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© Alex Hofford / Greenpeace

The high seas pockets have long been a playground for pirate fishermen making it difficult for surrounding Pacific Island countries to manage ... Read more >

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Kumi Naidoo boards the Leiv Eiriksson

In May 2011, Greenpeace volunteers from nine countries boarded the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson rig in the freezing waters west of Greenland to demand that UK company Cairn Energy publish its plan for dealing with an oil spi... Read more >

The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the US has announced yesterday that Arctic sea ice had reached its annual minimum. It is, as we guessed last week, the second lowest extent in recorded history, just behind the all-time record from 2007.

I rem... Read more >

We sometimes feel like we're repeating ourselves when we talk about Arctic sea ice - because we are. In recent months, sea ice extent has been again reaching record lows - right now, it's at a second-low record, just behind the 2007 record. The past f... Read more >

Two things transpired yesterday in the (slightly insane) world of Arctic oil drilling.

First, oil spill expert Richard Steiner took a good look at Cairn Energy’s Greenland oil spill response plan (the one over 100,000 people demanded to see). It tu... Read more >