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Courage in the face of a crisis
Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of Sydney, has just declared a climate emergency in a bold demonstration of leadership. In doing so, Sydney has become the latest of 24 Australian local governments and territories representing over 2.5 million people to have formally acknowledged the climate emergency. ||| As Mayor Moore’s declaration has shown, we can’t sit…
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Climate emergency: City of Sydney calls it for what it is
SYDNEY, 25 June 2019. City of Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore has formally declared a climate emergency overnight in a move welcomed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.Sydney is the latest local government to declare a climate emergency amongst a rising tide of over 620 jurisdictions globally including the UK, Ireland, Auckland, Vancouver and the City of…
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ExxonMobil given the OK to drill Australia’s deepest-ever offshore oil & gas well
SYDNEY, 19 June 2019: ExxonMobil has been granted environmental approval this week to drill Australia’s deepest-ever oil and gas well in a move slammed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. The Sculpin well will be drilled in the Bass Strait to a depth of 2300 metres, and will be even deeper than Equinor’s controversial Stromlo-1 well proposed…
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Feeling climate-related distress? Here’s what can help
We are in the middle of a climate crisis, so feeling some level of distress about it is absolutely understandable. In fact, there’s a name for a fear of climate change . . . |||||||| We are in the middle of a climate crisis, so feeling some level of distress about it is absolutely understandable.…
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BP oil rig U-turns after failing to shake off Greenpeace ship
Scotland, UK – A Greenpeace ship has overtaken a BP rig near the drill site of a major new oil well in the North Sea.Early this afternoon a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, got ahead of the 27,000-tonne BP rig 83 miles off the Scottish coast. Soon afterwards the oil rig, approximately 20 miles short…
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Adani approval a slap in the face of common sense
SYDNEY, June 13, 2019 – The Queensland Government has approved Adani’s proposed groundwater management plan for the controversial coal mine, despite warnings from CSIRO, GeoScience Australia, and top water scientists. This afternoon Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science accepted Adani’s proposal to manage impacts on artesian basin water supplies, including the ancient Doongmabulla Springs.Greenpeace Australia…
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Morrison can’t support Adani and call the Pacific family
Greenpeace’s Head of Pacific Auimatagi Joseph Sapati Moeono-Kolio reflects on how decisions to open new coal mines in Australia will impact on his home and people. Pacific Island Represent! activists joined community members in Navutulevu Village on the Coral Coast to raise awareness about climate change, and plant mangroves to slow down coastal erosion.|Penelise Alofa…
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Ocean sanctuaries are the key to protecting our blue planet. Here’s the proof.
These success stories show how putting parts of the ocean off-limits to industry can make a huge difference ||||A group of Adeli Penguins are seen here in Antarctic sea ice. Our oceans are massive, and unlike most places on land, they don’t really have borders. Animals, water (and sadly now plastic) all move freely across…
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What if we treated our oceans like they matter?
The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve. Humpback whale with young (Megapetra noveangliae). Buckelwal (Megapetra noveangliae). Under the restless surface of our seas, hundreds of miles from land, there’s a world of giants and hunters; ancient lifeforms and lost cities. These waters…
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Join us on an epic voyage to protect the oceans
We’re crossing the planet to expose the threats, peacefully confront the villains, and champion the solutions for our oceans.
