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A chance to change history
Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo, is in Indonesia for the Rainbow Warrior’s ‘Turning the Tide’ tour. I’ve arrived in Indonesia – a country at the frontier of deforestation and climate change. Indonesia is the planet’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, largely due to deforestation. Its indigenous communities are losing their homes and livelihoods.…
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What’s it like to be a Greenpeace photographer?
Ever wondered what it is like to take photographs for Greenpeace? Belinda Pratten is the photographer behind our upcoming exhibition in Sydney that documents Greenpeace’s occupation of two Queensland coal export terminals in 2009. She captured these direct actions as they unfolded, sometimes from an inflatable. She also documented life on board Greenpeace ship, MV…
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Queensland woman trades oil tanker job for Greenpeace
Yesterday, two Greenpeace activists attached themselves to the anchor chain of a giant oil drilling ship destined for a dangerous deep-sea exploratory well in the Atlantic Frontier of Scotland. Inflatable boats launched from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza have now towed a ‘survival pod’ to them to allow the activists to occupy and stop the ship…
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Offshore drilling: Is it worth the risk?
Aussie lad Shannon is onboard a research expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. Writing from the deck of the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise, he asks if the profit from offshore drilling is really worth it. I’m sitting on the heli-deck of the Arctic Sunrise near a small group of islands located at the end of the Florida…
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Aussie sailor seeks the truth behind the BP oil spill
Shannon Lo Ricco, a lad from country Victoria, writes from his cabin on the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise. Shannon is a logistics co-ordinator on board a ship tour in the Gulf of Mexico. Along with a team of scientists, Shannon is asking the million-dollar question – ‘Where has all the oil from the BP spill gone?’…
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Greenpeace confronts reckless oil exploration
Greenpeace is sending two ships to the frontiers of the world’s oil problem. Greenpeace is sending two ships to the frontiers of the world’s oil problem. The mission of the Esperanza is clear: to confront the kind of reckless oil exploration that keeps wrecking our environment. In the Gulf of Mexico the Arctic Sunrise will…
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Hiroshima remembered – Greenpeace revisits the tragic legacy of nuclear testing
On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by a single atomic bomb. Upon impact, thousands of people were instantly carbonised in a blast a thousand times hotter than the sun’s surface. Around 80,000 died instantly, while the final toll climbed to 250,000. On August 9, Nagasaki suffered a comparable fate. The 65th…
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Green Pickings From The Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival is just around the corner – 2-14 June. Now, if you’re anything like me, you find out about these things after they’ve happened and wished you had time to do some planning beforehand. Well, this year, I’ve sat down and picked out some films I want to see. While doing that,…
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Gabriel Vianna and Felipe Vallejo: ”A more sustainable relationship between people and oceans”
Gabriel Vianna Greenpeace/Paul Hilton Gabriel, or Gabe as we normally call him, is another one of our Brazilian nationals on board. He is currently the assistant leader for the dive team, responsible for documenting the marine life as well as patiently holding campaign banners under water, among other tasks. And by the way, Gabe is…
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Powering the plunder, fueling the fire: Tuna today, gone tomorrow
The fuel tanker Fong Seong 888 refueling the purse seiner MV American Legacy. Both are owned by the Taiwanese Chen family network of Companies. The number 8 in the Chinese culture is considered a lucky number, as the word for eight sounds similar to the word meaning ‘prosper’ or ‘wealth’ . I am pretty…