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Not Just Tuna: The Truth Behind Chicken of the Sea’s Label
Most cans of tuna on supermarket shelves hold dark secrets: exploited fishermen, dead sharks, and dying oceans. Workers have reported being beaten, abused and forced to work on ships for…
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Intact but Not Untouched: What I Learned From an Indigenous Community’s Fight to Save Canada’s Boreal Forest
A metal-hulled outboard motorboat took me the last two hours of my three-day journey to one of the last intact forests in North America, in Canada’s Boreal forest. In the…
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How I Came to Believe We Need to Change Tuna
This story was originally published by Greenpeace International on September 9, 2015. The moment we heard we were boarding our first fishing boat, I was so overwhelmed with excitement and…
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Meet a #ShellNo Activist: Kristina
The Ask When I got the call to participate in the Portland bridge action, I was thrilled to stand up to Shell. I wasn’t given much information about what I’d…
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Putting It All on the Line to Say #ShellNo
It was the morning of July 30, and we had been on rope for about 30 hours. The Fennica had just retreated in shame after confronting climbers, kayakers, and onshore…
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The View From the Bridge
Four lanes of traffic—honks, waves, fingers in the shape of a ‘v’ for peace or victory. Cars stop for a moment as hands reach out with bags of fruit and…
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Meet a Volunteer: Kaitlyn Organizes for Sustainable Tuna
Meet Kaitlyn, a Greenpeace volunteer from Bowling Green, Ohio. She’s leading a campaign to push her college campus to only serve sustainably caught tuna. Kaitlyn and people like you are…
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Meet a Volunteer: Psera Mobilizes Her Community to Save the Arctic
Meet Psera, a Greenpeace volunteer from Lexington, Kentucky. She’s pushing to keep fossil fuels in the ground—especially in the vulnerable Arctic—by organizing in her community. Psera and people like you…
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Meet a Volunteer: Mateo Raises Awareness for the Arctic
Meet Mateo, a Greenpeace volunteer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s joining the fight to save the Arctic by screening documentaries and raising awareness in his community. Mateo and people like…
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Natural gas: Methane’s contributions to global warming
Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal and other fossil fuels. This has led to widespread support for replacing other fossil fuels with methane, the main component of natural gas. There’s only one catch—methane is actually a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.