The weather has improved a bit since the constant rain on Monday. But the sun didn't shine on the world's leaders here. And they didn't deserve that either. The G8 has failed. But they did get a lot of security
With the familiar hype, the latest "revolutionary" iPhone 3G is released by Apple this Friday. In all the promises of faster, better, cheaper, there's not a peep about it being any greener than the first iPhone. Well there is a
It's the last day of the G8 - and hopefully the last day of Bush Major Emitters/ Economies meetings . Today, countries representing 80 percent of global emissions will be holding talks. They will not make progress - because the
If you look at the G8 agenda, most of it is about food. There is a working lunch, a working dinner, another working lunch. And then there is the photo call. And then - that's it. How appropriate then, that
The G8 climate statement is out (see here ). The leaders will spin this as good. But it is not. Here is our reaction: "The G8 have failed the world again. While the Artic is melting, the G8 are postponing
Update from Daniel at the G8: The G8 leaders have been hiding from the people they claim to represent in ever more remote places in recent years. But the summit here at Toyako, Hokkaido, takes the idea of "hiding far,
Although this song reminds me of dreamy hippies, here in Southern Thailand it is reality. The Rainbow Warrior has arrived in Thailand and was greeted by traditional Thai dancers. My heart beat faster when the ship came into port. I
We're still working to build a coalition of companies which are determined to reform the palm oil industry so no more forest is lost due to the expansion of their plantations in South East Asia and with Unilever's help we're
Our activist friends Junichi and Toru are still behind bars. It's been 13 days since they were arrested after exposing a whale meat smuggling scandal. Yeah, feel free to read that sentence again if you need to. It's as crazy
Here's a not-so-fun fact: I've been working on the forest campaign for about a month now, and I've heard a lot of people mention how many football fields of forest disappear every second/ hour/day . I don't know about others,
At last... IWC60, also known as the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting, is now over. I started writing blog in the press room yesterday, while listening to the incredible (and often entertaining) rhetoric emanating from the pro-whaling nations, especially those
What an end to our Quit Coal ship tour in the Philippines... After talking about the effects of Climate Change on the Philippines for several weeks, I experienced them first hand with "Frank" or internationally better known as Typhoon Fengshen.
This is a rough translation of the final blog that Junichi Sato wrote before he was arrested in Tokyo for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat, itself stolen from the Japanese taxpayers, that he presented to police as evidence
Junichi Sato is not only a whale activist in Japan (and there ain't many people who can put THAT on their business card), he's also a blogger. And he's been arrested for the crime of exposing the truth. AFP reported
Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Japan for Exposing Stolen Whale Meat Scandal Breaking news - two Japanese Greenpeace activists, Junichi and Toru, have been arrested for exposing the stolen whale meat scandal which led to the ongoing investigation by the Tokyo
One of our supporters sent along the following memo which the National Fisheries Institute circulated in the US just before the launch of our Seafood Red List and our supermarket ranking guide , which had the audacity to evaluate the
Hello from Santiago, Chile, where the Greenpeace Whales team is gathering for this years International Whaling Commission meeting . There'll be more news in the coming days like an update on today's "Future of the IWC" discussion - but I
Sorry but my last entry didn't show up on the website (internet doesn't always work on the ship). So I give you again an overview of the last days. When the sun rose on Monday morning I climbed into one
