch assets in Aotearoa
Alongside the veteran protest yacht Vega today in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, Greenpeace Aotearoa Programme Director Niamh O’Flynn presented a petition to Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control, Phil Twyford, calling…