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Greenpeace applauds Green Party vision for thriving oceans
Greenpeace is applauding the Greens marine policy, released today, saying it sets a strong vision for healthy and thriving oceans.
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National Party would throw fuel on the fire as the world burns
Greenpeace is calling the National Party’s newly announced energy policy blatant climate denial and an affront to all the people and communities already suffering the impacts of climate change.
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Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires
What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.
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Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted?
On June 20 2020, the mercury reached 38°C in Verkhoyansk, Siberia – the hottest it’s ever been in the Arctic in recorded history. With the heatwaves came fire, and by the start of August around 600 individual fires were being detected every day. By early September, parts of the Siberian Arctic had been burning since…
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The Greenpeace Lockdown activism Zoom sessions
- UPDATED - Thinking back to the beginning of March this year, I don’t think any of us could have imagined that we would be living in the midst of a global pandemic…
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Our Entangled World
We have squandered the real wealth of our soils by depleting and destroying these fragile networks. Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life is a good reminder of the path we need to follow to restore our wounded ecosystems.
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With the advance of COVID-19, Indigenous People shelter inside the Forest
The original version of this story was published in Portuguese on July 15 by Greenpeace Brazil.
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Oil is leaking all over the world
We are in the midst of a climate emergency – melting ice caps, dying coral reefs, wildfires, more and more extreme weather events – yet companies continue to drill for oil. These recent incidents, among several others this year, are just another reminder about the dangers of fossil fuels and why it is more urgent…
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Amazon, Bolsonaro, Cattle: the ABC’s of Destruction
In spite of a declared fire ban and the presence of the army, the number of fire hotspots recorded in August are likely to be even higher than last year. Fires in the Amazon rainforest are not natural. They are deliberately set by land-grabbers and ranchers to expand the land used for cattle grazing and…
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Greenpeace celebrates Green Party commitment to phase out PKE
Greenpeace is labelling the commitment to end the use of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) “bold and transformational”. The commitment has just been announced as part of the Green Party Agriculture policy
