Stop Deep Sea Drilling

Greenpeace campaigner Truls Gulowsen talks with Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International development. Greenpeace has invited OSPAR-nations (Protecting and conserving the North-East Atlantic and its resources) to declare their support for a ban on offshore oil drilling. More information.

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Stop Deep Sea Drilling

Oil Spills - the true cost of fossil fuels.

BREAKING NEWS: Nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out of Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus pipeline into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood causing the evacuation of 22 homes last Friday. The pipeline originates in Patoka, Illinois, and carries crude oil to the Texas Gulf Coast from Western Canada. Greenpeace USA has the story.

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Are environmentalists smoking dope, or is the IEA just confused?

Blog entry by Brian Blomme | November 14, 2011 1 comment

On November 9th, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its latest World Energy Outlook and announced that changes need to be made in the world’s energy infrastructure by 2017 if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Taking action against coal in South Africa

Blog entry by dwalsh | November 7, 2011 8 comments

With the COP17 in Durban coming up later this month, Greenpeace activists took action this morning inside the construction site of South African utility firm ESKOM’s latest colossal coal-fired power plant, Kusile. Kusile, which is near...

Greenpeace photographer Daniel Beltra wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year award

Blog entry by John Novis | October 20, 2011 2 comments

Today, I have the honour of congratulating Greenpeace photographer Daniel Beltra on becoming the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year . Daniel made his winning picture for Greenpeace, of oil-soaked brown pelicans...

2011 Green Game Changers

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | September 30, 2011 1 comment

The Huffington Post has been kind enough to include me in their list of game changers for 2011. It really is an honour to see myself in the company of such amazing and inspiring people – all of whom are doing fantastic work. ...

No oil in the Arctic for Cairn, but hazardous chemicals aplenty


Blog entry by Bex, Greenpeace UK | September 29, 2011

Yesterday brought the news that yet another Cairn well off Greenland - the sixth so far - has come up dry . The Delta-1 well will be plugged and abandoned and Cairn now has to pin its hopes for this year's drilling season on two...

The World’s Biggest Carbon Bomb

Blog entry by Rex Weyler | September 20, 2011 13 comments

Deep Green is Rex Weyler's monthly column, reflecting on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own. And the fuses that threaten to set it off Three...

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice

Image | September 7, 2011 at 13:44

The crew of the Greenpeace icebreaker Arctic Sunrise help artist John Quigley recreate da Vinci's sketch The Vitruvian Man, from copper on the Arctic sea ice.

Verdict: Cairn's oil spill plan is outlandish, simplistic and "wholly inadequate"

Blog entry by Bex - Greenpeace UK | August 31, 2011 1 comment

Earlier this month, after more than 100,000 of you asked Cairn Energy to open up its Arctic oil spill response plan to public scrutiny, the government of Greenland stepped in and published it . The verdict is now in. Veteran marine...

Greenpeace USA executive director joins hundreds arrested at the White House to...

Blog entry by Josh S | August 30, 2011 4 comments

This week, hundreds of activists – including Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford – were arrested as part of a protest against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The protesters, many wearing ‘Environmentalist...

The Frozen Waltz

Blog entry by Henning Reinton | August 30, 2011 8 comments

Ever had that dream where your house moved while you were sleeping in your bed? Where you wake up and walk out the door to find that your house has pulled up its roots and drifted down the valley to where the river meets the sea? ...

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