Articles by Greenpeace
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CRUDE: Wentworth Community vs Big Oil
Greenpeace International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – This documentary details the shocking knock-on impact of air pollution caused by big oil in the South African township Wentworth – including chronic poverty, gender-based violence and epigenetic changes which make community members prone to certain illnesses.
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1st Trimester 2023: Shell Profited US$ 9.6 BILLION or US$ 106 MILLION/day
Lisa Göldner | Greenpeace Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Shell is raking it in whilst linked to unlawful activities and extreme weather wreaks havoc across the world. They’re literally profiting off people’s pain. Please can you sign our urgent petition calling on fossil criminals like Shell to stop their climate-wrecking activities and pay for the damage they have caused?
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Media Briefing: U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe
Tim Donaghy | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the US terror attack on the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline. In 2022, shipments of liquefied natural gas from the US were redirected to Europe to replace Nordstream 2 and secure supplies for the European winter. The industry has also secured financing and begun construction on numerous LNG terminals on both sides of the Atlantic designed to operate permanently.
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Plastic Recycling Is a Dead-End Street: Year After Year It Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases
Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. Paper, cardboard, and metals are all recycled at a high rate, but plastic continues to be trash.
→ read full articleThe Great Carbon Capture Scam
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – We know that Big Oil hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum industry devised a plan to swindle money from the public purse by pretending to address the climate issue while using subsidies to increase oil production. One might say their scam was a stroke of genius. How it works.
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Brazil Is Up in Flames—Here’s Why
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – It is no accident that there are fires all across Brazil. The world is looking in horror for the second straight year as historic blazes ravage the world’s largest tropical forest. All the while, instead of fighting the fires, the Brazilian government fans the flames by emboldening those who are setting the fires to expand their agribusiness.
→ read full articleEven the Bermuda Triangle Has a Plastic Problem
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
30 Jul 2019 – Sargasso Sea: Home to Sea Turtles, the Bermuda Triangle and… Way Too Much Plastic
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Failed Economics
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2019
17 Mar 2019 – The super-elites, the 2,208 billionaires — those who attend Global Economic Summits, own banks, buy off governments, pollute with impunity, and hold political influence in virtually every nation in the world — comprise not the “1%” but only 28-millionths of a percent of the human population. According to Forbes magazine, the average billionaire makes about $635 million dollars every year, $12 million per week, even when they’re on holiday.
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There’s Something Rotten with the Meat Industry
Nora Holzman and Katarzyna Jagiełło | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Feb 2019
It was an unimaginable scene: diseased cows dragged to slaughter in excruciating pain, then sold without veterinary control around Europe and landing on the plates of many consumers.
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What a Green and Peaceful Future Could Look Like
Paula Tejón Carbajal | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
19 Jul 2018 – We’re experiencing a deep systemic disconnection: an ecological, social and spiritual cultural divide. There’s a discernible disconnect between the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet Earth; between private ownership and the best societal use of property; between GDP and well-being. “We cannot solve problems with the same kind of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein
→ read full articleCelebrate World Meat Free Week – For a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You!
Dawn Bickett | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
This week [11-17 Jun] is World Meat Free Week!
Eat Less Meat, More Plants, Tell Your Friends
China Has Already More Than Doubled Its 2020 Solar Power Target
Jing Yan and Lauri Myllyvirta | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2017
25 Aug 2017 – China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
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Yuko Yoneda | Greenpeace Japan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2017
On 7 July, the United Nations adopted the “Nuclear Weapons Treaty” with an overwhelming majority. To our disappointment, however, Japan did not join the 122 countries, or two-thirds of the United Nations member countries. Japan still remains an outlier, betraying the hopes of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full articleWhy We Leaked Hundreds of Pages of a Secret Trade Deal That Threatens Our Rights and Our Planet
Shira Stanton and Sebastian Bock | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2017
23 Jun 2017 – Behind closed doors and countless documents, details of a proposed deal between two of the world’s largest economies are being kept from us. Until now. Chances are that the planned trade deal between the European Union and Japan has not been on top of your mind. Governments have gone to great lengths to leave their citizens in the dark about a deal that can significantly impact our lives and the world we live in.
→ read full articleEvery Single Piece of Plastic Ever Made Still Exists – Here’s the Story
Diego Gonzaga | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2017
And it’s not just the amount of plastic being produced. Everything related to plastic is damaging the planet, from the impact of extracting the fossil fuels used to produce plastic, to the health effects of the toxins it releases into the environment when it is burned, to the devastating impact on sea life.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Investigation Uncovers Studies Showing Pesticides Pose Serious Harm to Honeybees
Joe Sandler Clarke | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 Sep 2016 – Chemical giants Bayer and Syngenta commissioned private studies which showed that their neonicotinoid pesticides can cause serious harm to bees, a Greenpeace investigation has uncovered.
→ read full articleRadiation Along Fukushima Rivers Up to 200 Times Higher Than Pacific Ocean Seabed
Greenpeace | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
A radiation survey team, supported by the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, conducted underwater survey along the Fukushima coastline from Feb. 21 to March 11 this year, as well collecting samples in river systems. The samples were measured at an independent laboratory in Tokyo.
→ read full article#TTIPleaks: Confidential TTIP Papers Unveil US Position
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Leaked text shows deliberate attempts by the U.S. to undermine EU environment and health protection laws and to change the EU democratic legislative process.
→ read full articleDownload the TTIP Leaks
Greenpeace Netherlands – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty, which is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
→ read full articleTTIP Leaks [for Download]
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2016
Greenpeace Netherlands has released secret TTIP negotiation documents. We have done so to provide much needed transparency and trigger an informed debate on the treaty. This treaty is threatening to have far reaching implications for the environment and the lives of more than 800 million citizens in the EU and US. TTIP is about a huge transfer of power from people to big business.
→ read full articleDam Collapse in Brazil Destroys Towns and Turns River into Muddy Wasteland
Bruno Weis – Greenpeace,
18 Nov 2015
On Thursday, November 5th, two dams holding millions of cubic meters of mining waste gave way – launching one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazilian history. Over 25,000 Olympic swimming pools worth of mud – full of dangerous metals like manganese and mercury – quickly overtook the nearby mining community of Mariana in Minas Gerais state.
→ read full article(Português) Madeira ilegal da Amazônia chega impunemente à Europa
Greenpeace Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nova investigação expõe 26 empresas europeias que estão importando produtos de fornecedor ligado ao comércio de madeira ilegal da Amazônia.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Releases Confidential IAEA Fukushima-Daiichi Accident Report
Justin McKeating – Greenpeace International,
8 Jun 2015
The International Atomic Energy Agency report fails to accurately reflect the scale and consequences of the Fukushima disaster.
→ read full articleWill THIS Spill in California Change Anything?
Preeti Desai – Greenpeace,
25 May 2015
State of Emergency Declared: California Oil Spill Now Estimated at 105,000 Gallons
→ read full articleHow LEGO Got Awesome to #Savethearctic
Ian Duff - Greenpeace,
13 Oct 2014
9 Oct 2014 – Today we got the awesome news: after a three-month campaign supported by more than a million people worldwide, LEGO has announced it will not renew its contract with Arctic destroyer Shell. This is fantastic news for LEGO fans and Arctic defenders everywhere.
→ read full articleBeating Climate Change, either Lead or Get Out of the Way
Arin de Hoog - Greenpeace,
22 Sep 2014
Yesterday [21 Sep 2014], over half a million people in 160 countries across the world marched against climate change. What clearer signal can there be to policy leaders that they need to either lead or get out of the way?
→ read full articleRevisiting Nuclear Industry Failures on Third Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster
Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry is trying its hardest to make us forget by downplaying the impacts of the accident, ignoring the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still not under control and claiming that lessons have been learned. Nothing is further from the truth. So business continues as usual and in many countries the same mistakes are being made that played a role in Fukushima.
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Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Palm oil has a dirty secret: forest destruction. Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and peatlands – some of the most biodiverse regions on the planet – are being destroyed to make way for new palm oil plantations. We don’t have to clear forests for palm oil – solutions exist and some companies are on track to supply clean, responsible palm oil.
→ read full articleDavos: The Shifting Nature of Power and the Shifting Power of Nature
Kumi Naidoo - Greenpeace,
27 Jan 2014
One of the most challenging weeks of my working life starts today [22 Jan 2014]: the week of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Over 2,500 presidents, prime minsters, CEOs, celebrities and academics with a smattering of civil society, will be holed up in a small and posh mountain resort in Switzerland.
→ read full articleWorldwide Honey Bee Collapse: A Lesson in Ecology
Rex Weyler, EcoWatch - Greenpeace,
17 Jun 2013
Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and so forth. The causes of collapse merge and synergize, but we know that humanity is the perpetrator, and that the two most prominent causes appear to be pesticides and habitat loss.
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GreenpeaceVideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Some friends made this video for us for our 40th anniversary… [in 2011]. Funny and to the point.
→ read full articleAccidents at Nuclear Power Plants in India
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2013
India currently has twenty nuclear reactors in operation and their safety record is far from clean.
→ read full articleMedia Statement on the ISAAA GM Crop Lobby 2012 Report
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2012
Wed 8 Feb 2012, Sydney: Greenpeace responded today to a report on the perceived success of genetically modified (GM) crops around the world, which was published by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a bio-tech industry lobby organisation. “Contrary to claims in the report, GM crops remain a global failure with only about 1% of global farmers cultivating GM crops.” said Greenpeace campaigner Éric Darrier.
→ read full articleThe Future We Want? Between Hope and Despair on the Road to the Rio Earth Summit
Daniel Mittler, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2012
The lack of spine is clearest in the last paragraph which calls for voluntary commitments announced at Rio to be stapled together in a “registry/compendium that will serve as an accountability framework.” In other words, there will be no enforcement or control. Your word will be taken at face value and the “accountability framework” will be the act of stapling all voluntary commitments together in one document. An invitation to greenwash, if there ever was one.
→ read full articleLiving With Fukushima City’s Radiation Problem
Ike Teuling, Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2011
Overall, the radiation levels in these neighbourhoods are so high that people receive an exposure to radiation just from external sources that is ten times the annual allowed dose. How high their internal exposure is from eating contaminated food and inhaling or ingesting radioactive particles remains unknown, since no government program is keeping track of this.
→ read full articleHerbicide Tolerance and GM Crops
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2011
The evidence detailed in this report demonstrates that glyphosate-based products can have adverse impacts on human and animal health, and that a review of their safety for human and animal health is urgently needed. The widespread and increasingly intensive use of glyphosate in association with the use of GM (genetically modified, also called genetically engineered or GE) crops poses further risks to the environment and human health.’
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Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn’s Arctic Oil Rig
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2011
In a small boat launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International crossed into an exclusion zone and scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 120 km off the coast of Greenland.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Statement on TEPCO, Fukushima
Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2011
The environmental organisation says that TEPCO’s admission – that with temperatures reaching 2,800°C, melted fuel dropped and accumulated at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel, which was the breached, causing radiation to leak from the core and to spread via cooling water to the ground and ocean – clearly shows that there are significant risks to the marine ecosystem along the Fukushima coast.
→ read full articleMarine Radiation Monitoring Blocked By Japanese Government
Ike Teuling - Greenpeace,
2 May 2011
Despite this great need for information, the Japanese government today refused a permit to do research within the territorial waters of Japan. We are allowed to conduct research outside this 12 mile zone, but this is not the area where the Japanese catch their fish and collect their seaweed. This is a critical situation, so we are not giving up. We will continue heading for Fukushima to begin our research at a distance while we pursue further permission to carry out the sampling within the 12 mile limit.
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) Investigação do Greenpeace Implica Grandes Marcas na Destruição na Amazônia
Redação do Greenpeace,
8 Jun 2009
Investigações de três anos do Greenpeace sobre a indústria da pecuária brasileira revelam que marcas de fama mundial como Nike, Adidas, BMW, Gucci, Timberland, Honda, Wal Mart e Carrefour impulsionam o desmatamento da Amazônia.O incentivo de sucessivos governos brasileiros ao desmatamento da Amazônia ganhou impulso durante a ditadura militar, nas décadas de 60 e 70. […]
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