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From Rongelap to Mejatto – Rainbow Warrior helped move nuclear refugees
Forty years ago, the Rainbow Warrior helped Rongelap islanders, long suffering from post-war US nuclear test radiation, move 250km to Mejatto Island, one of the islands currently being visited as…
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New deep sea mining study shows ecosystem recovery from mining could take centuries
A new study shows that the damage from deep sea mining would be so severe that any recovery from mining could take hundreds of years.
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Seamount Expedition Day 16: Cheers and high fives
After an overnight steam to another seamount on Challenger, we’re sending down the camera again. After yesterday, I’m definitely apprehensive that we’re just going to see more of the same destruction, but there's a surprise in store.
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Luxon’s mining obsession drives away second offshore wind investor
Greenpeace is calling on the Government to restore confidence to offshore wind investors by cancelling the fast track process for seabed mining, after it was revealed today that another offshore…
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Seamount Expedition Day 9-10: It’s all about the weather
Day 9 brings the best conditions we’ve had since we set off. We’re in the middle of the Tasman, not exactly known for its calm waters, but there’s barely a wave.
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Luxon’s investment claims undermined by breaches of free trade agreements
The Prime Minister's claims to the Infrastructure Investment Summit in Auckland today, that his Government is committed to a rules-based multilateral trading system, are undermined by his Government’s repeated breaches of the environment chapters of recent free trade agreements, says Greenpeace.
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Rainbow Warrior arrives in Marshall Islands to call for nuclear and climate justice on 40th anniversary of Rongelap evacuation
Greenpeace flagship vessel the Rainbow Warrior was welcomed back to the Marshall Islands today, marking the start of a six-week mission around the Pacific nation to elevate calls for nuclear…
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PODCAST: Buses are free for women in Delhi: What can the world learn from it?
Delhi, one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing cities, is proving that beyond movement, public transport is about justice, inclusion, and empowerment. To commemorate International Women’s Day, the SystemShift, a Greenpeace…
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More powerful than Hiroshima: How the largest nuclear weapons test ever built a nation of leaders in the Marshall Islands
71 years ago, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a nuclear bomb with the codename “Castle Bravo”, exploded with an energy of 15 megatons. The mushroom cloud reached 40…
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The New Zealand tourism conundrum: how the Luxon government simultaneously touts and destroys NZ nature
It is as alarming to the tourists who come here as it is to New Zealanders ourselves that our Government has launched an all-out war on nature.
