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  • Children Play in Central Java © Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace

    World scientists’ warning to humanity

    Environmental activists and organisations typically try and stay positive, to give people hope that we can change. Positive signs exist, going back to the historic whaling and toxic dumping bans of the 1980s. The 1987 Montreal Protocol, reducing CFC gas emissions, led to a partial recovery of the ozone hole. Birth rates have declined in…

    Rex Weyler 7 min read
  • Impressions Make Something (Smthng) Week Berlin - Visitors, Makers and Workshops © Manuela Clemens / Greenpeace

    Black Friday: Greenpeace invites public to MAKE SMTHNG and buy nothing

    Rome, 23 November 2017 - On the eve of Black Friday and the global wave of holiday shopping, Greenpeace is launching MAKE SMTHNG Week by asking everyone everywhere to create instead of consume as a way of taking a stand against hyper-consumerism.

    Greenpeace International 3 min read
  • Joint Fisheries Surveillance in Senegal © Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace

    Urgent action needed to solve West African food security threat

    Amsterdam, 21 November 2017 - Vessels arrested for illegally fishing in West African waters are still carrying on with business as usual, said a Greenpeace Africa report released today on World Fisheries Day. The report, “The Cost of Ocean Destruction”, details how West African fishermen and communities continue to suffer from the consequences of overfishing…

    Greenpeace International 4 min read
  • 2017 Beijing Design Week © Greenpeace / Wendi Wu

    Why we should MAKE SMTHNG instead of going shopping

    At the start of the holiday shopping season, we want to invite you to make something with us. In cities around the world, makers are gathering to demonstrate how we can unite to create unique alternatives to buying something new.

    Lu Yen Roloff 4 min read
  • Chilean Base Teniente Marsh Krill. © Greenpeace / Robin Culley

    License to krill

     Two days ago, the gavel came down in an adjudication decision which may, more than any other recent hammer-strike, determine the future of fishing: The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) officially bestowed its blue-and-white fish-check label to a massive factory operator that targets Antarctic krill. This is not a good thing.

    Casson Trenor 4 min read
  • Peatland Forest in DRC © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

    Give the Congo Basin forest a chance

    Approaching the forest in the Congo, I am met with an overwhelming wall of green. Flying over it, I see the meandering rivers merging together. I see animals drinking from the rivers, frolicking with joy in the water. Walking into the forest, I hear a chorus of teeming life – birds, lowland and mountain gorillas,…

    Victorine Che Thoener 3 min read
  • Great news for bees – time to say goodbye to fipronil! #SOSbees

    It’s party time for bees and other species, because, starting today, the chemical pesticide fipronil can’t be used anymore in agriculture across Europe. Fipronil is a common pesticide used in agriculture and sparked an international food scandal last summer because the toxic substance was used illegally in chicken stables, contaminating eggs and eggs derivatives.

    Luis Ferreirim 3 min read
  • Eggs from ALDI Supermarket in Germany © Fred Dott / Greenpeace

    Why are there pesticides in our eggs?

    In case you missed the news this week, here’s what we know so far: during the first week in August, the Dutch food safety authority (NWMA) announced that they discovered tens of thousands of eggs contaminated with fipronil - a toxic anti-lice pesticide, banned in food production in the EU. Dutch and Belgian police have…

    Christiane Huxdorff and Davin Hutchins 3 min read
  • Winning on the world’s largest tuna company and what it means for the oceans

    It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act!

    Sarah King 4 min read
  • Action in Bangkok to Urge Thai Union for More Sustainable Tuna © Wason Wanichakorn / Greenpeace

    Thai Union commits to more sustainable, socially-responsible seafood

    Bangkok, 11 July 2017 – Thai Union Group PCL has committed to measures that will tackle illegal fishing and overfishing, as well as improve the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the company’s supply chains.

    Greenpeace International 3 min read