Greenpeace urges world leaders to act on climate change

America Honors Leaders

Three Greenpeace climbers have hung a banner on the face of Mount Rushmore to issue a challenge to President Obama: "America honors leaders, not politicians: Stop Global Warming.” The action is part of a global day of action staged by Greenpeace to urge world leaders, who are currently attending a G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy, to take the actions necessary to avert runaway climate change.

Greenpeace Urges Trader Joe's to Urging Company to Stop Selling Endangered Fish, Help Save Oceans

HP, Lenovo and Dell penalized for breaking green IT promises

We're giving HP, Lenovo and Dell a penalty point in our updated Guide to Greener Electronics, for breaking their toxic phase-out promises. The PC manufacturers had promised to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009. Of the five PC market leaders, only Apple and Acer are sticking to their PVC and BFR phase-out commitments.

Progress is seen in the latest Greenpeace Supermarket Seafood Scorecard

In the third edition of Greenpeace's seafood sustainability scorecard – Carting Away the Oceans – Greenpeace is seeing signs of progress in the supermarket industry. Many leading grocery store chains have begun increasing the sustainability of their seafood operations.

Greenpeace races to reach disintegrating glacier

Our ship, The Arctic Sunrise is currently heading north along the west coast of Greenland in a race against time. It's destination is the disintegrating Petermann Glacier, but to reach the glacier our ship must pass through the Nares Strait, which could be flooded with dangerous multi-year ice at any moment. A team of independent scientists have joined the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise as it sails to the northeast coast of Greenland at the start of a three month expedition to bear witness to the accelerating polar melt, which threatens to raise sea levels around the world by seven meters. The scientists will continue their work to better understand why the ice is melting so quickly.

First fin whales killed in Iceland

The whaling boat Hvalur 9 dragged two massive fin whales up to the ancient whaling station ramp at Hvalförður in the early hours. If it were not for Iceland’s midnight sun the whalers would have been sneaking in under the cover of the night – a scene befitting the shameful hunt that can only do untold damage to Iceland’s reputation.

Climate change hurts China’s poor

Climate change will hurt us all but it’s already hurting China’s poor, a new report out by Greenpeace and Oxfam reveals.

Greenpeace t-shirts in a Japanese whaling town

A new exhibit in Aomori, Japan, gives a glimpse of Greenpeace history through one of our iconic communication tools: the T-shirt.

New leadership at Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International will soon have a new leader. Kumi Naidoo will take up the role of International Executive Director on the first of November 2009, when Gerd Leipold steps down after nine years as our activist-in-chief.

How should we protect biodiversity and our climate?

While biological diversity (the diversity of plant and animal species and ecosystems) is the basis of human life on Earth, the importance of biodiversity in the fight against climate change often goes unrecognized.

A Time Comes: What it means to take action

From our early beginnings as a small but determined group of individuals on an epic voyage to stop nuclear testing in the Pacific to our latest confrontations of environmental and social injustice - our activists have had tremendous courage often in the face of serious personal consequences.

Top name brands implicated in Amazon destruction

The new Greenpeace report, “Slaughtering the Amazon,” is the product of a three-year investigation into Brazil’s cattle industry, which is the country’s chief source of CO2 emissions and the single largest driver of deforestation anywhere in the world. Our investigation exposed the Brazilian government’s complicity in bankrolling deforestation in the Amazon, as well as several top name shoe brands – such as Adidas, Nike, Reebok, and Timberland – whose supply chains are linked to the cattle ranchers who are illegally slaughtering the Amazon.


An aerial view of man-made forest fires intended to clear land for cattle and farming.

Mr. Potato Head goes organic

Giant potatoes have been spotted riding bikes in the Dutch countryside and through the middle of busy cities in the Netherlands! This phenomenon has coincided with a nation-wide cycling celebration of organic farming.

America's Share of the Climate Crisis

Greenpeace has released a new report, “America’s Share of the Climate Crisis: A State-By-State Carbon Footprint,” to highlight the United States’ responsibility for taking the lead to solve global warming in light of its outsized role in creating the problem. Using data from the Carbon Analysis Indicators Tool maintained by the World Resources Institute, the report examines state-by-state carbon dioxide emissions produced by fossil fuel combustion from 1960 to 2005 and compares those emissions to 184 other countries of the world.

Historically, no nation has emitted more global warming pollution than the United States. This places upon the U.S. a moral obligation to lead the global response to the climate crisis.


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The New "Bridge to Nowhere"

Carbon Capture and Sequestration, the fantastical technology that industry lobbyists say will allow us to burn coal with no consequences, is about to get a shot in the arm. The new climate legislation working its way though Congress would allocate tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for CCS – and its flagship project, FutureGen.

Greenpeace: Waxman-Markey climate change bill not strong enough to stop global warming

Greenpeace is calling for renewed leadership from President Obama and Congress following the release of the drastically weakened Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill today. The American Climate and Energy Security Act (ACES) was already in need of improvement when first released as a discussion draft in March, and has become severely worse as members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee actively worked to weaken the bill on behalf of fossil fuels industries and other corporate polluters.

Justice for the Tokyo Two - justice for whales, coming our way?

Justice is starting to go the Tokyo Two way: A court in Aomori, Japan, has delivered a series of setbacks to the prosecution in the trial of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki (the activists known as the Tokyo Two) - and the Japanese government's attempts to cover up an embezzlement scandal within the whaling industry.

Bush-era regulation gutting protections for Polar Bear becomes Obama-era regulation gutting protections for Polar Bears

Following Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement that he would not rescind the “polar bear special rule,” which guts Endangered Species Act protections for polar bears, Greenpeace conducted a direct communication outside of the Department of the Interior. As a symbol of the damage that his inaction will cause, two activists solemnly walked a mock polar bear into the pool in front of the DOI building and left it to drown.

The suicidal tendencies of the Turkish tuna fishery

The Turkish government has set its own catch limit for the endangered Mediterranean bluefin tuna - in total disregard for internationally agreed quotas.