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The ocean floor is too precious to mine
Imagine a blanket of darkness swallowing your surroundings, as sand and sediment rain from the sky. Imagine the trees being consumed, small plants and animals becoming dark with the world…
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Living through Sri Lanka’s biggest marine disaster
The apocalypse is here. These were the first thoughts that ran through my mind when news about the X-Press-Pearl began filtering in. Yellow shorelines were blackened with charred debris and hazardous cargo littered Sri Lanka’s coast. A few days later, waves and waves of tiny plastic pellets called ‘nurdles’ began washing up on western and…
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The roots of Greenpeace
This September 2021, Greenpeace will celebrate 50 years of environmental activism, dating from the launch of the first Greenpeace campaign to stop a nuclear bomb test in Alaska
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Greenpeace hands NZ Rugby a red card over oil industry sponsorship deal with All Blacks
Greenpeace is squaring up to tackle NZ Rugby over the sporting body’s reported intention to sign up INEOS, a petroleum giant and “merchant of plastic pollution”, as a sponsor for…
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Climate Commission final report more concerned about placating dairy industry than tackling climate crisis
Greenpeace says there is still a cow-shaped hole in both the Climate Change Commission’s advice and the Government’s approach to climate action, following the release of the Commission’s finalised climate…
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Tons of toxic microplastics are covering Sri Lanka’s western coastline
Tons of toxic microplastics used to make single-use plastic packaging are covering Sri Lanka’s western coastline.
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World Oceans Day: 8 photos celebrating the beauty of the sea
This World Oceans Day, celebrate our big blue backyard with eight of the best Greenpeace photos from out at sea.
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How I became an ecologist
How does an eager engineering student, in the era of expanding space exploration, become an ecologist, dedicated to the Earth? In my case: Rachel Carson, the Cuyahoga River, Gregory Bateson,…
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Seen Seaspiracy? Here’s 4 films about illegal fishing – one of the world’s most lucrative and dangerous industries
Under the cover of night, away from prying eyes, the activity takes place. It’s worth billions of dollars but the price that it comes with is tainted with reports of…
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Net Zero and Offsets won’t solve the climate crisis and here’s why
This is a historical moment in time – a crisis that requires governments to act together in an unprecedented way to ensure a future for all life on Earth. It…
