Greenpeace activists are blocking the ship Hanjin Imabari, carrying coal from Richards Bay, South Africa to the Danish coal plant Enstedværket, in Aabenraa, from offloading its many tonnes of coal. Activists have blocked a crane used to unload the coal, while the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is urging the Danish government to "Quit Coal".

Early this morning, 11 Greenpeace activists scaled a 150-metre high chimney at the Pątnów power plant in Poland to hang a banner reading "Quit coal, save the climate". Greenpeace is calling on the Polish government to stop undermining the European Union climate package.

Greenpeace today demanded that governments gathering at the UN climate talks in Poznan get serious about taking concrete action to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Greenpeace today released an analysis showing that the global cost of coal was at least €360 billion last year alone. The report, "The True Cost of Coal", released with the independent Dutch Institute CE Delft, arrived at this figure by looking at very modest CO2 damage costs, health costs and mining accidents.

Greenpeace has called today's outcome of the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) disastrous and shameful. ICCAT has rendered itself incapable of managing the recovery of bluefin tuna stocks in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic. This creates a vacuum, which must now be filled by other fora, including through the introduction of trade restrictions under the International Convention dealing with trade in endangered species (CITES).

Greenpeace has called today’s outcome of the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) disastrous and shameful. ICCAT has rendered itself incapable of managing the recovery of bluefin tuna stocks in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic. This creates a vacuum, which must now be filled by other fora, including through the introduction of trade restrictions under the International Convention dealing with trade in endangered species (CITES).

Greenpeace today marked the opening of its office in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by welcoming Congolese officials aboard its ship, the Arctic Sunrise, currently docked in Matadi, the country's principal port for timber exports.

Now in its tenth edition, the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics shows that most consumer electronics companies have been slow to get serious about climate change. Despite much green marketing, many brands still show little engagement with the issue.

In an a-maize-ing feat at the heart of the EU quarter in Brussels this morning, Greenpeace activists climbed a building on Schuman square to display a giant banner of a 'scary' genetically modified (GM) corn plant bearing the slogan Stop GMOs'. The action coincides with the last in a string of meetings of national experts who are looking into reforming the EU's authorisation process for GM products and precedes a meeting of European environment ministers who will assess their findings next week.

This morning a Mercedes Benz, a BMW and a Volkswagen, driven by a group of “climate barbarians”, entered the Circus Maximus in Rome [1] led by the new “Emperor Nero” (Berlusconi). Greenpeace activists, wearing ancient Roman dress blocked the symbolic convoy, unrolling banners reading: “QUO VADIS, BERLUSCONI?” and “VADE RETRO CO2! INQUINATORES NON PREVALEBUNT” - Where are you going, Berlusconi? Go back CO2! Polluters will not prevail!

Greenpeace activists have today dumped some 5 tonnes of dead bluefin tuna heads in front of the French Fisheries Ministry in Paris to protest the continued mismanagement of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna fishery that is leading to the commercial extinction of the species. The action was timed to coincide with the opening of the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), in Marrakech.

Greenpeace activists this morning marked the departure of Japan's whaling fleet from the port of Innoshima with banners reading "Whaling on Trial", another in Japanese outlining the whaling operation's multi-million dollar drain on Japan's taxpayers. The fleet had attempted to leave Japan quietly, following the cancellation of the traditional high-profile departure ceremony in its home port of Shimonoseki. Waved off only by the crew's families and whaling officials, the factory ship Nisshin Maru left Innoshima with no fanfare, with all reports suggesting a direct route to the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary [1].

Two Greenpeace ships, the Rainbow Warrior and the Beluga II, have blocked the Mississippi harbour in Rotterdam to prevent coal cargo ships coming in to unload. Today's action, part of a weekend long protest in the Netherlands against German utility company E.ON, follows the arrest of 90 Greenpeace activists yesterday after they peacefully stopped construction of E.ON's new coal plant at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam.

400 people living around a huge open pit mine near Konin, Poland, joined Greenpeace today to reclaim the land occupied by the mine, which threatens their homes and livelihoods. At noon, local residents together with 7 mayors from villages and towns that are facing destruction because of the mine's expansion, gathered at Greenpeace's Climate Rescue Station on the edge of the mine.

Ninety Greenpeace activists have been arrested following an action this morning in which they chained themselves to building machinery and cranes to stop the construction of a coal fired power at Maasvlakte, Rotterdam. The action began at 7am with police beginning the arrests at midday.

Greenpeace today prevented the loading of crude palm oil on the Isola Corallo, a Rotterdam-bound tanker in Dumai, Indonesia's main palm oil export port. Greenpeace is calling upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which meets in Bali next week, to take urgent action against member companies who destroy forests and peatlands.

Thirty Greenpeace activists have stopped the operation of a giant excavator in one of the largest lignite mines in the Czech Republic. Greenpeace is demanding the Czech Republic closes the CSA mine by 2012, commits to progressively decreasing its own carbon emissions and plays a constructive role in climate policy making.

Greenpeace Africa opened its first office in Johannesburg today(1), announcing a long-term commitment to building a strong presence in Africa dedicated to tackling the most urgent environmental problems facing the continent - climate change, deforestation and overfishing.

According to news reports in Japan this morning, there will be a 20% reduction in the number of whales targeted in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary hunt this year - the first reduction since 1987.

Greenpeace has warned that the IEA's World Energy Outlook 2008 'business as usual' approach will condemn the world to catastrophic climate impacts. Paying lip service to the climate change crisis, the IEA forecasts more fossil fuel consumption than the planet can handle, while promoting carbon capture and storage and nuclear power.