The courageous Inuit community of Clyde River is standing up to protect their Arctic home from devastating seismic blasting.

The circumpolar Arctic is home to four million people representing a diversity of cultures. As northerners, they share many connections, but in this year of record breaking high temperatures, one stands out among the rest: the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Inevitably, this means daily life for those who live in the Arctic is changing fast, too.

Mayor of Clyde River, James Qillaq, former mayor of Clyde River, Jerry Natanine and Jerry's daughter, Clara Natanine hold a banner reading “Save the Arctic: it’s our home” on the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise.

Melting sea ice is opening up new waters that are of immediate interest to the oil industry ...

Like most people, I don’t go anywhere without my phone. In the morning, its shrill alarm rouses me from sleep. During the day it bobs between my ear, my hand, and my pocket. At night, I hunt for Pokémon before putting it away on the nightstand. My phone is my MP3 player, my camera, and my GPS system—all in one. I really believe that technology is a driving force for good in the world. It makes our lives better.

I’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to repair their electronics—things like smartphones, computers, and tablets. I do it because even though we love our gizmos, we treat them like they’re disposable: things we can use up, throw away, and buy again without a second thought.

Today people go through smartphones like they go through jeans—at the rate of one new phone eve... Read more >

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Back in July, Greenpeace East Asia ranked 30 global companies to see how they measured in terms of their commitment to phasing out microbeads – the tiny terrors that are often found in shower gels and facial scrubs, and are known to wreak havoc on our ecosystems and marine life.

About 0.5mm or smaller in size, these tiny beads really pack a punch, running scot-free into our oceans and impacting marine life.

Among the major companies, such as Estee Lauder, Chanel and Amway we found that a majority of major brands have failed to remove microplastics from their products, despite promises; whilst others simply refused to publicly acknowledge the environmental impact of microbeads.

So what's happened since Greenpeace East Asia released the microbeads ranking? Here's wh...

Every time you eat in a restaurant, hospital, airport, a university cafeteria, or at even at a rock concert, it is likely that you are eating food provided by a large foodservice company. Sea of Distress, a brand new Greenpeace US report, highlights which large food companies are failing to protect workers and our oceans.

But, what exactly is foodservice? Read more >

Foodservice is one of the largest industries we give our money to, but most of us know nothing about. These companies buy and sell tons of seafood, and some of it is destructively caught and potentially connected to forced labour.

In the US, roughly half of the money Americans spend on food outside the home is gobbled up by the foodservice industry. But if you don’t live in the US, why should you care? 

Some large clients of US f...

I live in Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) in the Canadian Arctic. Most people have never heard of my town. It's 450km north of the Arctic Circle with a population of roughly 1,000. We are isolated from much of the world, but we feel very connected to our land, sea, and sky. 

Aerial view of Clyde River

Living in this part of the Canadian Arctic is pretty different than where most of you reading this might live. We only have one store, one school, and no hospital. There are no roads to other towns, but people do manage to travel by boat, snowmobile, or ATV to go far out on to the land, mostly for hunting trips to provide essential food for our families, elders, and anyone else in the community who is in need of food, free of charge. The one grocery store is so expensive that without the food... Read more >