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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

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    AboutUs Climate 50Years

    Marking 50 years of hope in action

    Today we need huge, unprecedented change. For billions to unite as a movement, taking action around the world and demanding a green and peaceful future. And it is possible.

    Jennifer Morgan •
    15 Sep 2021
    3 min read
  • Activists March at Nestle HQ in the Philippines. © Basilio H. Sepe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution Consumption Oil Climate

    Plastic worsens the climate crisis, from the Philippines to the United States

    At every step of its life cycle, plastic production makes the climate crisis worse by releasing harmful emissions and putting vulnerable communities further at risk. Fossil fuel and consumer goods companies are the villains in this story.

    Marian Ledesma and Graham Forbes •
    14 Sep 2021
    7 min read
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    50Years

    50 years of Greenpeace: Looking back and looking forward

    This month, Greenpeace celebrates 50 years of environmental activism, dating from the first campaign to stop a nuclear bomb test in Alaska, launched from Vancouver Canada, on Sept. 15, 1971.

    Rex Weyler •
    12 Sep 2021
    9 min read
  • Clean Air Now Action in Bucharest, Romania. © Catalin Georgescu / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution

    Mobility and the city: 5 questions for Antonia, Romania

    As part of European Mobility Week, the #MobilityForAll campaign conducted a series of interviews with people from underrepresented communities across Europe.

    Sylvia Arthur •
    10 Sep 2021
    3 min read
  • Soviet Whaling Action in North Pacific. © Greenpeace / Rex Weyler
    Stories
    AboutUs 50Years Photography

    Photographic Memories

    From 1974 to 1982, I served as photographer on Greenpeace campaigns. Here are a dozen photographs from those years and some memories that they evoke. 

    Rex Weyler •
    10 Sep 2021
    9 min read
  • Project North Sea: Activists swim to oil rig to show that Denmark is not as green as people think. © Andrew McConnell / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution Oil Climate

    We must break the soft power of the fossil fuel industry

    The sooner we take the microphone away from fossil fuel companies, the faster we will be able to make them change their harmful ways of working and start a green and just transition for real.

    Mehdi Leman •
    6 Sep 2021
    6 min read
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    Climate ExtremeWeather

    New York City flooding is the new climate crisis normal

    Images of flooding in New York City reveal both the severity of fossil fuel-driven climate change but also the ways in which infrastructure in communities around the world is ill-prepared for it.

    Chris Greenberg •
    3 Sep 2021
    4 min read
  • 25-year old Athina Antoine, sunglasses and dark blue swim top and shorts, has been a part of the Nature Seychelles’ Reef Rescuers (white boat) team since 2017
    Stories
    Oceans

    A day in the life of a Reef Rescuer – Vital Ocean Voices

    A day in the life of a rescuer - a young Seychelloise woman helping to restore lagoon ecosystems and bleached coral.

    Liz Mwambui •
    26 Aug 2021
    7 min read
  • Diederick van den Ende walking with Pride. © Marten van Dijl / Greenpeace
    Stories
    AboutUs Climate

    Pride is a protest!

    The climate crisis and the position of sexual and gender minorities are not unrelated. LGBTI communities are often disproportionately affected by the climate crisis. We believe that a diverse and inclusive movement is a stronger movement.

    Diederick van den Ende •
    20 Aug 2021
    3 min read
  • A drone shot of a US Coast Guard ship with men on deck is in Beaufort Sea with floating ice chunks.
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    Climate Photography

    The power of photography as we enter ‘code red for humanity’

    How do we visually communicate the climate emergency? Can photography help to raise awareness of the climate crisis?

    Tan Lee Kuen •
    19 Aug 2021
    9 min read
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