Why Nuclear? Wednesday, 24 September 2014 The Minister of Energy, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, announced earlier this week that she signed a partnership agreement with Russia’s state-owned nuclear company, Rosatom, in support of a...

Making new training friends…Iceberg 1 & Iceberg 2 Tuesday, 23 September 2014 With time running out to train and prepare for the Last Desert Race, and with so many things still to be finalized before my departure for Antarctica,...

Media Coverage of Antarctica, Last Desert Race, Climate Change… Saturday, 20 September 2014 I had the opportunity over the past few days to participate in various media interviews in Cape Town about my upcoming running adventure...

Today marks a significant day in the countdown to the Last Desert Race in Antarctica …only 50 days to go before the start of my epic run of 250km on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on earth. Antarctica is considered a...

It was just past midnight when Indian police hauled two Greenpeace India activists out of their sleep and arrested them this week as a crackdown on protests against a planned coal mine in the Mahan forest intensified. The arrests...

If you’ve been following our forest campaigns, you’ll know the world’s forests are under a lot of pressure from deforestation and climate change. Although there is some good news coming through, there’s a still a whole lot that needs...