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These banks are still funding dangerous oil pipelines — here’s how you can stop them
Oil companies are attempting to build dangerous pipelines across North America that cut through land, threaten Indigenous and human rights, put drinking water and wildlife at risk, and contribute to…
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You did it! Samsung chooses renewable energy!
After months of people-powered actions around the world, Samsung finally accepted our challenge to #DoWhatYouCant and taken the first steps towards 100% renewable energy!
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Global protests push Samsung to commit to 100% renewable energy – Greenpeace
"Samsung's announcement is a major step forward for the movement to build a renewably powered future. If the company follows through with meaningful actions, it will join the ranks of innovative business leaders recognising the sense of urgency around climate change..."
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5 ways people are standing up to oil pipeline companies
All over the world, people are getting more concerned about the threats posed by major new oil pipelines. They’re prone to spills and, as a result, they’re a serious risk…
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Violence against Indigenous peoples destroys our common home
Indigenous lands contain vast biological diversity. These communities are fighting not only to preserve their cultures but also to preserve what is left of Earth's wild ecosystems.
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Annual report 2016
Our planet and people are more interconnected than any world-wide-web we could create. What impacts one part, affects another and environmental protection is inextricably linked with social justice.
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Nuclear power and the collapse of society
On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…
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10 things you’ve always wanted to ask an environmental scientist
We talked to Dr. Paul Johnston, who’s worked in Greenpeace’s Science Unit for over 30 years and founded our Research Lab, about how to deal with climate deniers and what the future holds for our planet.
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Where is the hope?
How do we reverse species loss, climate change, toxins, general overshoot of Earth’s generous habitats?
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Brent Spar: The sea is not a dustbin
In August 2016, Prestel Books published Photos That Changed the World, including this image of the Greenpeace Brent Spar campaign, captured by David Sims on 16 June 1995. Greenpeace approaches…