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We're gonna need a bigger boat!

Our famous fleet of ships is about to get an extraordinary addition - The Rainbow Warrior III. It will be purpose built from the keel up to fight the greatest threat to the oceans and our world: climate change.

HP, Lenovo and Dell penalised for breaking green IT promises

We're giving HP, Lenovo and Dell a penalty point in our updated Guide to Greener Electronics, for breaking their toxic phase-out promises. The PC manufacturers had promised to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009. Of the five PC market leaders, only Apple and Acer are sticking to their PVC and BFR phase-out commitments.

Greenpeace races to reach disintegrating glacier

Our ship, The Arctic Sunrise is currently heading north along the west coast of Greenland in a race against time. It's destination is the disintegrating Petermann Glacier, but to reach the glacier our ship must pass through the Nares Strait, which could be flooded with dangerous multi-year ice at any moment. A team of independent scientists have joined the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise as it sails to the northeast coast of Greenland at the start of a three month expedition to bear witness to the accelerating polar melt, which threatens to raise sea levels around the world by seven meters. The scientists will continue their work to better understand why the ice is melting so quickly.

Kingsnorth Revisited

Greenpeace activists have boarded a bulk freighter carrying coal to the UK's controversial Kingsnorth power station in Kent. Just after midnight, Greenpeace volunteers intercepted the freighter using rigid inflatable speedboats. As the ship headed towards Kingsnorth, nine people succeeded in boarding it and scaled the huge E.ON-branded funnel and the towering foremast.

First fin whales killed in Iceland

The whaling boat Hvalur 9 dragged two massive fin whales up to the ancient whaling station ramp at Hvalförður in the early hours. If it were not for Iceland’s midnight sun the whalers would have been sneaking in under the cover of the night – a scene befitting the shameful hunt that can only do untold damage to Iceland’s reputation.

Greenpeace – Yes Men spoof newspaper declares climate deal

Readers of a free copy of the International Herald Tribune in Brussels today may have done a double take when they saw headlines like “Markets Soar on News of Copenhagen Climate Deal” and “Atmosphere Named World Heritage Site.” That’s because the newspaper, datelined six months into the future, was brought to them by Greenpeace and the Yes Men.

Amazon destruction not a good look for anyone

Just two weeks after our expose, ‘Slaughtering the Amazon’, showed how the Brazilian cattle industry is decimating the Amazon rainforest, we are seeing a stampede as companies and the World Bank start to sever their links with the slaughterhouses and farms involved.

Climate challenge even greater after UN meeting in Bonn

As another round of Bonn climate talks limps to a close, and the UN Climate Summit to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December this year draws closer and closer, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at the progress that’s been made so far…

New leadership at Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International will soon have a new leader. Kumi Naidoo will take up the role of International Executive Director on the first of November 2009, when Gerd Leipold steps down after nine years as our activist-in-chief.

Greenpeace t-shirts in a Japanese whaling town

A new exhibit in Aomori, Japan, gives a glimpse of Greenpeace history through one of our iconic communication tools: the T-shirt.

Polish Prime Minister takes step towards EU leadership at UN Climate Summit

You asked and Poland answered. More than 16,000 of you have taken action and demanded that world leaders personally attend the UN Climate Summit in December. Today, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk became the first Head of State to respond directly to our call for world leaders to attend the meeting in Copenhagen by agreeing to attend the summit himself.

A Time Comes: What it means to take action

The six Greenpeace activists who shut down a coal power station last year made history when a UK jury agreed that they were acting to safeguard property from the impacts of climate change. A new documentary takes you behind the scenes of that action, and into the heart of what Greenpeace and non-violent direct action is all about.

Major brands implicated in Amazon destruction

Just as protecting the world’s forests is rapidly becoming a recognized necessity for fighting climate change, we have discovered that major fashion, food and sports brand names are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.

The campaign that launched 1000 geeks

If saving our climate was a game of poker and all the various stakeholders - our heads of state, the energy industry, environmentalists, etc - were players, there would be one player at the table who hasn't yet shown their cards. The hold-out in this particular game is the Information Technology (IT) Industry, a player who is sitting on a lot of chips in a high stakes game, despite holding a winning hand.

Beam me up Sunny!

Solar power is for wimps. You'd be forgiven if that was the impression you had, given that it's been the (usually) implicit message coming from the oil and coal industries for decades now. But a new Greenpeace report considers the potential for Concentrating Solar Power, the energy brute that can generate temperatures of 1000 degrees celcius, enough to melt steel.

Mr. Potato Head goes organic

Giant potatoes have been spotted riding bikes in the Dutch countryside and through the middle of busy cities in the Netherlands! This phenomenon has coincided with a nation-wide cycling celebration of organic farming.

Democrats pass bogus climate bill

Greenpeace is calling for renewed leadership from President Obama and Congress following the release of the drastically weakened Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill today.

Justice for the Tokyo Two - justice for whales, coming our way?

Justice is starting to go the Tokyo Two way: A court in Aomori, Japan, has delivered a series of setbacks to the prosecution in the trial of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki (the activists known as the Tokyo Two) - and the Japanese government's attempts to cover up an embezzlement scandal within the whaling industry.

US climate bill weakens

A piece of legislation that started out as a real opportunity for the US to combat climate change has been co-opted by special interests and now threatens to do more harm than good. The Waxman- Markey bill is set to go before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday and could remove the ability of the US to commit to real action on climate change at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December. According to reports, the 600-page draft bill on energy and climate originally aimed at providing solutions to climate change - including a plan to cap and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the US - has become significantly weaker over the past week and is no longer strong enough to help the US do its part to combat climate change.

Can Statoil wash its hands of the Tar Sands?

The largest industrial project in the world. The largest capital investment in history. The world’s second largest oil field. The Canadian Tar Sands show just how desperate the industry is to feed its carbon habit. Now, thanks to a Greenpeace campaign investors are starting to question the wisdom paying for a project which will destroy an area of forest the size of England, then poison the ground condemn the world to runaway climate change.