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  • Dry Grass Fire in the Astrakhan Nature Reserve © Igor Podgorny / Greenpeace

    Fire and Rain

    The year 2017 may become a historic milestone where the visceral effects of global heating - extreme storms and wildfires - finally reach public consciousness.

    Rex Weyler 7 min read
  • Pongo Tapanuliensis in Northern Sumatra © Tri Wahyu Susanto / Greenpeace

    Newly discovered orangutan species in Indonesia already at risk

    Jakarta, Indonesia, 3 November 2017 - Researchers have announced the discovery of a new species of orangutan in the north of Sumatra Island. The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) is the first new addition in almost a century to the small club of great apes, joining its fellow Sumatran and Borneo orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and…

    Greenpeace International 2 min read
  • Aerial View over Forest near Lake Blecktjärnen in Sweden © Edward Beskow / Greenpeace

    People all over the world ask Essity to stop wiping away the Great Northern Forest

    Stockholm, 26 October 2017 – Greenpeace Nordic representatives and Sámi artist, Sofia Jannok delivered the signatures of almost a quarter of a million people to Essity in Stockholm today. Signatories are asking Essity to clean up its supply chain and ensure that the company is not involved in the destruction of the last critical forest…

    Greenpeace International 2 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
  • Forest near Lake Blecktjärnen in Sweden © Edward Beskow / Greenpeace

    The many faces defending the Great Northern Forest

    “Hi, would you like to have your photograph taken to help protect the Great Northern Forest?” Earlier this year, we took to the streets to ask people this very question. Our dream is that the critical forest landscapes in this beautiful forest should be protected.

    Ethan Gilbert 2 min read
  • Brown Bear in Sweden © Günter Lenhardt

    How your tissue could be wiping away amazing forests

    You smell it first – the smell of recently splintered trees is so strong that it hits me long before I reach the logging site. The tree stumps are still sticky with resin. A few hours ago this was a lush forest with trees that had stood tall for over a hundred years. Now it…

    Lina Burnelius 3 min read
  • Wiping Away the Boreal @Greenpeace

    Wiping Away the Boreal

    Human activities are currently driving the world’s species to extinction at up to 1,000 times the natural rate. To protect biodiversity and the functioning ecosystems that are vital to our wellbeing, we must reduce and ultimately halt our destruction and degradation of natural habitat.

    Greenpeace International 2 min read
  • 'Our Voices Are Vital' Book Delivery to Publishers in New York © Stephanie Keith / Greenpeace

    What happened when we demanded that publishers hear the voices of 500,000 of you

    More than half a million people have stood up for free speech and for the Canadian boreal forest, raising their voices to call on the largest global publishers to pay attention and be our allies. 

    Amy Moas 5 min read
  • We speak for the trees

    When Resolute Forest Products, Canada’s largest logging company, threw two multi-million dollar lawsuits at Greenpeace and Stand.Earth for speaking out for the protection of the Canadian boreal forest, people around the world did not sit idly by.

    Ethan Gilbert 2 min read
  • Silent Spring, 2017

    In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, drawing attention to the impact of DDT on bird populations. Her book inspired most nations to ban DDT by the 1980s. The ban and other protection efforts helped save some bird species from extinction, including the osprey, brown pelican, and white stork. However, fifty-five years after Carson's book,…

    Rex Weyler 7 min read