Tag: Greenpeace

Greenpeace launches Arctic expedition to survey marine mammals in area targeted for deep sea mining

Stuart Mitchell

Arctic waters are one of the most fragile ecosystems in the world, rapidly undergoing environmental change due to pollution-fuelled climate damage. The Arctic mining area is punctuated by underwater mountains and deep sea ridges, offering rich habitat for foraging and migrating whales, among many other species. Over the coming weeks, scientists onboard the Greenpeace ship Witness will conduct a visual-acoustic survey for cetaceans living in the area, including for some species that are globally threatened. “Whales and dolphins live and feed in the same deep sea area that the Norwegian…

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Photoplay’s Dropbear Fights For Our Forests in latest Greenpeace Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Australia is undergoing a mostly hidden deforestation crisis of a globally concerning scale. To help spread awareness, Greenpeace has teamed up with Photoplay director Dropbear to release a compelling animated campaign that pulls on the heartstrings of all Australians who care about our native animals and environment. Every two minutes, an MCG-sized area of forest and bushland is bulldozed in Australia, killing millions of native animals each year, while harming the land. To convey the devastation of deforestation, Greenpeace’s ‘Fight For Our Forests’ national campaign centers on a koala and…

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Greenpeace reveals the plastic choking the ‘golden floating rainforest’ of the Sargasso Sea

Stuart Mitchell

Campaigners from Greenpeace UK have retrieved hundreds of pieces of plastic from clusters of seaweed floating in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. They spent the last five days on board the Arctic Sunrise crossing the sea to launch a campaign to create a global network of marine sanctuaries under the Global Ocean Treaty. The ship crew made an unplanned stop to look inside a patch of sargassum seaweed – the golden algae that forms gigantic floating mats and gives the Sargasso Sea its name. Although this was a…

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UK worst of top Western European economies for green spending

Stuart Mitchell

The UK government ranks worst out of top 5 Western European economies on green spending, new Greenpeace analysis can reveal. Out of the biggest 5 Western European economies, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK, the UK government spends the least in total, and also comes out worst when looking at per capita green energy spending.  The Greenpeace analysis, which examined the International Energy Agency (IEA) government energy spending tracker that looks at 2020-2023, also found that the UK ranks worst for total spend on low carbon and efficient transport…

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UK’s Largest Household Plastic Waste Survey Returns

Stuart Mitchell

From Devon to Dundee, across all 650 parliamentary constituencies, more than 30,000 participants are ready to count their plastic waste as registration opens for The Big Plastic Count, including 3,800 school classes and 2,300 teachers. The return of the UK’s largest survey into household plastic waste is set to take place on 11-17 March 2024. The national plastic-counting campaign returns for its second time and sees Greenpeace UK and the non-profit organisation Everyday Plastic invite individuals, households, schools, community groups and businesses to take part in the largest plastic investigation of its kind. University of Portsmouth, Tearfund, The…

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