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The evacuation of Rongelap

Page | March 12, 2010 at 11:30

In 1985 the residents of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands asked Greenpeace to help them relocate to a new home. Their island had been contaminated by radioactive fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific.

Rainbow Warrior in the Brazilian port city of Belem

Blog entry by James Turner | May 10, 2012

The Rainbow Warrior is moored in the port city of Belem, here at the mouth of the Amazon river in Brazil. It’s a historic city, over 400 years old, which was established in colonial times and has become a thriving trade center ever...

Captain's Blog: The doors will open

Blog entry by Mike Finken | January 18, 2011

When actions are principally correct all the doors and weather windows open. Our stop in Green Island, has been a confirmation of that. The monsoon is wicked off Taiwan and has not stopped blowing this year and Green Island,...

Google ocean

Blog entry by Nick | February 5, 2009

A few days ago a new version of Google Earth was launched including the two thirds of the planet that was previously unmapped - our oceans! After renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle noticed the serious lack of aquatic information...

You can’t sink a rainbow

Blog entry by Greg | July 10, 2008

10 July 1985, 11.38pm, a bomb explodes under the Rainbow Warrior making a hole the size of a car. This first act of terrorism on New Zealand soil killed Fernando Pereira, a Dutch photographer for Greenpeace, and sparked worldwide...

The new Rainbow Warrior arrives in Auckland

Image gallery | January 11, 2013

The new Rainbow Warrior visits Matauri Bay

Video | January 10, 2013 at 11:34

The new Rainbow Warrior visits Matauri Bay for the first time.

Save The Amazon: New Rainbow Warrior expedition begins

Blog entry by EoinD | March 25, 2012

The world is edging closer to an ecological calamity in the Amazon. Threats to the rainforest include logging, cattle ranching, soya plantations and of course climate change. That's why the Rainbow Warrior is there now, and why...

Stories from the Rainbow Warrior: Episode 5

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | November 14, 2011

Rien Achterberg has seen Greenpeace ships come and go for 38 years. He was aboard the first Rainbow Warrior when she was bombed in Auckland harbour by French agents trying to foil our campaign against nuclear weapons testing in the...

Wind Power! Rainbow Warrior trials her sails

Blog entry by fshiraka | October 30, 2011

Don't think there's much power in the wind? I defy anyone to say that standing here on the deck of the Rainbow Warrior as she heels over at 14 degrees, 838 tonnes of steel moving at 12.8 knots on only four sails, the masts singing as...

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