climate change

Explained: Theresa May’s ‘net zero’ plan. WTF is it, will it be any good?

Posted by Rebecca Newsom - 12th June 2019
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The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm is located off the coast of Thanet district in Kent, England.

Today, outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May has committed the UK to a legally-binding ‘net zero’ emissions target by 2050. If you’re anything like me you’d have heard the news and thought – huh? is this good? Then you low-key googled “what… Read More

Breaking: “I’ve shut down BP. Here’s why.”

Posted by Paula Radley - 20th May 2019
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All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace

As you read this, I’m sitting in a big container outside BP HQ in London, blocking one of the main entrances to the building. Along with a team of climbers on the roof, and more people in containers like mine, we’ve shut down the building. This is one of the… Read More

What if we treated our oceans like they matter?

Posted by Mal Chadwick - 12th April 2019
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The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve. Under the restless surface of our seas, hundreds of miles from land, there’s a world of giants and hunters; ancient lifeforms and lost cities. These waters beyond national borders are… Read More

Why commercial whaling should just be found in history books

Posted by Willie Mackenzie - 25th January 2019
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The Humpback whale at sea, in its natural environment.

Whales are amazing. Yet today they face a growing number of threats from us humans, from plastic pollution to climate change – so the one thing we really don’t need to be doing is killing them for profit. Commercial whaling was stopped by… Read More

Climbing to protect the planet

Posted by Caitlin Jones - 22nd November 2018
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Our climbers rely on their equipment to make sure they can take part in actions safely.

This week we scaled Mondelez’s HQ to take a clear message to the company’s bosses. They must stop destroying the Indonesian rainforest for dirty palm oil, because as the trees come crashing down, so do orangutan numbers. Every day we lose 25 orangutans. The world is talking about palm… Read More

The vital kit we need to stop environmental criminals

Posted by Caitlin Jones - 20th November 2018
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Without our tracking device, more forest would have been destroyed.

Our investigations team have a job no like no other. One week they might be uncovering data to stop oil drilling in the Arctic, and the next they might be tracking trucks suspected of illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. The Investigations… Read More