It’s five minutes past midnight on board the Arctic Sunrise. The sun never sets at this time of year; instead it casts long late shadows on the ice, and turns the sea water and icebergs buttery yellows and infinite blues.

 Some of us should be asleep... Read more >

We've ramped up our action on export coal as leaders meet for the Pacific Islands Forum in Cairns.

At 6.30am this morning, Greenpeace activists shut down coal loading at Hay Point Coal Terminal in Mackay, Queensland – one of the largest coal export ter... Read more >

Our activists in Australia shut down Abbot Point coal export terminal in Queensland yesterday - as the Pacific Islands Forum began in Cairns. They are demanding that Kevin Rudd stops expanding Australia’s coal industry and risking the future of Pacifi... Read more >

Greenpeace in India has joined the community of Alibag, in Maharashtra, who are fighting four proposed thermal power plants in the area. Around 1200 villagers stood in the formation of a life sized windmill near Khidki village, Alibag, in what could w... Read more >

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Eric Philips is an Australian polar explorer and adventurer, who brings his expertise on the ice to the Arctic Sunrise for our expedition to bear witness to the Arctic meltdown. Here he's having a look back at an adventure from a couple of weeks ago, and the resourcefulness needed to pull it off: kayaking down the melt stream of a glacier!- Dave

It's not often that I balk at an adventure, particularly if it involves ice or a kayak or both, but the suggestion that we paddle a river flowing on the surface of the Petermann Glacier brought my heart rate up a notch or two. "The surface is too rough to ski over so why don't we paddle the river with the radar?" suggested our resident glaciologist, Alun Hubbard. A lecturer in glaciology at Aberystwyth University, this swashbuckling Welshman was no stranger to adventure, with Antarctic sailing and mountaineering as two of his many outdoor pursuits. "A stretch of about 25km ends just upstream of The Whirlpool and should get us a really good fix on Petermann's basal topography."

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Jotham Napat, Director at the National Meteorolgical Service in Vanuatu

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Our largest and fastest ship, Esperanza, is now heading towards Cairns, Australia for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting being held next week.

After nearly two months in the Pacific, working with Pacific Islanders on the frontline of climate change, the Greenpeace crew have an urgent message for the Australian government and the other regional leaders attending the meeting.

We have urgent messages from the frontline of climate change to deliver. While in the Cook Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu for the ‘Pacific Voices’ ship tour, Greenpeace met with government officials, environmental NGOs, community leaders, schools and church groups to talk about climate change and the devastating impacts it is having on people’s lives in the Pacific.

Our Pacific team talked to mothers, fathers, chiefs, children, teachers, activists, scientists, doctors and heads of state. They spoke of rising sea levels, soil erosion, extreme weather events, changing weather patterns, and warming sea temperatures affecting fish stocks and coral reefs.

Read more about this over on our Australia Pacific website and watch the video of a Mrs Tuakan Neiao, a Pacific mother of 10 and leader of the Women’s Federation on the remote island of Nassau, in the Cook Islands.

As a new report released by Oxfam, estimated that 75 million people from the Asia-Pacific region could be looking for new homes by mid-century - three Pacific Islanders from three different nations are on a national speaking tour of Australia to tell people of the effects which the changing climate is having on their homes. They will also be at the PIF meeting next week with us. You can read their stories over on news.com.au's GreenBlog. Read more >

[We may not have seen Petermann Glacier for a while, but we're still lying in wait as more of it fractures every day. Meanwhile, the crew are still compiling their memories of the glacier. Here's a some impressions of Petermann Glacier by the 3rd mate... Read more >

Oscar, our celebrity stalker, was in Austria recently at a nuclear power station that's gone green. He writes:

On Friday night. I was at Zwentendorf, a small town in lower Austria, more precisely in a nuclear power station built in the 1970’s but neve... Read more >

Maybe you've spent some time thinking about the contribution you could make to stopping climate change. Changing energy providers? Actually getting the bike out of the garage and riding it to work - instead of thinking about doing it?

Well, Rhys Darby ... Read more >

The Observer reported yesterday that the US Army has been sitting on satellite images showing dramatic ice melt in the Arctic in recent years.

This begs a few questions. Isn't an army's primary goal to protect the civilians in a country? Can't they see... Read more >