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Quiz: Test your knowledge with our quick plastic quiz!
Test your knowledge with our quick plastic quiz! We’ve all seen the devastating images of pristine beaches covered with plastic waste, of turtles and other marine life killed by ingesting bags, bottles, and other debris. But how much do you know about the plastic problem?
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Lawyers challenge New Zealand’s proposed emissions budgets as inconsistent with the 1.5℃ goal
New Zealand’s Climate Change Commission is facing its first legal hurdle, as a group of 300 climate-concerned lawyers seek judicial review of the processes it used to calculate carbon budgets…
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Indigenous communities in danger of being erased from the map in Brazil
“We were already on this land before Brazil was Brazil,” —Eliseu Lopes, Indigenous leader
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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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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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Worsening nitrate contamination adds to Canterbury water woes
Greenpeace is redoubling calls for government action to cut synthetic nitrogen fertiliser following two days of drinking water testing in Canterbury, which confirmed that nitrate contamination in drinking water is…
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Ronald McDonald arrested at GE protest
Ronald McDonald arrested today after locking himself to the gates of McDonalds’ South Auckland distribution centre in Golden Arches Place, Wiri. Greenpeace Activist Gareth Hughes from Wellington, in full Ronald…
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Climate the winner as Marsden B scrapped
Greenpeace today heralded Mighty River Powers decision to scrap Marsden B, which would have been the first major coal fired power station built in New Zealand for over 30 years.
