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Happy World Oceans Day!

Posted by Fiona Nicholls - 8th June 2018
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The theme for this year’s World Oceans Day is ocean plastics and on behalf of all sea creatures, every turtle, whale, seabird, zooplankton – too right. We’ve produced a whopping 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics since the 1950s, and with plastic production… Read More

Stop the nuclear bailout!

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 8th June 2018
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This week Greg Clark, minister for energy, confirmed in Parliament that he is in talks to spend taxpayers’ money to bail out a nuclear power station in Anglesey, Wales. Although he wouldn’t reveal it, we know the total cost of Wylfa is set to… Read More

In Pictures: Fighting Plastic Pollution on World Oceans Day!

Posted by Angela Glienicke - 8th June 2018
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Plastic caught up in the bleached corals around the Addu Atoll in the Maldives.
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The focus for this year’s World Ocean Day is preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean. Plastic pollution is one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans, choking and entangling marine wildlife. These pictures are a sad testament of the problems caused by the tonnes of… Read More

Plastic pollution reaches the Antarctic

Posted by Louisa Casson - 7th June 2018
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It’s not what we wanted to find. When Greenpeace set sail to the Antarctic earlier this year, we were going to look for the incredible wildlife – tottering penguins, majestic whales, soaring seabirds – that call the Antarctic Ocean home. But even in these incredibly… Read More

Five things you should know about Gove’s ‘green Brexit’

Posted by Flo Stuart-Leach - 31st May 2018
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The beautiful Shiant Isles are home to large populations of seabirds, including puffins.

Over and over again we’ve been promised a ‘green Brexit’. Prime Minister Theresa May pledged “let me be very clear, Brexit will not mean a lowering of environmental standards.” And last year Environment Secretary, Michael Gove, spoke about plans for “a new, world-leading” environmental watchdog that would “give the environment… Read More