Here's one from the Bizarre Quotes Department. It's from an article entitled "St Kitts-Nevis supports development of whaling industry," and quotes that Caribbean country's Fisheries Minister, Cedric Liburd, as listing the following reason for wanting... Read more >

Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 7 PM CT (Unfortunately that's 01:00am on Friday GMT, 02:00am Friday CET, or a far more pleasant Friday 12:00pm in Sydney)

Live Webcast

The History and Future of Whales

by Dr. Stephen R. Palumbi

Professor of Biological Science... Read more >

This piece of plastic was pulled out of the Pacific by the crew of the Esperanza

© Greenpeace / Alex Hofford

Back in August we talked about The Trash Vortex in the Pacific Ocean, where marine debris collects. Now it's back in the news again - our ... Read more >

Here's a video from Greenpeace Brazil - with English subtitles - about the effects of climate change in Brazil

Report (in English) »

Report (in Portugeuse) »

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Elaine Hill, our resident graphic designer, photographed this stop motion video. She wrote: "I was on holiday in Hawaii and went to welcome the Greenpeace ship Esperanza into port. She was taking a while so I thought I'd take a series of pictures to k... Read more >

© Greenpeace/Andrea Guermani

"Stop flushing ancient forests down the toilet" - that's what that banner says, hanging from the rooftop of the European headquarters of the world's largest paper tissue manufacturer, Kimberly-Clark. Also - note the nifty t... Read more >

Latest news - it looks like Edinburgh is set to follow the UK town of Woking, and long with Denmark and the Netherlands in implementing decentralised energy, as well as dramatically its carbon emissions. You can read more about this on the Greenpeace ... Read more >

First - the wolphin, or wholphin. Truth be told, when I saw this image on MSNBC, I thought "photoshop job" - not only is it kind of a tacky looking photograph, but the image itself look weird - possibly from being overcompressed. Still, it does seem t... Read more >

Here is a great editorial by, Averill Baker, who describes herself as a "live and die" Newfoundlander. It's clear she is genuinely (and rightly) flabbergasted by her government's position on bottom trawling. It starts off: Read more >

Not one fisherman alive, or...

© Greenpeace/Vaclav Vasku

From the global day (or was it week?) of action on climate change - activists block the entrance of the Czech Ministry of Environment with a wooden barrier carrying the messages

'canceled for inactivity' ,

'(ministry) protects ... Read more >

Copyright Greenpeace/Alex Hofford

Above, 24 October 2006; Dawn breaks over the Pacific Ocean, seen from Korean longliner, Shin Yung 51. Crew from the Esperanza spent the night aboard and witnessed the longliner in action.

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The climate meetings currently underway in Nairobi are called COP/MOP, which might suggest to the casual reader something other than a UN acronym. Perhaps we could suggest this:

According to the UNFCCC website:

"In UN language, the United N... Read more >

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1st November 2006 on the Gaumukh Glacier, Himalayas, India - activists stand in front of the Gaumukh glacier, source of the river Ganges. Their backpacks bear a message: "Climate change is killing Ganga".

Recent investigations of the Gango... Read more >

As many as 73 million sharks are killed for their fins each year, according to new research. But the actual figure is probably much higher because among other exceptions the study doesn't include sharks killed for meat, taken as accidental by-catch,... Read more >