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Wings of Paradise: Drawing attention to rainforest destruction
After ravaging the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, the palm oil industry has reached the final frontier, Papua, home to the Birds of Paradise.
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The Zero Draft Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights
This is a story about power; who has it and how they use it. The growth of corporate power over the decades has changed how governments make policy and what…
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Justice for Berta Cáceres, justice for people and the planet
Violence against environmental defenders is at an all-time high. It’s time for action.
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Here’s what happened at the 2018 International Whaling Commission Meeting
Over the years we have become used to polarisation between countries in these meetings, and this meeting was no different.
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What a Global Ocean Treaty means—and why it matters to all of us
By shining a spotlight on these talks and hand-delivering origami sea creatures directly to negotiators, with the message “The fate of our oceans is in your hands”, we wanted to make sure that governments know that the world is watching and that we expect results.
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Hothouse Earth
The Hothouse Earth study warns that with a heating of 3 or 4°C, Earth's "self-reinforcing feedbacks" -- wildfires, methane release, forest dieback, and so forth -- can drive the temperature even higher.
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How I woke up to the plastic pollution problem
"The water seemed more like a trash site than ocean."
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10 good reasons to not kill whales (as if you needed them)
We know that whales are important for the oceans, and we know that as long-lived, slow-growing animals they are much more susceptible to overfishing than actual fish.
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What to expect at the 2018 International Whaling Commission meeting in Brazil
Delegates from global governments, and NGO representatives are in Brazil for a very special meeting that happens only once every two years: the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
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A brief history of commercial whaling and Greenpeace
Commercial whaling devastated the world’s biggest whale species, pushing some of them to the very brink of extinction in the first half of the 20th Century.