We expected 20,000. We HOPED for 30,000. We got nearly double that. In the biggest protest march in living memory, 50,000 turned out on Queen Street today to march against the Government’s mining plans.

Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The newest version of our Information Technology (IT) industry climate ranking reveals how a few global tech companies are taking the lead. They're demonstrating the potential of IT solutions to help reduce energy wastage and greenhouse gas emissions, while others seem unable to decide if IT climate solutions are a significant business opportunity or a mere marketing strategy.

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:58:33 GMT

A proposal to keep the dying whaling industries on life support has just been unveiled by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) -- instead of a concrete plan to safeguard whales.

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A GE-free future is getting closer: half a million signatures have been collected asking the EU commission to stop GE crops from being grown in Europe. With 1 million signatures this petition will become an official request!

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Thirty activist 'orang-utans' greeted shareholders as they arrived for Nestle's Annual General Meeting today asking them to give Indonesia's rainforests a break and stop profiting from destroying rainforest, threatening biodiversity and accelerating climate change.

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:40:46 GMT

The UK has created the world’s largest marine reserve, covering some quarter of a million square miles of ocean around the Chagos Archipelago -- one of the most pristine and biologically diverse coral ecosystems on the planet. But as much as we'd like to break open the champagne and tell our oceans campaigners to go home - we're a long way of reaching our goal for defending our oceans.

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace activists have been on the scene from railway to cargo ships this week attempting to stop the shipment of nuclear waste from France to Russia. Despite attempts from the nuclear industry to silence us, our activists continue to fight the transport of nuclear waste.

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

At around 4:30 this morning, our activists took action against commercial whaling and trade in whale meat by blocking a container ship with fin whale meat onboard bound for Japan from Iceland.

Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

On the eve of the launch of the iPad, our latest report warns that the growth of internet computing could come with a huge jump in greenhouse gas emissions. We follow the data streams back to the data centres providing a cautionary tale about how the boom could see internet servers become a major cause of climate change. But it doesn't have to be that way, the great innovators of the digital age can and should be leaders in promoting an energy revolution.

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:23:41 GMT

Billionaire oilman David Koch likes to joke that Koch Industries, is “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” But the nearly $50 million that he and his brother Charles have quietly funneled to climate-denial front groups that are working to delay global warming action is no joking matter.

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace activists unfurled banners of every size today outside the offices of Dell in Bangalore, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen, just as Dell executives meet to discuss a roadmap to finally remove the worst toxic chemicals from their electronics. The Message around the world to Dell's founder and CEO: "Michael Dell: Clean Up Toxics!"

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chemical contamination is threatening our lakes and rivers, with severe impacts on human life and biodiversity. Activists around the world marked World Water Day 2010 by highlighting the growing presence of industrial hazardous chemicals in the world’s water supplies.

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:25:57 GMT

Need a break? Before you have one with a Kit Kat watch – ‘Have a break?’ We need your help to get the rainforests a break and to help you spread the word we’ve launched this video spoof. It exposes the true cost behind having a break the Kit Kat way: you could be taking a bite out of Indonesia’s precious rainforests, thanks to Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, using palm oil that comes from forest destruction.

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

It’s official: the Czech government doesn’t care about the problems it’s causing in small island states like the Pacific, as long as its dirty power supply is safe. Today, the government decided to extend the life of the country’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, despite objections from one of the countries directly threatened by this decision.

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Governments have completely and utterly failed bluefin tuna at CITES today - the vote for a listing in Appendix I was rejected after lobbying from some of the species' largest consumers.

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:51:21 GMT

This week our activists, Junichi and Toru, spent two very long and intense days in court, defending the honourable actions they took to expose the corruption within Japan's whaling industry. As the prosecution fumbled its desperate attempt to cast the 'Tokyo Two' as criminals, it became obvious that whaling really is on trial in Aomori.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Swiss Parliament has just extended its ban on the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants for three more years. Originally enacted in 2005, Switzerland will stay GE-free until at least 2013.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Tokyo Two trial continued today as a former whaler took to the stand and cast serious doubt on the veracity of the official investigation into our allegations of institutional embezzlement within Japan's whaling industry. He further revealed how the whaling crew kept for themselves the meat from baby whales caught in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

So the world is finally waking up to the fact that the Bluefin tuna is in crisis. That's nice. But decades of overfishing have pushed this majestic fish to the brink of extinction, which is not the point at which we should start thinking about conservation. The situation is so extreme that an international trade ban is now its only hope of survival.

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Samsung still uses PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in all its products, except in a few models of mobile phone, MP3 players and some components, despite many promises to clean up. That's why our activists stuck huge stickers on the Korean electronic giant's Benelux headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday stating "Samsung = broken promises".

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT