Sing along with Greenpeace!

President Obama, in his speech at Carnegie Mellon University last summer, said, "The time has come once and for all for this nation to fully embrace a clean energy future...The next generation will not be held hostage to ... Read more >

This morning, as we were preparing the ship for the next leg of our journey, we got the news that another oil rig, the Vermillion 380, has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, risking the lives of at least 13 workers who were rescued from the site.   

Ri... Read more >

Burger King is 'Cutter King' no longer!

Don’t blink or you’ll miss news from the fast-moving campaign to protect the Paradise Forests!  Last week, after Greenpeace campaigned from New York to California, Burger King said it was “thoroughly examining ... Read more >

I've just returned from the Civicus 9th World Assembly in Montreal – and I took away a great deal of new hope and energy from the meeting.

The assembly is, if you like, a miniature version of the kind of coalition on climate justice I would like to s... Read more >

The water is the deepest blue. There are clumps of Sargasso all round.  Where they are bigger than one square foot, they have schools of tiny fish, hiding from the sun. As we approach with the ship, the schools start to swim away, but quickly swim ... Read more >

Today, as news of the discovery of a 22-mile plume of oil droplets is revealed in a report in the Journal, Science  the first leg of the Greenpeace expedition on board the Arctic Sunrise ended.  The scientists, Drs. Jo Lopez and Chuck Messing from Nov... Read more >

Just some days before I came out to join Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise on August 4, headlines from a NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) press conference said that ‘the vast majority of the oil from the BP spill has either evapo... Read more >

I have a special t-shirt.  Actually I have quite a few special t-shirts but this one is particularly appropriate.  It has a picture of a Greenpeace ship sailing in an oil slick and the slogan reads ‘Save the Gulf’. 

The t-shirt is actually 19 years o... Read more >

Paul Horsman , on board the Arctic Sunrise in the Gulf of Mexico, is a long-time Greenpeace campaigner and an oil specialist. He is currently the campaign director for TckTckTck.

It is just after 5 o’clock in the morning.  I’ve just had a slice of ... Read more >

This is the second entry in a series about fossil fuels subsidies and renewable energy feed in tariffs (the first entry is here). Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Tobias Boßmann looks at the difference between the two - and there are quite a l... Read more >