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Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as U.S exploration vessel enters port
RAROTONGA, Wednesday 22 October 2025 — Cook Islanders holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana” have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the…
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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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50 years of campaigning for a world free from war and nuclear weapons
Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by a group of brave activists opposing a US nuclear weapons test on Amchitka Island, Alaska. Since then, Greenpeace has become a global leader in campaigns against the dumping of nuclear waste into our planet’s oceans, documenting these environmental crimes for the world to see.
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Deep Sea Mining and the Pacific: A Fragile Victory at the Pacific Islands Forum
Between 3–12 September 2025, I joined my Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) colleagues Raeed Ali, Shiva Gounden, and Consultant Lagi Toribau in Honiara for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting.…
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Nauru ‘peddling dangerous fallacies’ at UNGA: Greenpeace
FIJI/SYDNEY – Friday, 26 September 2025 — In response to Nauru’s statement on deep sea mining at the UN General Assembly, where it falsely claimed deep sea minerals were ‘essential’…
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‘Choose action’: Pacific civil society calls on Albanese to deliver strong climate plan and reject North West Shelf extension
HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, Thursday 11 September 2025 — At the Pacific Islands Forum, Greenpeace Australia Pacific and the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) have called for climate accountability from…
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Kiribati Chair appointment chance to ‘seek and sow solidarity’ against deep sea mining: Greenpeace
HONIARA – Monday, 8 September 2025 — In response to the Republic of Kiribati being appointed the Chairmanship of the Small Island States (SIS) Leaders Meeting at the Pacific Islands…
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Trump wants to mine the deep sea – what just happened?
The very idea of deep sea mining is bad enough to have mobilised millions of people against this new industry. Sending tank sized machines kilometres below the surface of the…
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Deep sea talks end as govts. urged to act on moratorium
Greenpeace: Governments have yet to rise to the moment and vote in favour of a moratorium on deep sea mining
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World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities
SYDNEY, Thursday, 24 July 2025 – The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight,…