Dedicated to tackling the continent's urgent environmental problems, Greenpeace Africa is opening three new offices on the continent.

You don't have to join us to join us! This fragile Earth needs action. It needs you. Music by Hecq. Additional images from NASA and ESA/Hubble.

Greenpeace launches its new office in the Democratic Republic of Congo - the second on the African continent - which will focus on the protection of the Congo Basin rainforest.

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Melita Steele, one of Greenpeace Africa's climate campaigners, answers a few questions on South Africa's position on climate change.

A Greenpeace ad to make people think about the car they drive and the impact it has on the environment.

A video that targets Dove for its use of palm oil, an ingredient in its soaps that is driving deforestation and de-habitation in Indonesia.

In this video Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International, explains why Genetically modified (GM) food is not the miracle answer to world hunger.

Genetic engineering is a threat to food security, especially in a changing climate. This video explains how.

A Greenpeace truck (disguised as a beer lorry) blocks a cross-road to be used for the transportation of nuclear waste.

To highlight the concept of rising sea levels which are linked to climate change, Greenpeace created a flying fish exhibition.

This rare interview with the writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was screened in late November 1995 on Channel 4. Saro-Wiwa led the Ogoni people of Nigeria in their non-violent struggle to stop the multinational oil companies, like Shell,...

For it's role in the near-extinction of the Sumatran tiger, Asia Pulp and Paper receives the Golden Chainsaw award. No applause, please.

The EU is one of the world's largest markets for timber. In 2009 it was estimated that about 19 percent of EU wood imports come from illegal logging. So this video was released as part of the Forest Love campaign in the EU. The aim of the...

Watch as Sim McKenna - climber and Greenpeace activist - prepares to occupy the Stena Don oil rig as it drills in the deep waters of the Arctic. You'll also hear how his time in the Gulf of Mexico, following BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, has...

ScamWow! -- Because you can't clean up an oil spill, but you CAN clean up your image. Parody Ad from Greenpeace USA.

About 100 Greenpeace volunteers get together to make a human banner. The message? Climate SOS.

As part of a campaign to raise awareness about climate change in Africa, climate refugee 'animals' visited the Departments of Home Affairs and Housing. They carried boards with messages such as "My water hole has dried up. Need new home" and...

An interview from Euronews with Kumi Naidoo, the head of Greenpeace. In it he calls on governments to 'stop gambling with kids' futures'.

In Cancun, Greenpeace and 350.org partnered to film activists amongst underwater statues, bringing attention to the plight of coastal communities that will be affected by sea level rise.

Everything we accomplished, and every action we took in 2010 was thanks to you, and millions of Greenpeace supporters around the world. Join us in looking back on a year of action, with 99 of the best images in less than two minutes.

Martti worked for oil refinery company Neste Oil, recently voted the most irresponsible company of the year, until he decided to jump ship and join Greenpeace. He is now sailing on board the Rainbow Warrior.

Thanks to your generous support, the Rainbow Warrior 3 should be completed in October this year. Watch the video for an update on the construction process.

On Greenpeace's 40th anniversary, Kumi Naidoo and Rex Weyler take a look back at the start of the environmental organisation.

Greenpeace Global Director, Kumi Naidoo, speaks on the incredible imapact that Professor Wangari Maathai has had on the environmental, social justice, and gender movements.

Climbers from Greenpeace UK unfurl a banner reading "It's No Oil Painting" off the roof of central London's National Gallery where Shell, who is getting ready to drill in, and jeopardize the fragile Arctic environment, was holding a PR event.

If we want healthy, living oceans tomorrow, we urgently need to protect the world’s oceans today -- and the unregulated plunder of the Indian Ocean demands our urgent attention.