Greenpeace Blog

Announcing the winners of the Antarctic 360° drawing competition!

Posted by Emily Buchanan - 3rd August 2018
Image for Announcing the winners of the Antarctic 360° drawing competition!

On a baking hot weekend in July, we built a giant geodome in the middle of Cambridge and projected the icy cold Antarctic Ocean onto the ceiling. Antarctic 360° was a huge success and thousands of you came to see us, enduring the… Read More

Inside Antarctic 360°

Posted by Agasty Baylon Yogaratnam - 2nd August 2018
Image for Inside Antarctic 360°

This October, governments will decide on whether to establish an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary, the biggest of its kind. Scientists that advise the body responsible for this decision, known as the Antarctic Ocean Commission, held talks this July in Cambridge to discuss the details of this sanctuary.  … Read More

What’s going on with the weather?

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 30th July 2018
Image for What’s going on with the weather?
All rights reserved. Credit: Paddling down a flooded highway in Houston, US during Hurricane Harvey, 2017 - the kind of extreme weather that we're seeing more and more of. © Mannie Garcia/ Greenpeace.

In recent weeks we’ve seen horrifying fires in Greece, Colorado and the Arctic circle, record breaking temperatures around the world and extreme drought in places like Cape Town – to name a few. And in the UK, we’ve been feeling it too with blistering heat followed by dramatic storms. So while… Read More

Rebecca from Belfast – Why Barclays needs to stop funding tar sands pipelines

Posted by Greenpeace UK - 24th July 2018
Image for Rebecca from Belfast – Why Barclays needs to stop funding tar sands pipelines

My name’s Rebecca and I am a self-published author, writing science fiction based on current environmental issues. I’ve been running the Belfast Greenpeace group since February this year and of the campaigns I’ve been involved in, I find the current pipelines campaign against Barclays really important. Read More

Why the government’s post-Brexit environment plan isn’t good enough – and what you can do

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 23rd July 2018
Image for Why the government’s post-Brexit environment plan isn’t good enough – and what you can do
© Shutterstock
All rights reserved. Credit:

In January, the government issued its ‘’25 year Environment Plan” in a grand bid to foster the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than before. Hurrah! Except… plans for protecting the environment in the Government’s Brexit legislation agreed in June still contain some serious loopholes. Here’s… Read More