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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

  • People on a Road in DRC Rainforest © Thomas Einberger / argum / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests Oil

    DRC’s forests-for-oil sale reeks of neocolonialism

    Behind the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s nationalist rhetoric lie big profits for global energy giants, and hurt for poor Congolese.

    Mbong Akiy Fokwa Tsafack •
    19 Aug 2022
    4 min read
  • Activist with sign Stop climate emergency, stop oil
    Stories
    Oceans Oil

    How we’re fighting the oil industry in the Argentine Sea

    Despite constant protest from civil society, the Argentine state and the oil companies recently renewed their intention to move forward with the development of the offshore oil industry.

     Laura Colombo •
    16 Aug 2022
    5 min read
  • Smiling black woman in graphic brown and white patterned dress and stripy headscarf, ecological farmer Stella Muthama in Kenya, looks at the camera with her ploughing tool over her shoulder and crops in the background.
    Stories
    Climate Consumption Food Health

    Hunger profiteers vs sustainable food

    As the cost of living skyrockets, greedy corporations are profiting from hunger. The global food system is broken. But ecological farmers are sowing seeds of change.

    Savio Carvalho •
    11 Aug 2022
    5 min read
  • A woman loads garment offcuts into a brick kiln located in Kandal Province, Cambodia.
    Stories
    Consumption

    Cambodia workers pay the price of Fast Fashion’s supply chain waste problem

    An investigation by Unearthed has found that garment waste from clothes made for big fashion brands is being burnt in brick kilns in Cambodia.

    Viola Wohlgemuth •
    11 Aug 2022
    4 min read
  • Super Typhoon Rai Aftermath in Surigao City, Philippines © Jilson Tiu / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Health

    The UN officially recognised the right to a healthy environment. Here’s what that means.

    Historic UN resolution recognises the universal human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment - what it means for people and planet.

    Maria Alejandra Serra Barney and Richard Harvey •
    9 Aug 2022
    5 min read
  • Author and feminist activist Pregs Govender.
    Stories
    Peace

    In Conversation with anti-apartheid activist Pregs Govender 

    Renowned anti-apartheid activist, politician and author Pregs Govender chats to fellow author and Greenpeace Storytelling Advisor Yewande Omotoso about her activism - then, and now

    Yewande Omotoso •
    7 Aug 2022
    5 min read
  • Aerial view of the remote Millstream National Park, Western Australia, near Woodside's Burrup gas hub region
    Stories
    Health

    Coping with climate grief: advice from an environmental psychologist

    When we raise our expectations about what is possible, grow our inner strength muscles, and do what matters, we can have a personal and a collective impact.

    Dr Susie Burke •
    5 Aug 2022
    4 min read
  • Angelo Louw in Lenasia, South Africa
    Stories
    Peace

    How the climate crisis is perpetuating hate crimes in South Africa 

    Without sensitisation of the climate crisis, the LGBTQIA+ community remain at risk of violence, exclusion from the economy and climate relief efforts

    Angelo Louw •
    2 Aug 2022
    4 min read
  • Emma Thompson onboard the MV Rainbow Warrior in Venice, Italy. © Greenpeace / Lorenzo Moscia
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution

    Greenwashing is driving our descent into climate catastrophe. But we can stop it

    Activism works. If we could ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship, we can ban fossil fuel propaganda

    Emma Thompson •
    2 Aug 2022
    4 min read
  • Manicoré River in the Amazon in Brazil
    Stories
    Forests

    That work that rekindles the sparkle in our eyes

    Returning to the Amazon and witnessing its splendor renews our strength to fight against the destruction and violence that consume us and the forest.

    Cristiane Mazzetti •
    22 Jul 2022
    7 min read
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