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Our blackened boots expose the truth in the Russian Arctic

Our blackened boots expose the truth in the Russian Arctic

Blog entry by Zhenya Belyakova | June 10, 2013 3 comments

Right now I am in the Russian Arctic as part of a Greenpeace factfinding mission. We are near a town called Pyt'-Yah, in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, which is surrounded by Rosneft oil fields, the largest public oil company in...

Siberian Oil Spill

Slideshow | June 10, 2013
Russian Indigenous communities clean up Rusvietpetro’s oil spill as company does nothing

Russian Indigenous communities clean up Rusvietpetro’s oil spill as company does nothing

Blog entry by Laura Kenyon | June 4, 2013 1 comment

On May 26, oil began flowing down the Kolva River through Komi Indigenous land in Northern Russia. For a week now the oil has been coating the river and building up on the banks, with no reaction from Rusvietpetro, the joint venture...

I Love Arctic meets Arctic Council

I Love Arctic meets Arctic Council

Blog entry by Markus Power | May 16, 2013 4 comments

The air was abuzz this morning in Kiruna. As delegates and press were mingling in the breakfast hall, Foreign Ministers were entering their policed motorcades and a group of Greenpeace volunteers was making final preparations to greet...

Untangling the Gordian knot between the oil industry and the Arctic Council

Untangling the Gordian knot between the oil industry and the Arctic Council

Blog entry by Ruth Davis | May 16, 2013 1 comment

The Arctic Council — the body concerned with the future management of the region — met today in Kiruna, Sweden’s most northern city, built around the world’s largest underground iron mine. As is perhaps inevitable when digging an...

Scientists warn of growing crisis in the Arctic; Arctic Council again fails to act

Press release | May 15, 2013 at 13:01

Despite strong calls for more action to address climate change from its own working groups and scientists, and many of the Ministers attending the meeting, today’s Arctic Council foreign ministers meeting has ended with no plans for binding...

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