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Greenpeace Executive Director Russel Norman swimming with buoy and banner that reads "Rise Up / End Oil" in front of seismic testing vessel Amazon Warrior. © Jason Blair / Greenpeace
Greenpeace and local water activists stage a democratic occupation at ECAN in Christchurch demanding better protection for rivers. © Nigel Marple / Greenpeace
A crowd of more than 40,000 people march against the NZ Government's plans to mine thousands of hectares of prime conservation land, including National Parks. The march up Auckland's Queen St was organised by Greenpeace and a range of other groups. © Nigel Marple / Greenpeace
We know that plastics are choking our oceans, and putting the creatures that call it home at risk. We need…
Call on Energy Minister Megan Woods to end oil & gas subsidies, and use that $88m/year to put solar panels…
February 2019
New Zealand’s water quality, soil health, and biodiversity are in decline, and emissions of dangerous greenhouse gases are increasing. We have a moral obligation to future generations to curb this…
March 2011
Many of us watched dumbfounded as the oil-spill disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico unfolded in 2010. Amazingly, as the oil was gushing from BP’s well, Energy and Resources…
May 2005
Coal is the dirtiest of all fuels. From mining to coal cleaning, from transportation to electricity generation to disposal, coal releases numerous toxic pollutants into the air, water and land.…
As electric vehicles and cheap solar panels cut into the demand for petroleum-based fuels, an increasingly desperate oil industry has been banking on plastics to drive future demand growth. Here are three…
Flooding in Japan, unprecedented monsoons in India, a nearly 30% increase in rainfallthroughout the Americas and 40% across Europe. Africa is seeing deadly droughtsacross Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. Australia, Greece, Sweden, Portugal and the…
Here’s to everything you’ve done in 2018, and to a busy year ahead! Please watch and share this video to help us say thank you to the rest of the…
On the Rainbow Warrior, I’ve just been to one of the most incredible places I’ve ever seen – Rakiura/Stewart Island. Here, the coast is so thick with rainforest it seems…
After 17 heartbreaking days, Tahlequah (J35), the orca mother who captured the world’s attention, has finally stopped carrying her dead calf through the Salish Sea off the Pacific coast of…
