The big news in Iceland this week has been the election of a new Government which has previously said it will look at ending commercial whaling.
The world’s first openly gay leader, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir will lead a coalition government formed from Social Democratic Alliance and the Left Green Movement.
Just before he was forced to […]
Despite a Senate motion and against the wishes of many farmers, councils and others, the West Australian Government is about to betray its moratorium on genetically engineered (GE) crops.
The WA Senate this month passed a motion to disallow field trials (the stage before commercial growing) of GE canola. To date, WA has remained GE-free, […]
Our international office has cooked up a truly inspiring video to celebrate Earth Day – 22 April. Along with Greenpeace supporters around the world, you can help make it today’s Number 1 on YouTube.
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We’ve had awesome news in the office! Our Origami Whales interactive website is finalist in the 2009 Webby Awards – the equivalent of the Oscars for the web!
The petition site was launched almost a year ago, asking the Japanese Prime Minister to cease whaling in the Southern Ocean. Users can pimp their own origami […]
Greenpeace is the only international environmental organisation on the ground fighting whaling in Japan.
Here is a fantastic video that reveals the investigative work by Greenpeace Japan into the scandal of whale meat embezzlement. Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were part of the team that exposed the scandal.
Meanwhile, Junichi and Toru, who were arrested […]
Our German colleagues have good cause to break out the Riesling this week. Germany has become the sixth European Union country to ban the cultivation of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) corn — MON810.
“I have come to the conclusion that there are legitimate grounds to accept that genetically modified corn from the MON810 strain constitutes […]
As if you needed more evidence that the climate’s on thin ice. In Antarctica, an ice bridge that was holding the vast Wilkins Ice Shelf to the continent has collapsed. It’s likely Wilkins will soon follow.
The ice bridge has been retreating since the late 1990s. In 1950, it was almost 100km wide but, just before […]
We’ve been celebrating an enormous win over the past few days. More than one-third of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest — the largest intact area of temperate rainforest in the world — is officially and legally off-limits to logging. It’s an area half the size of Switzerland.
One person who’s especially jubillant at the news is […]
With the G20 meeting getting under way in London, the many faces of protest have been revealed. Over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen a range of tactics and messages from police and protesters. A call for justice and equality, for peace and safety has been issued to the rulers locked in their meetings.
I’ve been […]