Oceans

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Climate change

2021: Now is the time to tackle the climate, nature and health emergencies

Despite the turbulence of the last year, 2020 has shown the power of humanity to come together when faced with a crisis. It’s precisely that spirit we urgently need to…

by Shelley Harlock January 1, 2021

Air pollution

2020: the year in pictures

12 iconic photos from a year of disruptions - and the struggle to protect our future

by Angela Glienicke December 18, 2020

Fishing

Sea slug or Christmas decoration: can you tell the difference?

Only a true sea slug master will score more than 80% on this festive quiz.

by Mal Chadwick, Jack Bullett December 17, 2020

Fishing

Open letter: strengthening UK ocean protection

An open letter to Rebecca Pow MP and Victoria Prentis MP, Ministers for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

December 15, 2020

Oceans

Fishing area in the Antarctic becomes ocean sanctuary

An NGO-industry collaboration to protect the Antarctic Ocean today announces a big step forward with a year-round closure of a 4500km2 area of ocean around Hope Bay in the northern…

by James Hanson December 11, 2020

Environmental justice

Industrial fishing trawlers are bulldozing important artefacts of Black history on the ocean floor

Greenpeace UK has been taking action against industrial fishing ships trawling in so-called Marine Protected Areas. New evidence has emerged that trawlers have been bulldozing the wreck of the world's…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson October 28, 2020

Oceans

Greenpeace stops supertrawler fishing in UK marine protected area

Greenpeace activists have climbed the side of a Dutch-owned supertrawler fishing in a Marine Protected Area off the coast of Scotland, forcing the ship to leave the area.

by James Hanson October 13, 2020

Oceans

Artist Fiona Banner: ‘Why I delivered a 1.25 ton boulder sculpture to the government’

Turner Prize-nominated British artist Fiona Banner explains Full Stop – a three-part boulder sculpture left outside Defra and placed in the Dogger Bank Marine Protected Area.

by Fiona Banner October 5, 2020

Fishing

Greenpeace expands boulder barrier in marine protected area as government fails to strengthen safeguards

Greenpeace is placing more boulders in the Dogger Bank Marine Protected Area to stop destructive bottom trawling as the UK government has failed to commit to boosting legal protections for…

by Stefano Gelmini September 28, 2020

A map showing part of the North Sea, with Dogger Bank highlighted. An overlay shows the movements of a fishing vessel, and highlights where it switched off its AIS tracking system.

Fishing

AIS dark bottom trawling in the Dogger Bank

This report documents Greenpeace's investigation of destructive fishing practices within an area which is supposed to be legally protected. Greenpeace investigators also discovered widespread illegal fishing activity in the protected…

September 24, 2020