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Microsoft, Google, Amazon – Who’s the Biggest Climate Hypocrite?

January 27, 2020

Elizabeth Jardim

With all the frenzy around Microsoft’s carbon negative announcement, it would seem that cloud companies are champing at the bit to lead on climate solutions. But the truth is more complicated...

How Did We Get Here? The Politics Behind the Tongass Attack and Next Steps for Preservation

January 21, 2020

Lauren E. Wiggins

This directive to fully exempt a national forest from the 2001 National Roadless Rule is unprecedented. The Tongass has been protected for decades. And yet, Trump and his administrative cronies still seek a rollback on environmental protections.

NEW FILM: ‘Turtle Journey’ shows us why we urgently need to protect the oceans

January 15, 2020

Will McCallum

We’ve teamed up with with the creators of Wallace and Gromit to produce a short film of a turtle family journeying through the ocean, with special guests Olivia Colman and Helen Mirren.

Finance Drill Friday - Defunding Climate Destruction

January 13, 2020

Mariah De Los Santos

During a momentous Fire Drill Friday, climate activists, movement leaders, and celebrities came together in Capitol Hill to call on the financial sector’s worst actors to stop funding fossil fuels and the climate disaster.

Catastrophic Australia fires are the latest climate change horror – here are the facts

January 8, 2020

Helle Abelvik-Lawson

Apocalyptic scenes from Australia have shown the devastation being caused by the raging fires. Lives have been lost and thousands forced to flee their homes as millions of hectares have been consumed. Wildlife has also perished in the flames. But how has climate change made the fires so bad, and what is being done to prevent them?

Our Favorite Greenpeace Videos of 2019

December 17, 2019

Kaitlin Grable

Our team of video producers has been hard at work documenting the stories of our movement, the challenges we’ve faced, and the successes we’ve achieved.

The Best Greenpeace Photos of 2019

December 17, 2019

Kaitlin Grable

As the year, and with it an entire decade, comes to an end, we're reflecting on the sentinel moments that defined the past 12 months for Greenpeace.

A carol for a cause: asking Target to end plastic pollution

December 14, 2019

Rico Sisney

What better way to talk about Target’s plastic pollution problem than to sing a personalized carol urging the company to take action?

There is no environmental justice without social justice

December 13, 2019

When I got out of bed that morning, I thought I understood the mortal danger facing this community. But I was still not prepared to find myself staring down the barrel of an assault rifle, in a room full of people praying for our lives.

5 reasons modern slavery at sea is still possible in 2019

December 9, 2019

Guest Blogger

It's Human Rights Day 2019, and we need to take a hard look at the fishing industry.

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