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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

  • Smoke Billowing over Oil Plants. © Greenpeace / Colin O'Connor
    Stories
    Climate Oil

    The Great Carbon Capture Scam

    Oil companies hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum also schemed to turn the ecological crisis into a profit centre.

    Rex Weyler •
    1 Jun 2022
    10 min read
  • Rotterdam The Hague Airport in the Netherlands. © Marten  van Dijl / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Climate EnergyRevolution

    Busted: 5 tricks the aviation industry plays on us to appear green

    Climate scientists have warned that the limit of 1.5°C is close to being broken, let’s take a closer look at the green promises and climate actions of airlines – and dissect their carbon jargon!

    Herwig Schuster •
    1 Jun 2022
    7 min read
  • Silhouette of San on top of dunes at sunset. Stampriet District, Namibia
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution

    5 Reasons to Save the Okavango Delta from Oil Colonialism

    Youth climate activists in the Namibian capital, together with Indigenous, environmental and human rights groups, are taking action to prevent a fossil fuel industry-driven catastrophe in the Okavango Delta

    Angelo Louw •
    25 May 2022
    5 min read
  • Nina, a young plastic activist from Indonesia picks up plastic trash (The Recycling Myth). © a&o buero
    Stories
    Plastics Consumption Health Oil

    Bribery, fraud and large-scale greenwashing: WHY PLASTIC? exposes the grim reality of plastic ‘recycling’

    Plastic has pushed our planet to the brink of one of the worst environmental crises in modern history. It’s a topic shrouded in confusion and misleading information.

    Rachel Sheary, THE WHY Foundation •
    24 May 2022
    4 min read
  • Fire Monitoring in the Amazon in July, 2021. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests Oceans

    10 facts about biodiversity, nature protection, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights

    From unimaginable habitat loss to heartbreaking species extinctions, it shouldn’t be a surprise to any of us that our biodiversity continues to suffer from human greed, exploitation, encroachment, and neglect.

    August Rick •
    22 May 2022
    3 min read
  • Ecological Farming in Kenya. © Greenpeace / Paul Basweti
    Stories
    Food

    They call it a food crisis… Is it? 

    Global agricultural output has increased significantly with the prospect of feeding the world, yet the number of people that are going hungry or lack adequate supply of nutritious food is increasing. So where is the problem and how can we fix it?

    Savio Carvalho •
    18 May 2022
    5 min read
  • James Bay and Phyllis Cormack. © Greenpeace / Rex Weyler
    Stories
    50Years AboutUs Photography

    Photographic memories III

    From 1974 to 1982, I served as photographer on Greenpeace campaigns. This is the third collection of memories inspired by photographs of early ecology actions.

    Rex Weyler •
    18 May 2022
    9 min read
  • Boats including the Rainbow Warrior protest in a doughnut shape in Teluk Patani, Thailand, against a coal-fired project, demanding 100% Renewable Energy for All.
    Stories
    Climate Consumption MoneyForChange

    Imagine an economy of peace

    Be it the climate emergency, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine or any of the multiple other intersectional challenges the world is facing today, we are, inexplicably, in a crisis of imagination.

    Markus Trilling •
    16 May 2022
    4 min read
  • Greenpeace blocks soy ship in IJmuiden sea lock. © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Food Forests

    Feeding EU factory farms while destroying nature: Why Greenpeace is blocking a mega-ship bringing Brazilian soy to the Netherlands

    The mega-ship is the symbol of a broken system driving environmental destruction and human rights abuses.

    Sini Eräjää •
    11 May 2022
    5 min read
  • Illustration of oil company logos superimposed onto oil-slicked water
    Stories
    Oceans Oil

    Spills, explosions and looming disasters: the last thing the world needs is more oil

    Oil is a substance that’s toxic at every stage in its lifecycle, from extraction through to its end-use which produces emissions that are heating up the planet — that is the problem.

    Paul Horsman •
    9 May 2022
    6 min read
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