Izmir, Turkey, 11 September 2009 – Greenpeace activists on board the Rainbow Warrior today demanded immediate action to protect the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna from commercial extinction by deploying buoys marked ‘Crime Scene’ around cages holding bluefin tuna being fattened up for harvesting and then sold for export. Two swimmers entered the water around the [...]

Investment driving Amazon destruction and fuelling climate change Sao Paulo, Brazil, 12 June 2009 – The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, has withdrawn a USD 90 million loan to Brazil’s cattle giant Bertin. The loan was used for the company to further expand into the Amazon region, which [...]

  Greenpeace calls on world leaders to act on climate change and save the Indian Monsoon   Mumbai, India, 4 June, 2009:  The Indian monsoon – the lifeline of the subcontinent – will be significantly affected by climate change, according to a Greenpeace report released on the eve of World Environment Day. As negotiators in [...]

Neste Oil’s plans for global leadership in palm oil diesel will drive massive rainforest destruction and climate change   PORVOO, FINLAND – 12 May, 2009: This morning, 32 Greenpeace activists from Finland and Sweden are demonstrating in a palm oil diesel refinery of Neste Oil in Porvoo, Finland, where they hung a banner with the [...]

AMSTERDAM, INTERNATIONAL – 6 May 2008 – Greenpeace is calling for the construction permit for the Olkiluoto European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Finland – the world’s largest prototype nuclear reactor – to be cancelled, following revelations of severe problems in the design of its electronic safety control systems.   The call comes after a Finnish [...]

Inspiring Action video is part of a recruitment drive to get 3 million more people signed up with Greenpeace as climate activists and taking action in an extremely important year for our climate – at the end of which will be the most important conference this century, the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where deals [...]

Shimonoseki, Japan, April 14, 2009: Greenpeace today met the returning Japanese whaling fleet factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, with placards reading “Southern Ocean Whaling: Cover-ups, lies, 1.2 billion yen in taxes”. The environmental organisation also sought to document the offloading of the ships cargo of whale meat, the by-product of the so-called scientific hunt in [...]