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Activism

Three powerful artworks highlighting the struggle to save Britain’s oceans

Greenpeace collaboration with leading artists explores loss, hardship and hope for a better future.

by Aislinn Mulligan February 16, 2023

A humpback whale and calf swim just under the surface of a rich blue ocean

Climate change

Whale warning as clock ticks towards deep sea mining

Scientists warn deep sea mining could be a “significant risk to ocean ecosystems” with “long lasting and irreversible” impacts, including to globally endangered species, like blue whales. Noise and disturbance…

by Alison Kirkman February 14, 2023

Activists hang a banner reading 'Stop drilling start paying' from the flaring rig of an oil platform, high above a port city.

Climate change

After 13 days and nearly 4,000km, Greenpeace occupation of Shell oil platform ends with no arrests

Six Greenpeace International activists, including Imogen Michel from the UK, have ended their 13-day occupation of a major new Shell oil platform destined for the North Sea. They've been demanding…

by Emily Black February 12, 2023

Fuel poverty protesters walk along a street with banners reading

Environmental justice

Almost 95% of fuel poor households will remain in fuel poverty in 2030 under government’s ‘unlawful’ plans

Greenpeace UK threatens legal action over government’s failure to meet statutory obligations to reduce fuel poverty

by Phil Richards February 9, 2023

Two more Greenpeace climbers board the Shell oil platform that is being transported to an oilfield north of the Shetland Islands.

Activism

BREAKING: Shell threatens Greenpeace protestors with jail and fines, but legal tactics fail as Greenpeace sends second boat and more climbers to occupy oil platform

Action photos and video available here. Shell has attempted to silence Greenpeace International’s peaceful occupation of its oil and gas platform at sea by hitting the campaign group with…

by Emily Black February 6, 2023

Environmental justice

Shell UK headquarters targeted as it reveals record £32.2bn profits – Activists tell Shell: Stop Drilling. Start Paying

While Shell counts their record-breaking billions, people across the globe count the damage from the record-breaking droughts, heatwaves and floods this oil giant is fuelling

by Jasmine Watkiss February 2, 2023

Victorine holds a banner in front of the Arctic Sunrise ship.

Activism

“From Cameroon to Germany, no-one is safe from climate destruction. It’s time for polluters to pay.”

How many more people need to die or be displaced, and how much more of nature needs to be destroyed, before it's enough? Fossil fuel companies must stop drilling and…

by Victorine Che Thoener January 31, 2023

Virginia looks into the camera with a serious expression. She wears a tshirt with a climate justice slogan.

Activism

“My new home was a dream come true – then climate disaster struck”

Now I’m making sure fossil fuel companies are held responsible for the lives they’ve destroyed.

by Virginia Benosa-Llorin January 31, 2023

Yeb Saño stands in a forest, looking past the camera pensively.

Activism

“The typhoon ripped through my home town”: activists on why they’re taking action against Shell

For many of the activists and crew involved, this is personal. Here, they share what Shell’s climate crimes have taken from them and their communities.

by Greenpeace UK January 31, 2023

Aerial shot of Shell's ship with the giant oil platform on the deck, accompanied by a smaller escort ship.

Activism

How Greenpeace activists occupied a Shell platform heading for a major oil and gas field

Activists from climate-hit countries exposed Shell's reckless plans to drill for more oil and gas, as the company announced record profits. The protest was Greenpeace’s longest ever occupation of a…

by Greenpeace UK January 31, 2023