Back story: A couple days before Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a UK judge ruled that "An Inconvenient Truth" can be shown in schools. The judged described the film as, "broadly accurate". However, the judge also decided students should g... Read more >

Up to one-fifth of the world's CO2 emissions come from deforestation and Indonesia has the highest rates of deforestation on the planet. Over the past weeks Greenpeace has been setting up the Forest Defenders Camp, in Sumatra, Indonesia, as part of ou... Read more >

Times mag has presented a list of environmental heroes, including Al Gore, Wanhari Mathaai, Chip Giller, Frederic Hauge, and our very own Von! I met Von some years ago in the US, and I've always been impressed by his willingness to get his hands dirt... Read more >

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highly radioactive element Cesium-137, during radiation safety training in Spain. The Cesium is in marshes near the El Tinto River, 500 metres from the city of Huelva, and its 145,... Read more >

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, the environmental group sai...

Tracy just sent in a great update for Greenpeace India's Ban the Bulb blog, which is covering the Rainbow Warrior's visit. Tracy's normally spends her days deskbound in the Greenpeace UK office, but she's taken a break from all that's familiar to joi... Read more >

When we released our iPhone testing results that revealed toxic chemicals in the iPhone, chemicals that other phone makers have removed, we expected the news to travel. Two days after the release there's been loads of coverage, especially online, vary... Read more >

Now my parents own a Prius, so when I saw the headline Toyota is pushing for 'more modest' proposed fuel economy standards in the US, via the Guardian blog. I took action on the NRDC site. I got an autoreply from which was quit... Read more >

Today, over 15,000 blogs with a combined reach of over 12 million have pledged to blog something about the environment. What are they all talking about? Well, bloggers being bloggers, all kinds of stuff. Lots of tips for greening yourself up. Favo... Read more >

Yesterday's International Herald Tribune had an excellent story about why a "peace" award went to an environmental activist like Al Gore and scientists studying the physics behind climate change: Read more >

The Nobel Peace Prize committee made a powerful statemen...

The world really is a messed up place sometimes. Today, six Greenpeace climate activists in India were denied bail; they are spending the weekend in jail. The ruling happened at pretty much the same time as Al Gore and the IPCC jointly won the Nobel P... Read more >

The scientists and the politician turned activist. I suspect the Nobel Committee thought long and hard about the pairing, the order and the issue of climate change before making today's announcement. That one of the world's most trusted and reputable ... Read more >

Today we launched the Great Whale Trail, following the migration of humpback whales from the warm tropical waters of the South Pacific, where they breed, to the icy Southern Ocean around Antarctica, where they feed. And we're doing it via satellite ... Read more >

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Sadly, as has already been pointed out, acting is not my strong suit. Making this spoof was both fun and grueling. I actually gained some new respect for professional actors. And as usual, the underlying... Read more >

It's been a busy couple of days here in the UK. Yesterday morning, Greenpeace volunteers took over Kingsnorth coal fired power station - potentially the site for the UK's first new coal fired power station in over 30 years. (Yes, just as the world urg... Read more >