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From Palau to Türkiye: Powering up for climate and ocean justice
Pacific Island countries have long been at the forefront of climate, ocean and biodiversity protection. Last week our team headed to Palau, to meet with community and government leaders and to plan for another big year ahead. Here's some of what we explored together, and what's in store over the coming months.
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Cook Islands deep sea mining nodule extraction has high risk of economic losses – independent study
Amsterdam, Netherlands – The economic potential of seabed polymetallic nodules in the South Pacific’s Cook Islands has been overstated, according to a new independent study commissioned by Greenpeace International.[1] Once…
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The “COP of truth” and making big polluters pay
COP30 has opened with fierce calls for both stronger action and some of the starkest warnings yet for the urgency of our climate crisis.
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All eyes on Brazil: What to expect at COP30
We’ll be bringing you regular updates from the ground as the talks unfold – the wins, the losses, and the headaches – and will be putting the spotlight on Australia…
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The Ocean We’re Still Discovering
For us in the Pacific, the ocean is more than a body of water. It is our identity, our culture, our history. Our ancestors read the seas to navigate, to survive, to connect communities scattered across islands. Discoveries like this Dumbo octopus awaken something deeper in me, — a sense that the ocean is alive…
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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’…