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Close-up of the starcase leading up to a private jet

Air pollution

Private jet flights in the UK soar to new heights – analysis

The UK has the busiest private jet route, the most polluting route and the most flights overall out of any European country, according to a new analysis.

by Kai Tabacek March 30, 2023

Activists hold a banner reading 'Rishi Sunak - oil profits or our future?' In the background there's a grand house covered in black fabric.

Climate change

Greenpeace activists arrested but questions remain over Sunak’s commitment to new oil and gas

The four Greenpeace activists who draped 200 sq metres of oil-black fabric over the Prime Minister’s £2m manor house in Yorkshire have been arrested by North Yorkshire police.

by Phil Richards August 3, 2023

Tree silhouettes against a background of smoke, half the forest is burnt and has become ash around them.

Forests

COP26: Greenpeace condemns green light for another decade of forest destruction

COP26 today saw a flurry of announcements on forests - among them a new agreement between governments, including Brazil, to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. But Greenpeace slammed the…

by Alison Kirkman November 2, 2021

Giant cranes assemble the tower of a new wind turbine. A dramatic sunny sky and completed turbines can be seen in the background.

Climate change

How will climate influence the next election? New poll shows what the public really think.

Concerns over climate and nature are higher than the national average in the Blue Wall and scores of marginal seats, a major new survey of 20,000 people shows. Get the full report here.

September 26, 2023

Two people supporting a large boulder being lifted by ropes and pulleys on a ship

Nature and wildlife

Greenpeace announces new ocean boulder barrier plans, telling PM: “If your government won’t protect our seas, we will”

Stephen Fry, Paloma Faith and Simon Pegg back Greenpeace UK’s direct action as government is accused of failing on ocean protection Greenpeace UK has today announced its intention to create…

by Alison Kirkman June 23, 2026

People swimming in the sea with an oil platform in the distance

Climate change

Denmark stops new oil and gas, campaigners say UK must follow suit

Denmark will cancel all future licensing rounds for new oil and gas in the Danish part of the North Sea and end existing production by 2050.

by Emily Black December 4, 2020

People

Greenpeace UK appoints Kathryn Tomlinson as new board chair

Greenpeace UK has appointed Kathryn Tomlinson as the new chair of its board of directors. Kathryn, who is the Deputy Secretary General at Amnesty International, brings many years of director-level…

by Stefano Gelmini July 17, 2026

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 case for it to become the first new ocean sanctuary under the Global Ocean Treaty.

by Henry Fry May 7, 2024

Climate change

Cold weather and climate change explained

The polar vortex isn’t something out of science fiction – it explains why we sometimes get freezing cold weather from climate change.

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson March 22, 2021

Deep sea mining

Greenpeace underwater robot sets record for the world’s deepest protest from Arctic seabed

Photo and video available here An underwater robot has set a new record for the world’s deepest protest after revealing a banner saying ‘LISTEN TO THE SCIENCE!’ 1.4 miles (2.3…

by Greenpeace UK Press Office May 27, 2026