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Update from COP30: Powering up against fossil fuels
COP30 may be about to kickstart a new plan to phase out fossil fuels, with Australia lined up to finish the job next year.
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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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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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Maxine Godley
In 1985, the shock of the sinking of the Greenpeace flagship 'Rainbow Warrior' in Auckland, with loss of life. The ship was proceeding to protest more Mururoa nuclear testing. But I watched and I learned, "You can't sink a rainbow."
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The alchemy of grief and love
How do you hold on to hope, to the possibility of change for the common good, in the face of overwhelming grief or anger?
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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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Greenpeace activists rebrand NZ bottom trawler “ocean killer” at sea
Greenpeace Aotearoa activists have confronted a bottom trawler on the Chatham Rise, rebranding it “ocean killer”, after bearing witness to it hauling in a net straining with marine life.
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A defining moment in history: 40 years ago the Marshall Islands fought to protect their future… and defied the US
In May 1985, Greenpeace took on a mission unlike anything they had done before - to mass relocate the people of Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands, whose ancestral home was no longer safe as a result of the US government’s nuclear testing in the region.
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Greenpeace activists disrupt industrial fishing operation ahead of UN Ocean Conference
PACIFIC OCEAN, Thursday, 5 June 2025 – Greenpeace activists have disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific Ocean, seizing almost 20 kilometers of fishing gear and freeing…