As if we need any more reasons to kick to coal habit, a report reveals that coal is costing the global economy $717 billion a year in devastating social and environmental impacts.

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:27:13 GMT

Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) forests have a vital role to play in stopping dangerous climate change and could earn billions of dollars from carbon funding. However, a new Greenpeace report questions whether PNG is fit to play the carbon game.

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:34:04 GMT

The world is just a year away from a critical deadline - to agree a plan to avoid catastrophic climate change. Help us keep watch.

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace today launched the Canola edition of the True Food Guide for GE (genetically engineered) free shopping (link to TFG) at Alex Herbert’s restaurant, Bird Cow Fish in Sydney. We were joined by Australian cooking icon Margaret Fulton and Carolyn Creswell of Carman’s Fine Foods.

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:10:11 GMT

Greenpeace has exposed the Japanese whaling fleet’s attempt to slip out of port unannounced. At around 2pm Tokyo time, the fleet departed from Innoshima port with all reports suggesting a direct route to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Make change happen – Walk Against Warming this weekend.

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:27:00 GMT

In the latest stage of the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour around south-east Asia, activists have arrived in Dumai, Indonesia to block a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe.

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In tough economic times, voters back candidate who favors big action on climate, energy.

Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Despite the moratorium on commercial whaling, the Japanese government continues to send a fleet of ships to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary to kill over a thousand whales. Each season, the fleet departs for the Sanctuary and more whales needlessly die.

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace International has released its blueprint for a renewable energy future that would save the global economy US$18.7 trillion (AU$28.5 trillion) by 2030 and, if we act now, could yet save the planet from runaway climate change.

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Giving cash handouts to coal power generators under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is like ‘paying someone to barbeque your cat’, according to a spoof kids music video-clip launched across the internet by Greenpeace today.

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Eight leading scientists have endorsed Greenpeace’s new report critiquing the regulation of genetically engineered (GE) food in Australia.

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:08:09 GMT

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:03:08 GMT

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:59:47 GMT

We're now on the Indonesian leg of the Forests for Climate ship tour, to shine the spotlight on the rampant destruction of the Paradise Forests.

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Prime Minister Rudd has pledged around $1.2 billion dollars to polluting coal companies. It’s his way of saying sorry for the emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Using maps, we have documented the impacts of logging on forest communities and the climate.

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ninety per cent of Australians want all genetically modified (GM) products labelled, according to a recent Newspoll. Further, the majority of Australians are less likely to buy food they know contains GM ingredients.

Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It has been a year since governments in Bali pledged to nail down an agreement to save the climate by December 2009. That means they have one year left to agree on how to stop the climate crisis. This year’s UN meeting on Climate Change has just started in Poznan, Poland and we think it is about time for government leaders to stop the talking, get serious and start real negotiations.

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Our activists have delivered a huge pile of coal to the doorstep of a hotel in Warsaw where coal companies and heavy industry together with at least 20 industry ministers are meeting just days ahead of the UN climate negotiations in Poland. The Polish government appears to be gathering forces to protect coal users and suppliers, in opposition to the EU climate package being discussed next week.

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Shameless. Disastrous. The international body responsible for "managing" what's left of the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks has ignored scientific advice, the demands of Greenpeace supporters around the world, and the pleas of the governments of Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Norway, South Africa and the United States to save the fishery from collapse.

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:06 GMT

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:21:04 GMT

The latest edition of our Guide to Greener Electronics has revealed that very few firms are showing true climate leadership. Despite many green claims, major companies like Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and Apple are failing to support the necessary levels of global cuts in emissions and make the absolute cuts in their own emissions that are required to tackle climate change.

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

European Environment Ministers were asked to agree on strict controls ensuring food safety today, by our activists in Brussels. A giant banner displaying a ‘scary’ genetically modified corn plant and bearing the slogan Stop GMOs’ was dropped from a building on Schuman square (at the quarter of European Commission and European Council buildings) as dozens GM maize caricatures were laid around the street - highlighting the risks posed by genetically modified organisms such as maize.

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Peaceful protesters from the Greenpeace Climate Rescue Station were attacked by mine workers when they entered the vast Jóźwin IIB open pit mine. As the activists prepared to paint a huge "Stop" sign next to a giant excavator they were assaulted and prevented from carrying out their peaceful protest. A journalist accompanying the activists was beaten. Local people are also against the expansion of this mine, because it threatens their homes and livelihoods.

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Sixty activists are at the Garoña nuclear power plant in Spain to demand that the Spanish government make good on their commitment to start phasing out nuclear power plants, starting now with the immediate closure of the Garoña power plant.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Our activists marked the departure of Japan's whaling fleet from the port of Innoshima with banners declaring "Whaling on Trial." The fleet had attempted to leave for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary unnoticed, by canceling their traditional high-profile departure ceremony in Shimonoseki. Instead, the factory ship Nisshin Maru left with no fanfare, waved off only by the crew's families and whaling officials.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

What does it take to get the governments responsible for the imminent collapse of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery to wake up and do something? What about a mock "Pirates of the Mediterranean" poster of the responsible minsters in Pirate gear in the Economist? How about more than 10,000 emails? OK, how about several tonnes of dead tuna fish heads dumped on the doorstep of the French Fisheries minister?

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Rainbow Warrior has been impounded and the captain arrested after it was boarded by the police three times over the weekend. The ship was part of a protest against the new coal fired power station that E.ON is building next to their existing climate changing coal plant. The Rainbow Warrior together with one of our other ships - the Beluga II - were blocking the coal port of Rotterdam to stop any coal ships from entering. After spending the day surrounded by police boats they were eventually forced to leave the coal port in the evening.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Our team at the Climate Rescue Station in Poland joined 400 local people who live close to an open coal mine for a mass demonstration. Seven mayors from villages and towns, which are facing destruction because of the mine's expansion, also attended.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:07:26 GMT

Supported by the Rainbow Warrior, a hundred Greenpeace activists have occupied the construction site of the new E.ON coal fired power plant on the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. The activists have halted construction and intend to stay until the coal plant is cancelled. The activists locked themselves onto strategic points at the site and occupied the building cranes.

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace Africa opened its first office in Johannesburg today, announcing a long-term commitment to building a strong presence in Africa dedicated to tackling the most urgent environmental problems facing the continent - climate change, deforestation and overfishing.

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Activists have blocked the operations of another tanker bound for Europe stocked with crude palm oil. The tanker, the Isola Corallo, was supposed to load up today but activists onboard the Esperanza moved into its place alongside the harbour and prevented the Corallo from taking on palm oil.

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Good news for the whales comes in threes. And then you get a dollop of extra. Asahi Shinbum, one of Japan's biggest newspapers, reports a victory in the whale wars: there will be a 20 percent reduction in the number of whales targeted in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary hunt this year -- the first reduction since 1987.

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thirty of our activists have shut down a giant excavator in one of the largest lignite mines in the Czech Republic. We're calling on the Czech Republic to close this mine by 2012, commit to progressively decreasing their carbon emissions and to play a constructive role in the creation of effective climate policy.

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

As the whaling fleet prepares to depart Japan, evidence is mounting of an industry in terminal disarray, as new revelations of financial and image problems add to the woes of the scandal-plagued industry.

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT