Environment

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

Bonnie Wright: our rivers, plastic and why it’s time to change course

Posted by Bonnie Wright - 16th May 2019
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Hollywood film star Bonnie Wright joins scientists and campaigners to investigate plastic pollution in the river Wye. They are collecting macro and microplastic samples from three different points along the Wye using a filtering device called a manta net.

My name is Bonnie Wright, I’ve been on film sets most of my life, from playing Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter to directing my own work. It’s taken me to places I’ll never forget – and so has the work I’ve done with Greenpeace.   Last year, I was off… 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 I’ve dedicated my life to protecting the rainforests

Posted by Annisa Rahmawati - 26th November 2018
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“Suddenly you are surrounded by calmness and fresh air. You are alone. You can listen to the sounds of the forest, the sounds of the birds. Whenever I go inside the forests, I feel always blessed and grateful.”

“I feel like a new person, reborn, when I am in the forest,” Annisa Rahmawati smiles. While Annisa finds peace and a sense of purpose among the trees, she also works every day to protect huge swathes of forest in her homeland, where the sound of bulldozers is threatening to drown out the sound of… 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