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From L’Oreal to Revlon, which brands are polluting the ocean with microbeads?

(PS – it’s all of them!) After discovering that 170 types of seafood contained traces of microplastics, Greenpeace East Asia decided to put 30 of the world’s biggest cosmetic and personal care brands to the test. Microbeads might be best known to you as the coloured beads in… Read More

Elisabeth Whitebread - 21st July 2016

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Amazon activists are unstoppable, another world is possible

The Amazon not only encloses a vast amount of biodiversity and serves as a home for Indigenous People, it holds an infinite and unstoppable spirit. From Japan to Mexico, Brazil to Romania, during the last couple of months Greenpeace groups have taken into the street to state loud and clear… Read More

Martin Vainstein - 20th July 2016

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6 priorities for the environment after Brexit

Well, it’s been quite a month.  If you’re struggling to get your head around what’s happened, you’re not alone.  Many people are wondering what the result of the EU referendum means and what is going to happen next. We don’t have the answers yet, but we can certainly ask the… Read More

Hannah Martin - 18th July 2016

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Warriors, snowboarders and solar powered freezers – Janet in the Amazon

This is an update sent from Janet, a long-time Greenpeace activist who we’ve sent to the heart of the Amazon. She’s on a mission to help stop a dam that would cut through the Tapajos river in the Amazon. The dam would risk thousands of species… Read More

Mal Chadwick - 16th July 2016

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Sainsbury’s tell us to “Taste The Difference” – now people are telling them to #StopTheIndifference

If you’ve visited Sainsbury’s during the last week, you may have noticed something a little different in the tuna aisle… This week hundreds are taking Sainsbury’s to task for continuing to stock John West tuna. People up and down Britain have been decorating the supermarket’s John West shelves with “promotional tags”… Read More

Fiona Nicholls - 15th July 2016

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