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Arctic Meltdown

Glaciers are retreating. Ice caps are melting. In the summer 2009, the Arctic Sunrise sails further North than any other Greenpeace ship ever has to document ice break-ups and the dire effects climate change has on one of the most fragile environments in the world.

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Recent Greenpeace news featuring the Arctic

Greenpeace's parody of the logo of French nuclear fuel company, Areva, exposing the deadly nature of their business. Areva are sponsoring the French entry in yachting's 2003 Americas Cup Enlarge Image

Activists set up home on the Happy Ranger

A few days ago the cargo ship The Happy Ranger left France carrying steam generators intended for the nuclear European Pressurised Reactor under construction in Olkiluoto, Finland. As the ship made its way from France to Finland, activists from the Arctic Sunrise boarded the cargo ship and are currently occupying the deck.

700 strip naked for a climate warning message in a French vineyard Enlarge Image

700 strip naked for climate message

700 volunteers posed nude in a French vineyard to send a message about climate change. This human art installation in the South of Burgundy was created by artist Spencer Tunick - to warn about the dangers of global warming.

Parental warning: the story below contains nudity

World leaders block the conveyor belts at Svea Coal Mine, hindering Arctic coal from being exported to European coal fired power plants. Enlarge Image

World leaders block Arctic coal shipment

Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and other world leaders took non-violent direct action today against a coal mine in Svalbard, denouncing the fossil fuel that is powering the meltdown of the Arctic.

Dr Paul Johnson Enlarge Image

Have scientist, will travel

Yes, it’s true, we do indeed have scientists. And some days, we even let them out of the lab.

The Arctic Sunrise reaches 'the ice bridge' in the Robeson channel, at 82.4 North, near the border between Greenland and Canada. Enlarge Image

Annual minimum area of Arctic sea-ice extent announced

The minimum area of summer Arctic sea-ice extent was reported this week to have plummeted to the third-lowest level in recorded history. This is Earth's way of saying that we're reaching the limits of what the planet can sustain.

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