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  • Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler. © Greenpeace / Alan Katowitz
    Stories
    AboutUs 50Years

    Pillars of Greenpeace leave a legacy

    Jim Bohlen and Dorothy Stowe both lived full lives as agents of social change, that leave us much to ponder and to emulate.

    Rex Weyler
    6 Aug 2010
    7 min read
  • Greenpeace Taiwan activists in front of 7-Eleven. © Greenpeace
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    Consumption

    7-Eleven Taiwan announces phase-out of single-use plastics, a first in Asia!

    7-Eleven Taiwan has announced that it will phase out single-use plastics, the first major convenience store chain in Asia to do so.

    Cony Chang
    6 May 2021
    4 min read
  • Action in Honor of 400 Thousand Lives Lost to Covid-19 in Brazil. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace
    Press Releases
    Health

    Activists use COVID relief supplies to mark enormous death toll in Brazil

    As Brazil flies past the tragic milestone of four hundred thousand deaths by Covid-19, Greenpeace Brazil activists diplay 14-metre high and 92 metre-long message spelling out, “400 thousand lives” paying homage and pledging solidarity with the victims of the pandemic and their families.

    Greenpeace International
    30 Apr 2021
    2 min read
  • Action in Madrid to Commemorate the Paris Climate Agreement. © Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace
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    Climate

    Climate leadership requires fossil fuel phase out and nature protection

    True climate leadership requires laws and regulations to phase out fossil fuels, end deforestation, and restore nature.

    Greenpeace International
    21 Apr 2021
    3 min read
  • Great Skua and Fulmar in the North Sea. © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace
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    Forests Oceans

    Earth Day 2021

    The last two years have been truly challenging for all of humanity. But we can now take comfort in the fact that we are on the road to recovery.

    Sudhanshu Malhotra
    20 Apr 2021
    2 min read
  • Forest and reindeer documentation in Muonio. © Rasmus Törnqvist / Greenpeace
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    Forests

    Swedish ‘sustainable’ forestry is threatening our home and livelihood

    Reindeer herding is not just a profession. Our families have lived in these lands and worked with forest Sámi reindeer herding for hundreds of years.

    Katarina Sevä
    20 Apr 2021
    3 min read
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    High Stakes

    The Indian Ocean is home to immense biodiversity, yet It is estimated that around one third of the assessed fish populations here are overfished.

    Greenpeace International
    12 Apr 2021
    1 min read
  • Protest Against Deep Sea Mining In The Pacific. © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace
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    RainbowWarrior AboutUs Oceans

    Deep sea mining industry confronted at sea for first time by Greenpeace

    Activists on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior have taken the first ever action at sea against companies preparing to mine the Pacific Ocean seabed.

    Greenpeace International
    6 Apr 2021
    2 min read
  • Deforestation in Papua. © Ardiles Rante / Greenpeace
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    Consumption Forests Climate

    Planned deforestation threatens Indigenous land, intact forest landscapes in West Papua

    Despite the promise of a palm oil permit review, companies still hold permits over primary forest areas and peatland which had their protection removed and not a single area appears to have been taken back into the forest estate.

    Greenpeace International
    5 Apr 2021
    3 min read
  • Dorothy Metcalfe (right) with Dorothy Stowe and Rex Weyler, 2004. © Rex Weyler
    Stories
    AboutUs 50Years

    The women who founded Greenpeace

    Although men got most of the headlines in the early Greenpeace campaigns, many strong and visionary women helped bring Greenpeace to life. The family of Greenpeace co-founder Dorothy Stowe –…

    Rex Weyler
    17 Sep 2010
    6 min read
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