All articles by Greenpeace International
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Ecological Farming
We are living with a broken food system. It needs to be replaced urgently for the benefit of all people, and the planet. Greenpeace's Food and Farming Vision describes what Ecological Farming means, and how it can be summarised in seven overarching, interdependent principles – based on a growing body of scientific evidence.
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Greenpeace demands scale up of ecological farming
Amsterdam, 18 May, 2015 – Ecological farming, a path towards an agricultural model that protects the environment and secures farmers' livelihood, has been mapped out in a Greenpeace report released today. It is a system based on the latest scientific innovations and produces healthy food while working with nature.
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Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior brings relief to Vanuatu’s stranded islands
Port Vila, 16 May, 2015 - Greenpeace's flagship vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, will arrive in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on Monday to help deliver relief to Vanuatu's outlying islands, many of which are still stranded without electricity or basic living essentials.
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Clicking Clean
While there may be significant energy efficiency gains from moving our lives online, the explosive growth of our digital lives is outstripping those gains. Publishing conglomerates now consume more energy from their data centers than their printing presses. Greenpeace has estimated that the aggregate electricity demand of our digital infrastructure back in 2011 would have…
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Pesticides and our Health
Since 1950 the human population has doubled, yet the area of arable land used to feed these people has increased by only 10%. There are huge pressures to provide food, at low cost, on land that is becoming more and more degraded as nutrients are stripped from the soil. Reliance on external inputs – fertilisers…
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Greenpeace report reveals farmers are the most vulnerable to health risks from pesticides
Exeter/Hamburg, 12 May, 2015 – A review of scientific literature shows clear evidence that exposure to certain pesticides, currently allowed in European fields, is associated with different forms of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and diseases of the newborn. This is the conclusion of a new report published today by Greenpeace, Pesticides…
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Greenpeace climbers leave Arctic oil drilling rig
Pacific Ocean, 11 April 2015 - The six climbers who safely intercepted, scaled, and set up camp on an Arctic-bound Shell oil drilling rig in the Pacific have come down today after spending almost a week on the 38,000 tonne platform.
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Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise detained in Spain following oil protest
Lanzarote, Spain, 18 November 2014 - The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has today been detained by Spanish authorities in the port of Arrecife, Lanzarote, following last Saturday's peaceful protest by Greenpeace against oil drilling by Repsol, in the Canary Islands.
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Greenpeace activist hospitalised after Spanish Navy rams boats in oil protest
Amsterdam, 15 November 2014 – One activist was hospitalised and another injured as Spanish Navy boats today repeatedly rammed Greenpeace boats engaged in a peaceful protest by Greenpeace Spain against oil drilling in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Smart Breeding
GE crops are very limited in sophistication, being almost completely dominated by herbicide tolerance and insect resistance traits. Could the numerous tools of biotechnology deliver better outcomes? This report tries to answer that question.