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Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice.

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

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Greenpeace - Latest News [Page 75]

Rena Spill: PM John Key is not fooling anyone

Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 9:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

PM John Key is not fooling anyone that Rena spill and deep sea oil risks are not related More >>

Greenpeace statement on Rena oil spill

Friday, 7 October 2011, 4:02 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 7th October, 2011. Greenpeace today expressed extreme concern about the ongoing oil spill from the stricken vessel Rena. More >>

Barbie Drops Rainforest Packaging

Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10:43 am | Greenpeace

Toy giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, announced today that it will stop buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global campaign by Greenpeace. More >>

Commission rules against dirty tar sands fuel

Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 4:16 pm | Greenpeace

Reacting to the news that the European Commission is proposing a de facto ban on imports of dirty fuels extracted from tar sands, Greenpeace EU transport policy adviser Franziska Achterberg said: “Today’s move by the Commission is good news. Tar ... More >>

Attempt to undo Pacific conservation measures at tuna summit

Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 1:32 pm | Greenpeace

Greenpeace has expressed its disappointment with the major fishing nations active in the Western and Central Pacific, the world’s largest tuna fishing ground, for their attempts to unravel current conservation and management measures of the region’s ... More >>

Greenpeace On Cairn Energy's Failure to Find Arctic Oil

Monday, 3 October 2011, 9:27 am | Greenpeace

Amsterdam, 28th September 2011 --Reacting to the news that Cairn Energy’s oil drilling has once again come up dry off Greenland’s Arctic coast (1), Greenpeace Campaigner Ben Ayliff said: More >>

Greenpeace to legally challenge deep sea oil permits

Monday, 19 September 2011, 11:29 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 19 September 2011: Greenpeace and te Whānau-ā-Apanui today filed a judicial review challenging the Government’s decision to issue Brazilian oil giant Petrobras a permit for deep sea oil exploration off the East Cape. More >>

Second Biggest Arctic Sea Ice Thaw Since Records Began

Friday, 16 September 2011, 5:11 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 16 September 2011: This summer’s Arctic sea ice melt has been confirmed overnight (NZ time) as having been the second largest in recorded history, following 2007’s record melt (1). More >>

Second biggest Arctic sea ice thaw since records began

Friday, 16 September 2011, 1:13 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand

This summer’s Arctic sea ice melt has been confirmed overnight (NZ time) as having been the second largest in recorded history, following 2007’s record melt. More >>

Greenpeace call for marine reserves to protect Pacific tuna

Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 11:18 am | Greenpeace

Activists from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza today called for Pacific Ocean marine reserves to help protect tuna stocks by protesting alongside and aboard a Taiwanese tuna boat fishing in international waters between French Polynesia and the Cook Islands. More >>

EU Court Bans Honey Contaminated by GeneticallyModified Crop

Thursday, 8 September 2011, 1:37 pm | Greenpeace

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) today banned beekeepers from selling honey contaminated by a genetically modified (GM) crop. The court ruled that honey from a German beekeeper could not be sold after being contaminated by pollen from ... More >>

Giant melting da Vinci artwork recreated on Arctic sea ice

Thursday, 8 September 2011, 12:00 pm | Greenpeace

A giant version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch ‘Vitruvian Man,’ depicted melting from the sea ice into the Arctic Ocean, has been constructed just 800 kilometres from the North Pole, as a call for urgent action on climate change. More >>

Giant melting da Vinci artwork recreated on Arctic sea ice

Thursday, 8 September 2011, 11:25 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 8/9/11: A giant version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch ‘Vitruvian Man,’ depicted melting from the sea ice into the Arctic Ocean, has been constructed just 800 kilometres from the North Pole, as a call for urgent action on climate change. More >>

This northern summer has seen the Arctic shrink massively

Monday, 5 September 2011, 5:45 pm | Greenpeace

The day on which it may be at its smallest point since records began is around a week or so away. The retreat is now on a par with the thaw that preceded the current record low - set in 2007. This is a clear sign that the world is approaching a point ... More >>

Cottonsoft smokescreen fools nobody

Friday, 2 September 2011, 3:47 pm | Greenpeace

It's been ten days since we first revealed that Cottonsoft toilet paper was linked to deforestation Indonesia and it's been busy ever since. The case against Cottonsoft is resounding, but instead of doing the right thing they've just tried to muddy the ... More >>

Adidas Join Nike and Puma in Cleaning Up Their Supply Chain

Thursday, 1 September 2011, 12:48 pm | Greenpeace

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Greenpeace responds to an open letter from Sealord

Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 10:05 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Auckland 30.8.11: Greenpeace stand behind all of the statements we have made regarding Sealord’s tuna sourcing. We believe that the public has the right to know the ecological impact of the food they purchase, in order to make informed choices at the checkout. ... More >>