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Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Wildlife

Publication | August 27, 2012 at 15:56

It is now very evident that the temperatures in the Arctic are warming due to climate change, with a resulting impact on sea ice. Over the past 100 years, average Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate.

Giant melting da Vinci artwork recreated on Arctic sea ice

Press release | September 7, 2011 at 14:50

Fram Strait, Arctic, 7 September 2011 – A giant version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous sketch ‘Vitruvian Man’ depicted melting from the sea ice into the Arctic Ocean has been constructed just 800 kilometres from the North Pole, as a call for...

Polar bear paddle boat protest

Feature story | February 1, 2008 at 0:00

What's a polar bear to do? Your ice is melting, politicians won't listen, and the government is dragging its feet about listing you as endangered... Off to Washington, to start your own floating vigil! Uh oh, here comes the fuzz.

Lost in Russia

Video | August 28, 2012 at 13:41

Greenpeace finds a lost polar bear in the Russian port city of Murmansk. He can't find his Arctic home as the sea ice is melting and oil companies are trying to exploit his natural habitat.

Polar bears hunt on the sea ice

Image | September 11, 2012 at 14:30

The Greenpeace ship. Arctic Sunrise is on an expedition to the Arctic to document the lowest sea ice level on record. Scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) release preliminary figures suggesting that Arctic sea ice has...

Bearing down on us at 80 degrees North

Blog entry by Joss Garman | September 7, 2011 6 comments

Woken up as usual at 7.30 for breakfast and cleaning, I’d had a shower and was getting clothed when someone said 'polar bears outside.' I said to Ethan, the assistant cook who is also my roomie, who has been aboard two weeks already.

Montreal Climate Summit 2005: Greenpeace Document kit

Publication | November 15, 2005 at 0:00

Greenpeace position papers and backgrounders for the 2005 Montreal Climate Summit.

Our biggest day of action ever aims to Save the Arctic

Blog entry by Markus Power | June 23, 2012 11 comments

Today is the biggest “Day of Action” we have ever done - with 2,000 volunteers taking part in 20 countries from Canada to Switzerland to Chile to Australia! Starting today, volunteers on the streets of 200 cities will talk to tens...

Drawing a line in the Arctic ice

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | June 21, 2012 7 comments

Earlier today at the Rio Earth Summit, Greenpeace joined forces with a host of famous names to demand that the uninhabited area of the High Arctic that lies around the North Pole be legally protected and kept off-limits to the...

Chinese Musician Hu Haiquan and the polar bear

Video | August 8, 2012 at 14:20

Chinese pop musician, Hu Haiquan, of Yu Quan fame, went with Greenpeace to the Arctic. He found out why the home of the precious polar bear needs to be saved.

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