License: All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace The fight over the Arctic's oil and gas reserves has intensified - but what is actually going on? We've put together a short Q&A.; What's happened? ...

In a recent news item on the BBC , Artur Akopov, chief of operations on the Prirazlomnaya, made a number of absurd claims about the safety of the peaceful Greenpeace action on the side of Gazprom’s giant oil platform. In a ...

Gazprom may not be as familiar to you as BP or Exxon, but they’re just as capable of making history with a catastrophic oil spill. The Russian oil giant is the first company to start oil production in the Arctic after their failed...

I woke up at the crack of dawn this morning with my stomach in knots as I scrambled to check my twitter feed and email. It was five a.m. but I was wide awake; physically in Amsterdam but my heart in Russia where I knew that five of...

As social beings, we often celebrate our firsts: first step, first word, first day of college are typically shared and applauded with loved ones. But some firsts are more a cause for head-shakes than hi-fives, as is the case with the...

© Michael Nagle / Greenpeace It has been an awesome summer. Greenpeace has been in the Arctic continuously for months, bearing witness to the extraordinary changes, challenging outrageous attempts to find oil , explaining to...

Right now, I’m looking at Shell’s giant Arctic oil rig, the Polar Pioneer . Everyone standing onboard the Greenpeace ship, the Esperanza , is blown away by its size. We’re just a few miles away from Shell’s monster. Now we can...

ᐊᑎᕋ ᓂᑯᓚᐃ. ᑰᒥᒥᐅᓂᒃ ᐃᓅᖃᑕᐅᔪᖓ, ᑕᐃᒫᑦᓴᐃᓐᓇᕐᓗ ᑕᐃᔭᐅᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᕕᑦᑐᖅᓯᒪᓂᕐᒥᐅᑕᐅᓪᓗᖓ, ᑕᐅᕙᓂ ᐅᐊᓐᓇᖅᐸᓯᐊᓂ ᐅᓛᓯᐊᑉ. ᑲᓇᑕᒧᖓᐅᓵᓕᓂᐊᓕᕋᒪ, ᐱᓗᐊᖅᑐᒥᒃ ᐃᖃᓗᓐᓄᖓᐅᓗᖓ, ᓄᓇᖓᓐᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᑦ, ᓯᕗᓪᓕᖅᐹᕆᔭᕋᓂᒃ. ᐃᓕᓴᐃᔨᐅᕙᓚᐅᖅᑐᖓ ᓄᓇᓕᕆᔨᐅᓂᕐᒥᒃ, ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖃᑦᑕᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᖓᓗ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓄᓇᖁᑎᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᐅᑭᐅᖅᑕᖅᑐᖅᐸᓯᐅᓂᖓᓂᒃ.

Since the dawn of history, men, people and especially armies have flown flags and banners. The first ones, in fact, were an aid to co-ordinating troop movements on battlefields. Each flag indicated the exact position of a column of...