Blog: Oceans

Last year we challenged leading UK supermarkets to clean up their act by removing destructively fished seafood from their shelves - our new report shows that many of the biggest names on the high street have responded positively, and are leading a revolution that is transforming the entire fishing industry.

Greenpeace vows to return to the Southern Ocean to oppose Japan's continued 'scientific hunt'

Japan and the whaling lobby have finally won a simple majority vote at the 58th meeting of International Whaling Commission (IWC), held on the Caribbean island of St Kitts in June. 33 countries voted in favour of a resolution called the "St Kitts declaration" claiming that the "IWC has failed to meet its obligations under the terms of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW)" and declaring its commitment to "normalizing the functions of the IWC" - in other words, returning the organisation to its original hunting mandate.

Greenpeace calls for global marine reserves on World Oceans Day

As the kick-off to the football world cup approaches, how's this for a key pre-match statistic? Every four seconds, marine life in an area of ocean floor the size of ten football fields is wiped out by high seas bottom trawlers.

At a parliamentary reception organised by Greenpeace, supermarket bosses and environmental campaigners came together with politicians to discuss the crisis facing our oceans, and although there were differing views about what was required, everyone agreed on one thing: action needs to be taken, and taken quickly.