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

  • MYAS Arriving in Kingston Aerials. © Gladstone Taylor / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oceans

    Protect the deep sea by joining a global day of action

    All around the world, Greenpeace volunteers and concerned citizens will say NO to deep sea mining on Saturday 3 June.

    Maud Oyonarte •
    30 May 2023
    2 min read
  • Antibiotic Resistent Germs in Pork Meat in Austria. © Mitja  Kobal / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Food Health

    You need meat and dairy (says the meat and dairy industry)

    As the pressure to tackle the environmental, climate and health impact of heavy meat based diets grows, the meat industry seems to be resorting to the same playbook used by the fossil fuel business. It downplays its the climate impacts, disputes the accounting of the its responsibility for climate change, and funds scientists to support…

    Katarina Jurikova and Jelle De Mey •
    30 May 2023
    4 min read
  • James documenting plastic pollution
    Stories
    Climate

    #CitizenClimate Series 05: James Wakibia 

    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.

    Safina Okumu •
    29 May 2023
    4 min read
  • Art Installation by Benjamin Von Wong in Germany. © Daniel Müller / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Plastics Consumption Climate

    Using Art to tackle the plastic pollution crisis

    I've partnered with Greenpeace to craft a new message, one impossible to misinterpret: A colossal five meters tall machine, endlessly churning out plastics starkly laying bare the toxic union of fossil fuels and plastic production.

    Benjamin Von Wong •
    26 May 2023
    3 min read
  • Action against Private Jets at EBACE in Geneva. © Thomas Wolf / Stay Grounded / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Climate

    Climate activists arrested as private jets receive more protection than planet

    At least 102 climate activists from seventeen countries representing Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate justice groups are still being detained in Geneva, Switzerland 20 hours after a peaceful protest against Europe's largest annual private jet fair, the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE).

    Klara Maria Schenk •
    24 May 2023
    3 min read
  • Illegal Mining in Munduruku Indigenous Land in Brazil. © Chico Batata / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests Amazon

    How illegal gold mining threatens biodiversity in the Amazon

    From illegal hunting to the destruction of rivers that serve as nurseries for fish species, illegal gold mining leaves a long trail of destruction in the forest.

    Diego Gonzaga •
    22 May 2023
    4 min read
  • March for Climate Justice in London. © Angela Christofilou / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Health Climate

    Litmus test for the Council of Europe: Time to recognise and protect the right to healthy environment

    Everyone has the human right to live in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Most human rights systems in the world recognise this, but the European human rights convention needs to catch up. Here's how.

    Sébastien Duyck, Amy Jacobsen, Katharina Rall and Chiara Liguori •
    15 May 2023
    4 min read
  • Activists March at Nestle HQ in the Philippines. © Basilio H. Sepe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Plastics Consumption Climate

    Why we need a strong Global Plastics Treaty

    We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end the plastic crisis. The negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty began in 2022 and we now have until 2024 to ensure it is strong and ambitious. 

    Graham Forbes •
    2 May 2023
    3 min read
  • Tuna Caught by Spanish Longliner. © Paul Hilton / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oceans

    Three reasons to rethink tuna

    The value of the global tuna industry is expected to reach $49 billion by 2029. But can tuna populations survive at this rate of consumption? And what is the human cost of cheap tuna? The answers may leave a bad taste in your mouth.

    Marilu Cristina Flores •
    2 May 2023
    6 min read
  • Protect the Oceans Projection onto Brooklyn Bridge
    Stories
    Wins

    Good news stories from around the world – Jan-April

    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 •
    1 May 2023
    5 min read
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