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A woman in a bright blue sea waering a snorkel mask uses a long ruler to measure a flaoting bush of sargassum seaweed

Oceans

Exploring the Bermuda Triangle: Greenpeace in the Sargasso Sea

Scientists and activists are on board a Greenpeace ship in the Sargasso Sea – one of the world’s most ecologically rich places you’ve probably never heard of. They’re making the…

by Henry Fry May 7, 2024

Oceans

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

Greenpeace UK 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…

by Alexandra Sedgwick May 7, 2024

A clump of golden seaweed floats on the surface of the ocean, with small fish swimming in and out, forming a diverse nourishing habitat for marine life to thrive.

Oceans

The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting

Here’s why the spectacular Sargasso Sea should be one of the first new ocean sanctuaries created by the new Global Ocean Treaty

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson, Angela Glienicke May 2, 2024

Plastic

BREAKING: Greenpeace send dead Dove confetti raining over Unilever board as company AGM kicks off

Footage available here. Greenpeace UK has today disrupted the start of Unilever’s Annual General Meeting in an escalation of its global…

by Stefano Gelmini May 1, 2024

Twigs and driftwood overlaid on a few pieces of plastic, the most prominent of which is a Dove plastic sachet

Plastic

5 reasons to ditch Dove products this summer

140,000 people signed a letter to Dove demanding they stop causing ‘Real Harm’ to women with their single-use plastic sachets. But the skincare brand isn’t listening. It’s time to ditch…

by Greenpeace UK May 1, 2024

A drilling structure platform lit up at dusk, silhouetted against the blue-orange sky

Environmental justice

Taxing fossil fuel giants could raise $720 bn by 2030 to help world’s poorest with climate damages, new report finds

A tax on the extraction of fossil fuels in the world’s richest advanced economies could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade to support the world’s…

by Joe Evans April 29, 2024

Portraits of Susan Hall and Sadiq Khan with 'vs' in between them

Climate change

How do the Mayor of London election candidates stack up on energy, transport, climate and nature?

If you're in London and care about climate and nature, here's what you need to know about the people who want your vote for Mayor

by Greenpeace UK April 29, 2024

Photo montage shows smiling children counting plastic against a colourful background.

Plastic

Here’s what we learned from counting 4 million pieces of plastic

Schools, households, community groups and businesses up and down the country counted their plastic waste for a whole week in March to reveal the state of the UK's plastic waste…

by Florence Stuart-Leach April 18, 2024

An inflatable pink octopus stands outside a tall hotel in London's canary wharf. A Greenpeace activist holds a banner reading 'STOP DEEP SEA MINING' in front.

Deep sea mining

Greenpeace confronts deep sea mining industry with giant octopus

Greenpeace activists brought a giant pink octopus to confront the deep sea mining industry at its annual shindig in Canary Wharf, London

by Kai Tabacek April 17, 2024

Six uniformed schoolchildren throw plastic rubbish up into the air

Plastic

The UK’s Largest Plastic Waste Survey Reveals 1.7 Billion Pieces of Plastic Packaging Still Being Thrown Away by Households Weekly

The Big Plastic Count found that UK households discard an estimated 90 billion plastic pieces annually, with only 17% being recycled domestically.

by Alexandra Sedgwick April 16, 2024