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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

  • Pacific activist Quack Pirihi with the Tino Rangatiratanga flag, also known as the national Māori flag, onboard the Arctic Sunrise heading to the ISA in Jamaica. © Martin Katz / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oceans

    ‘We can’t be Māori without the ocean’ — Quack Pirihi, Pacific activist against deep sea mining

    My name is Quack Pirihi. I am an Aotearoa (New Zealand) activist and campaigner who is part of the Pacific delegation attending the International Seabed Authority (ISA) conference.

    Quack Pirihi •
    21 Mar 2023
    3 min read
  • Ranipa Festival Day 2. © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests

    In West Papua, using culture to save the forest

    What I saw and experienced in Indonesia is how cultural campaigning can be a powerful tool to enhance people's power to address serious and urgent issues, including loss of forests, and resist state policies that destroy culture and heritage.

    Savio Carvalho •
    21 Mar 2023
    6 min read
  • Projection for Climate Emergency at EU Commission in Brussels. © Eric De Mildt / Greenpeace
    Stories
    IPCC Climate

    10 things to know about the IPCC Climate Science Report 

    World’s leading climate scientists just released their first comprehensive assessment of the climate emergency since the Paris Agreement. Here's what you should know.

    Kaisa Kosonen and Reyes Tirado •
    20 Mar 2023
    11 min read
  • Action at European Council Summit in Brussels. © Eric De Mildt / Greenpeace
    Stories
    IPCC Climate ExtremeWeather

    When climate scientists set the graphs on fire

    The IPCC has developed a diagram that would illustrate, in one color-coded graph, their overall assessment on how global risks and impacts increase as temperature increases.

    Kaisa Kosonen •
    20 Mar 2023
    5 min read
  • Luchelle Feukeng is a Communication's Consultant at Greenpeace Africa based in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
    Stories
    Peace Health

    So nice! My dream for African women

    From Cameroon to DRC, Senegal, Kenya and South Africa, Luchelle’s dream of African women is a cross-continental tour of what’s possible, if governments put people and nature before corporate profits.

    Luchelle Feukeng •
    17 Mar 2023
    4 min read
  • Renata Peixe Boi, Boca da Mata communal kitchen with chief Lutana Kokama © Rodrigo Duarte
    Stories
    Forests Health Food AlternativeFutures Amazon

    Fighting for inclusion and justice in Brazil’s Amazonas capital

    At the meeting point of the Rio Negro and the Amazon lies Manaus, capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, people are connecting younger generations with their roots to help counter the alienation they feel in the modern world. 

    Renata Nitta •
    9 Mar 2023
    5 min read
  • Protect the Oceans Projection onto the Guggenheim Museum in New York. © Greenpeace
    Stories
    Oceans

    How people power helped protect the oceans

    After years of campaigning, a historic international Ocean Treaty has finally been agreed.

    Gaby Flores •
    9 Mar 2023
    4 min read
  • Victorine Che Thöner, spokesperson from Germany and originally from Cameroon in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Victorine is holding a hand banner that reads 'Stop Drilling. Start Paying.'
    Stories
    Oil Climate ArcticSunrise

    Standing up to fossil fuel oppression with courageous resilient women

    I, being a woman and a mother, feel that strong connection to women in impacted communities. A woman represents to me - and I hope to you as well - the epitome of courage, strength, resilience and connectivity in society and the world. We are in this together!

    Victorine Che Thöner •
    9 Mar 2023
    7 min read
  • International Women's Day March 2019 in Seoul. © Soojung Do / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution

    The fossil fuel industry is inherently patriarchal and criminal

    Women and gender minorities are disproportionately harmed by the fossil fuel industry’s corporate violence and destruction, despite despite claims of progress

    Lisa Göldner •
    8 Mar 2023
    4 min read
  • Climate Activists Stop TotalEnergies’ AGM in Paris.
    Stories
    AboutUs EnergyRevolution Oil

    Meet the Greenpeace women campaigning to end the age of fossil fuels

    To avoid even more catastrophic extreme weather events and health hazards from coal, oil and gas projects, we must push back against polluting industries. Every new fossil fuel project makes our planet less and less habitable.

    Fiona Ivits & Tal Harris •
    8 Mar 2023
    6 min read
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