The Latest Breaking News from Greenpeace

Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform

The piece, titled BUTCHERED, was conceived specially for the protest on the Skiff platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast.

Almost 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

FOI requests reveal leaks beneath cities, residential areas, riverbeds and fields in ‘huge problem for environment’

A Swiss ocean protection group is handing out bars of soap to negotiators working on a global accord to end plastic pollution

Environmental organisations warn that without urgent compromises the session could fail to produce a treaty capable of tackling the scale of the crisis

Air sampling in the Swiss city this week detected plastic fibres and fragments in both indoor and outdoor locations, including cafés, public transport and shops

Environmental NGOs are raising concerns about the growing presence of petrochemical industry lobbyists at talks to forge a global treaty to combat plastic pollution.

Campaigners warn of ‘crisis of credibility’ as number of lobbyists attending plastics treaty negotiations rises

Negotiations aimed at forging a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting bogged down in a "dialogue of the deaf", sources in and around the talks told AFP. Ten days of talks on finalising an international, legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution opened on Tuesday…

With plastic production projected to triple by 2060, pressure is mounting to secure a binding agreement that tackles the crisis at its source.