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  • Crew Onboard Arctic Sunrise in the Pacific Ocean. © Tomás Munita / Greenpeace
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    French authorities block Greenpeace ship participating in UN Ocean Conference

    Ahead of the UN Ocean Conference, the French authorities have blocked Greenpeace International’s ship Arctic Sunrise from entering the port of Nice.

    Greenpeace International
    3 Jun 2025
    3 min read
  • A Russian coast guard officer is seen pointing a gun at a Greenpeace International activist as five activists attempt to climb the 'Prirazlomnaya,' an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom platform in Russia’s Pechora Sea.
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    Looking back on the Arctic 30 after 10 years

    Ten years ago today a group of activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise climbed Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in a peaceful protest. They became known as the 'Arctic 30'.

    Mads Christensen
    18 Sep 2023
    4 min read
  • Russian security services abseil from a helicopter onto the deck of the Arctic Sunrise ship and seize the ship and crew at gunpoint (19 September, 2013)
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    European Court of Human Rights rules ‘Arctic 30’ were arbitrarily detained

    The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that Russian authorities arbitrarily detained the Arctic 30 (28 Greenpeace activists and two freelance journalists) and violated their right to freedom of expression.

    Greenpeace International
    27 Jun 2023
    3 min read
  • Fight Inequality activist Beatah Phiri in Chipata, Zambia holding a sign that reads: When is greed enough?
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    Why is Greenpeace talking about taxing the super rich?

    Taxing the super rich would raise US $2.52 trillion a year. Imagine what that could do to protect health, climate and nature. #FightInequality

    Greenpeace International
    21 Jan 2022
    4 min read
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    Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved

    This year has been the 50th Anniversary of Greenpeace. During this era, a half-century ago, citizens around the world began seeing signs of a pending ecological crisis, and began to talk about it. 

    Rex Weyler
    24 Dec 2021
    7 min read
  • Dorothy Stowe and Marie Bohlen. © Greenpeace
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    Women in the Vanguard of Ecology

    This year, Dr. Vandana Shiva's Women’s Day statement inspired me to think about some of women who have been essential to ecological awareness in human society.

    Rex Weyler
    7 May 2021
    10 min read
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    Long live Kushtau mountain and its defenders

    Greenpeace Russia joins with thousands of local protesters to protect a biologically and culturally significant mountain from limestone mining.

    Vasilisa Yagodina
    18 Aug 2020
    5 min read
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