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From Harpoons to Hope – The Return of Humpback Whales
Over the years, I’ve seen the difference Greenpeace has made in the world. Few stories capture that legacy more powerfully than the return of the humpback whales.
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The Rainbow Warrior returns to the Republic of the Marshall Islands
This year, the Rainbow Warrior sailed back to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, forty years after answering a call for help from the people of Rongelap, a community displaced by the fallout of U.S. nuclear testing. In 1985, when their pleas for relocation were ignored by those whose job it was to help, they…
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The past that shaped us, the future we fight for
Forty years ago — the year I was born — a shocking act of violence sent ripples across the world. In a cowardly attempt to silence peaceful protest, my own birth country, France, planted explosives on the Rainbow Warrior as she lay docked in Auckland Harbour.
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Peace through action
Whoever you are, wherever you stand, whatever you do, there’s a part that each of us can play to address this moment of planetary crisis.
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Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior a reminder of the power of persistence and resistance, hope and action, to change the world
Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday 10 July 2025 — 40 years ago today, Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French secret service agents in an…
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Tracing radiation through the Marshall Islands – Reflections from a Greenpeace nuclear specialist
We’ve visited ground zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall…
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Meet 6 Marshallese women activists who are changing the world
Across cultures and religions, there are various stories of creation and beginnings. In the Marshall Islands, creation began with three sisters: Liwatuonmour, Lidepdepju, and Lijileijet. Traveling on a canoe from the…
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“We are not just welcoming you as allies, but as family” – Why The Rainbow Warrior is back to Marshall Islands 40 years later
Family isn’t just about blood—it’s about standing together through the toughest of times.
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‘Warriors for Justice’: On anniversary of Castle Bravo nuclear test, Greenpeace calls for justice and reparations from United States
SYDNEY/MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, Saturday 1 March 2025 — 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed across the Marshall Islands by the United States, Greenpeace…
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More powerful than Hiroshima: how the largest nuclear weapons test ever built a nation of leaders in the Marshall Islands.
71 years ago, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a nuclear bomb with the codename “Castle Bravo”, exploded with an energy of 15 megatons. The mushroom cloud reached 40…
