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Onwards with a shiny clean hull to the sub-Antarctic Islands

Blog entry by Nick Young | January 28, 2013

In a moment we’ll be off again. The Rainbow Warrior is all ship shape, squeaky clean and ready to go south. And we really are heading South - next stop – the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands. The Warrior has been in a Lyttelton...

An Indivisible Link

Blog entry by Steve Abel | January 24, 2013

In Auckland we had thousands of people visit the new Rainbow Warrior and, as they waited to get on the ship, we talked to them about why the Rainbow Warrior is in New Zealand and what we hope to achieve while she’s here and beyond.

Rainbow Warrior sets sail with a hold full of stories

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | October 20, 2011

We've set sail. The world's first crowd-funded, hyper-efficient, purpose-built environmental activist sailing ship has left harbour in Bremen and we're on our way to Hamburg. To all of you who made this voyage possible, you have the...

The mind boggling size of the Pacific

Blog entry by Andrew Davies | September 7, 2015

The Pacific ocean covers approximately one-third of the Earth's surface. You could fit all the land in the world into the space it occupies – with room left over for an extra Canada. Put another way, it’s bigger than the surface of...

Rainbow Warrior visit to Matuari Bay

Image gallery | January 10, 2013

New Zealand Story

Video | December 19, 2012 at 9:17

With the new Rainbow Warrior coming Jan 2013, we got to thinking about her place in New Zealand history, about New Zealand's place in the world, and about what makes us proud to be from this little nation at the far end of the world.

The Rainbow Warrior comes to London

Video | December 20, 2011 at 8:05

On her maiden voyage the Rainbow Warrior III visited London on 12 and 13 November, and the people who helped fund her were invited along for a special view. Thank you to all those who came, and those who couldn't make it.

Rainbow Warrior Webcam

Generic multimedia item | April 26, 2010 at 20:15

The webcam from the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior ship.

A taste of ocean voyaging life on the new Rainbow Warrior

Blog entry by Dominico Zapata | November 12, 2012

Last night I awoke from my rambling slumber to the sound of alarms going off, a high-pitched tone, piercing the darkness in the middle of the night. It was nothing major, just the engineers alarm, so I went back to sleep. A couple of...

Captain's Blog: The Warrior sets sails on the Amazon

Blog entry by Pete Willcox, Captain of the Rainbow Warrior | April 2, 2012

It's 10.30 at night. I am fighting a cold, and feel like a hammered horseshoe. I look out from behind my curtain and say, "Give it a rest". Angelo, our third mate quickly retreats. This is the Italian Stallion's first trip with...

The Rainbow Warrior III is afloat

Blog entry by Rien Achtenberg | July 7, 2011

A handful of us left Greenpeace International's office in Amsterdam on Monday morning, on a special trip to Bremen to see our new, much awaited Rainbow Warrior III enter the water for the first time. After being under planning and ...

Rainbow Warrior begins sampling off Fukushima

Blog entry by nyoung | May 4, 2011

It has been a frustrating few days on the Rainbow Warrior. Until Sunday we were stopped outside of Tokyo bay, waiting out bad weather, trying to find a ship’s agent to represent us and arrange entry into port to fix our broken gyro...

Murky waters - Taiwan Fisheries Agency responds to Greenpeace calls with lies

Blog entry by nyoung | January 28, 2011

Hello from Taiwan! Below is the English translation of Taiwan Fisheries Agency’s response to Greenpeace’s protest which exposed a Flag of Convenience (FOC) fish carrier Lung Yuin in Kaoshiung port that is breaching Taiwan’s laws.

The power of bearing witness

Blog entry by Chris Hay | January 24, 2011

A dictionary definition of 'bearing witness' reads: to show by your existence that something is true. This seems to me to be only part of the story. Bearing witness is one of the founding principles of Greenpeace, up there with...

Stories from the Rainbow Warrior: Crizel

Blog entry by JulietteH | December 21, 2010

I don’t think I’ve ever felt actually honored to write a blog, but today I am. Watching the video below, I’ve been quite overwhelmed by the urgency of so many environmental issues – issues that not only slowly destroy our planet, but...

The Warrior Needs Your Help

Blog entry by nick | July 2, 2010

In just over a week, it will be the 25th anniversary of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in Auckland Harbour.  It was a pivotal moment in history for Greenpeace and for New Zealand. It galvanised our identity as a peaceful, nuclear-free...

Marshall Islands vs big nuclear - will the tiny island get the justice they deserve?

Blog entry by Jen Maman | March 22, 2016

In April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a tiny island country part of Micronesia, filed  groundbreaking lawsuits  to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the world’s nine nuclear-armed countries. Now, almost...

Where’s all the tie-dye?

Blog entry by Maya McNicoll | January 8, 2013

It is summer in New Zealand.  The season that brings the wind, the rain and the brightest sunshine all in the same day.  I’m on board a Greenpeace ship, the brand new, purpose built, Rainbow Warrior setting out to tour the coast of...

New Zealand Story - Something to be proud of

Blog entry by Nick Young | December 20, 2012

With the new Rainbow Warrior coming we got to thinking about her place in New Zealand history and about what makes us proud to be from this little nation at the far end of the world. With some help from Perendale Productions we...

The fairest catch - pole and line tuna

Blog entry by Andrea Rid | November 7, 2012

Today, I caught a tuna. It was the first fish I had ever caught in my life. And the first tuna that had to die because of me for a long time. I haven't eaten tuna for about three years. Not because I don't like the taste of it...

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