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History and Successes

Background | 14 September, 2009 at 14:35

"A trip for life, and for peace": that’s how Irving Stowe, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, described the plan to sail a boat to the Arctic Ocean to stop the testing of a nuclear bomb. Irving didn’t know it then, but the Greenpeace trip...

Esperanza sails into "world's aquarium"

Feature story | 17 November, 2006 at 1:00

The Gulf of California in Mexico was named the “World’s Aquarium” by Jacques Cousteau because of its rich marine life. A year after we began living the life aquatic on the Defending our Oceans expedition, the Esperanza is sailing into Mexico to ...

Forty-five years of people power

Blog entry by Jennifer Morgan and Bunny McDiarmid | 15 September, 2016

After forty-five years, countless campaigns and stories - one thing remains central to the Greenpeace identity, and that is people. People are at the heart of who we are and what is needed to create the green and peaceful world we need...

72 years after Hiroshima, where is Japan’s commitment to end nuclear weapons?

Blog entry by Yuko Yoneda | 4 August, 2017

Even with the passing of the UN’s Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty, Japan still remains an outlier, betraying the hopes of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki . It started with just 12 of them. With a bold mission, this...

We’ve had enough of eating and breathing Chernobyl

Blog entry by Rashid Alimov | 7 April, 2016 4 comments

I’m in the Bryansk region of Russia. Despite being over 180 kilometres from Chernobyl and thirty years after the disaster, my geiger counter still picks up elevated levels of radiation.   This invisible radiation hazard is a...

15 things you didn't know about Chernobyl

Blog entry by Celine Mergan | 9 April, 2016 5 comments

In the early morning of April 26th, 1986, reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear station exploded. It caused what the United Nations has called "the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of humanity." Chernobyl was the...

Remembering the Warrior

Blog entry by Bunny McDiarmid | 10 July, 2012 9 comments

Today is the 27th anniversary of the 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret service agents here in Auckland harbour. That is a long time ago now, but every year at this time I am reminded in crystal clear detail of...

Taking Back the Earth: 30 years of Greenpeace action.

Generic multimedia item | 1 July, 2001 at 3:00

A video history of Greenpeace in two and a half minutes. Thanks to VESTA, and thanks to the European Space Agency-ESA-for the provision of archive material.

Greenpeace through the lens: Photographer Pierre Gleizes

Video | 8 February, 2011 at 16:00

French photographer Pierre Gleizes has shot some of the Greenpeace's best known photographs over the three decades. Some of these pictures have truly changed the way we look at our planet and the environment.

Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak commemorate

Image | 3 December, 2002 at 1:00

Survivors of the Bhopal gas leak commemorate the 18th anniversary of the disaster by burning effigies of the Chief Minister of Madyha Pradesh, India's Prime Minister and former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson outside the abandoned Union Carbide...

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