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Antarctic Treaty

Antarctic Treaty

Background | September 12, 2011 at 17:19

In a ground-breaking deal, governments agree to protect the Antarctic from mining. The Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959, was intended to preserve the continent for peaceful, scientific purposes, yet in the 1980s a race was underway to mine the...

Antarctic ice shelf collapses

Feature story | March 19, 2002 at 0:00

A huge ice shelf in Antarctica has collapsed in the space of only a month. The Larsen B ice shelf was 200m thick and 3250 km².

Antarctica

Antarctica

Background | June 8, 2009 at 8:40

The last (almost) untouched continent on this planet and its surrounding ocean, the Southern ocean, are threatened by whaling, overfishing and Climate Change. An essential first step to protect them was reached with the Environmental protocol to...

Protecting Antarctica

Protecting Antarctica

Background | May 12, 2009 at 6:49

The historic 1991 agreement to prohibit all mineral extraction in Antarctica for 50 years set an example for a new relationship with planet Earth.

Whaling in the Antarctic

Whaling in the Antarctic

Background | May 9, 2009 at 17:26

The devastation of whale populations by commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean is well documented, with 95 percent of the biomass of whales lost and the blue whale brought to the edge of extinction.

How are you celebrating World Penguin Day?

How are you celebrating World Penguin Day?

Blog entry by Willie Mackenzie - oceans campaigner | April 25, 2013 3 comments

It’s World Penguin Day today, and a fine excuse to celebrate the majesty and silliness of fine-flippered friends. In that spirit, I thought it would be good to pull together some fun facts about penguins. Some are fun, some are facts...

Protecting Antarctica, the heart of the ocean

Protecting Antarctica, the heart of the ocean

Blog entry by Veronica Frank | May 21, 2012

For many people the Antarctic is little more than a far-away frozen region, literally at the edge of the world; with sterile glaciers, icebergs and colonies of not-so ‘Happy Feet’ penguins, buffeted for much of their lives in the...

The Turkish authorities have refused the toxic ship

The Turkish authorities have refused the toxic ship

Feature story | May 9, 2002 at 0:00

The Turkish authorities have refused the toxic ship "Sea Beirut" entry to the Aliaga scrapyard having been warned of its approach by Greenpeace activists.

“For God’s sake look after our people”

“For God’s sake look after our people”

Blog entry by Joss Garman, Greenpeace UK | January 17, 2012

Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September , more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first trekked across similar icescapes at both of the frozen ends of the planet...

Greenpeace Whale Science Programme Captures Rare Humpback Recordings in Antarctica

Press release | January 8, 2008 at 12:17

An international team aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, currently searching for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, has made a rare series of recordings of humpback whales in Antarctic waters.“We were surrounded...

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