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How One New York Community Is Taking Ocean Destruction Off Its Shelves
What if big tuna brands could learn from every grocery store in America that we, the consumers, demand the protection of our oceans and the rights of seafood workers? In…
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Unlikely Heroes: The Grandparents Standing Up to Save the Last Dugongs
Henoko Bay in Okinawa Japan is a marvel. It is home to 262 endangered species including blue corals, sea turtles and the very rare Japanese dugong. But the Japanese government…
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Monsanto, Student Activism, and a New Normal
After a long Wednesday of classes, I tossed my backpack onto the kitchen table and decided to check my emails one last time before cooking dinner. Scanning my inbox, I…
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Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa
There are moments in life when something so shocking, so seemingly impossible happens, that you forever remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard about it.…
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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Join the Environmental Movement
The author of this article is a Greenpeace volunteer group leader. To get involved and volunteer with Greenpeace, check out Greenwire. When I was little, I remember telling my parents that I…
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Choked in Smoke: This Is What It’s Like Living in the Thick of Indonesia’s Haze
This story was originally published by Greenpeace International. My wife and daughter should be at our home in Pekanbaru, Riau, on the east of Sumatra right now. It’s been more…
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I’m Vegan — Here’s Why I’m Fighting to Change the Tuna Industry
Dong Yu 1518 was an isolated island in a watery world: a long-distance vessel that had been at sea for months fishing for tuna in the Pacific Ocean. And I was…
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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…