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The most northerly youth strike ever!
I’m here in the Arctic to bear witness to the sea ice minimum, the moment in which the Arctic sea ice shrinks to its smallest size each year before expanding out again, and a key indicator of the health of the Arctic. This year it was the second smallest ever, following the pattern of recent…
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Get plastic waste out of our lives
Organisations focused on zero waste and the circular economy have joined forces to support the government’s proposed ban on a range of single-use and hard-to-recycle plastic products, and are encouraging New Zealanders who care about waste issues to do the same.
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The ice is disappearing, BUT a movement is emerging
Today, scientists sounded another alarm on the impacts of the climate breakdown: the Arctic sea ice minimum has reached its 2nd lowest level since measurements began.
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Election 2020: What have political parties committed to do about climate change and the environment?
UPDATED 21 Sept - With just five weeks to go until Election Day, we take a look at what New Zealand’s political parties have committed to so far, when it comes to addressing climate change. This is not intended to tell you which party to vote for. We need all political parties to do better,…
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Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires
What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.
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Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted?
On June 20 2020, the mercury reached 38°C in Verkhoyansk, Siberia – the hottest it’s ever been in the Arctic in recorded history. With the heatwaves came fire, and by the start of August around 600 individual fires were being detected every day. By early September, parts of the Siberian Arctic had been burning since…
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The Greenpeace Lockdown activism Zoom sessions
- UPDATED - Thinking back to the beginning of March this year, I don’t think any of us could have imagined that we would be living in the midst of a global pandemic…
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Our Entangled World
We have squandered the real wealth of our soils by depleting and destroying these fragile networks. Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life is a good reminder of the path we need to follow to restore our wounded ecosystems.
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With the advance of COVID-19, Indigenous People shelter inside the Forest
The original version of this story was published in Portuguese on July 15 by Greenpeace Brazil.
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Oil is leaking all over the world
We are in the midst of a climate emergency – melting ice caps, dying coral reefs, wildfires, more and more extreme weather events – yet companies continue to drill for oil. These recent incidents, among several others this year, are just another reminder about the dangers of fossil fuels and why it is more urgent…