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  • Geneva Streets Painted Black to Call Out Big Oil’s Chokehold on Global Plastic Treaty Talks. © Samuel Schalch / Greenpeace
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    Plastics

    Still no Plastics Treaty: How the fossil fuel industry keeps polluting negotiations

    It’s time for world leaders to confront the elephant in the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiation room: Big Oil.

    Sarah King •
    19 Aug 2025
    7 min read
  • "Made for the bin?!" Action against Fast Fashion in Vienna.
    Stories
    Plastics

    How fast fashion fuels climate change, plastic pollution, and violence

    We all have to wear clothes, and they need to be affordable for everyone. But there is a better way.

    Helle Abelvik-Lawson •
    22 Sep 2023
    12 min read
  • Nuclear Power Plant Philippsburg. © Bernd Hartung / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Nuclear, Peace

    6 reasons why nuclear energy is not the way to a green and peaceful world

    With the costs and efficiency of renewable energy solutions improving year on year, and the effects of our rapidly changing climate accelerating across the globe, we need to take an honest look at some of the myths being perpetuated by the nuclear industry and its supporters. Here are six reasons why nuclear power is not…

    Mehdi Leman •
    18 Mar 2022
    8 min read
  • Crew of the Greenpeace. © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere
    Stories
    50Years

    A Brief History of Environmentalism

    Anthropologists have found evidence of human-induced animal and plant extinctions from 50,000 BCE, when only about 200,000 Homo sapiens roamed the Earth. We can only speculate about how these early humans reacted, but migrating to new habitats appears to be a common response.

    Rex Weyler •
    5 Jan 2018
    8 min read

  • Rally for Re-elected Indonesian President in Jakarta. © Afriadi Hikmal / Greenpeace
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    Climate Consumption Peace MoneyForChange

    Earth Overshoot Day: Choosing the path of self-sufficiency

    August 2nd is Earth Overshoot Day, when the planet groans, burdened by the greed of richer, over-consuming countries and people.

    Attila Kulcsar •
    2 Aug 2023
    4 min read
  • Aerial Documentation in the Kayapó Indigenous Land. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests

    The calling of Raoni and the strength of now

    Witnessing, alongside Indigenous Leader Raoni, the destruction caused by gold mining in the Kayapó Territory, is a wake-up call for urgent, effective and firm action: we need an Amazon free of illegal mining.

    Carolina Pasquali •
    2 Aug 2023
    5 min read
  • ISA Welcome Ceremony in Kingston. © Martin Katz / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oceans

    Deep sea mining concerns from the Pacific need to be heard

    When it comes to the campaign to stop deep sea mining, the stakes may be highest for Pacific communities.

    Maud Oyonarte •
    1 Aug 2023
    7 min read
  • System Shift Podcast Series
    Stories
    Climate Consumption Health MoneyForChange

    Earth Overshoot Day: An abundance of ideas to fix the rigged economic system

    Earth Overshoot Day reminds us that humanity’s richest are breaching the limits of our planet’s ability to support life in all its forms.

    Attila Kulcsar •
    31 Jul 2023
    4 min read
  • Typhoon Mawar in Santa Ana. © Basilio H. Sepe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    ExtremeWeather

    #CitizenClimate Series 06: Jefferson Chua

    Citizen Climate is an on-going series about global citizens taking action, big and small, for the sake of a healthier planet for us all.

    Tan Lee Kuen •
    28 Jul 2023
    7 min read
  • Miniature for Barbie Vs Oppenheimer blog. Left: June 2011, Barbie Mattel Action in Amsterdam Greenpeace activists dressed as "Barbie" and "Ken" pose with pink chainsaws to hand out campaign leaflets to the public. Right: March 1954, Castle Romeo nuclear test (yield 11 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Photo Library under number XX-33. US Department Of Energy, Public Domain.
    Stories
    Consumption Forests Nuclear Plastics

    Barbie vs Oppenheimer: two diametrically opposed universes that remind us of two existential threats

    “Barbenheimer” is probably the film event of the year. For the Greenpeace community, these two films echo past and present campaigns against very real existential threats: deforestation, plastic pollution and nuclear annihilation.

    Mehdi Leman •
    21 Jul 2023
    5 min read
  • Protest against Deep Sea Mining in Prague. © Greenpeace / Petr Zewlakk Vrabec
    Stories
    Oceans

    Deep sea mining is a concrete threat we can shut down now

    The natural wonders of the deep ocean are in danger despite the adoption of a historic Global Oceans Treaty. Right now, the greedy deep sea mining industry is hoping to rip up the seabed for profits.

    Maud Oyonarte •
    20 Jul 2023
    5 min read
  • Satellite pictures showing rescue vessels NDEAVOR and NAUTICA (renamed YEMEN) alongside the FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen, in the Red Sea.
    Stories
    Oil Oceans

    Defusing Disaster: Oil transfer from FSO SAFER to turn off the Ticking Time Bomb

    Greenpeace demands polluters be held financially responsible and rise up to the needs of the next stage of the salvage operation of the FSO Safer, abandoned off Yemen's Red Sea port of Hudaydah after the civil war broke out in the country in 2015.

    Ghiwa Nakat •
    20 Jul 2023
    4 min read
  • A man holds an umbrella while standing on the banks of swollen river Satluj after heavy monsoon rains in Rampur, in India's Himachal Pradesh state. © AFP via Getty Images
    Stories
    Climate Fires Oceans ExtremeWeather

    We are in the middle of an extreme climate mess

    Our oceans are warming up and changing their colour due to climate change. Summers are getting hotter and hotter in many parts of the world, with temperatures reaching as high as 45C.

    Sudhanshu Malhotra •
    14 Jul 2023
    4 min read
  • A group of senior Swiss women lay giant band-aids on newly exposed earth between the melting Scex Rouge and Tsanfleuron Glaciers, to protest the Swiss government’s inaction on the growing climate emergency and its impacts on health. © Matthias Lüscher / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Wins

    Good news stories from around the world – May/June

    Notable wins in the climate and environmental justice space to inspire us in our fight for a better, greener, and fairer world for all.

    Greenpeace International •
    30 Jun 2023
    5 min read
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