Today is World Refugee day. A day to focus worldwide attention on the the estimated 40 million people world wide uprooted by violence and persecution. But there is also a new kind of refugee. The climate refugee. In the words of Antonio Guterres, UN... Read more >

Alison writes:

I thought you might be interested in reading and possibly linking to the following article on the effect of climate change on fisheries, published today in the Asbury Park Press.

Of note is the historic decision of the North Pacific Fishe... Read more >

The prankster Yes Men have hoaxed again. This time they spoke at a big oil industry exposition posing as representatives from the Natural Petroleum Council and ExxonMobil. Their proposed solution to reducing dependence on overseas oil and dealing wi... Read more >

The numbers are in and sadly they weren't quite what we were hoping for. Despite the huge amount of emails you sent to MEPs, asking them to support a ban on inefficient light bulbs across the EU (and thank you for that!), not enough signed up to adopt... Read more >

The world's largest non-state oil company lashed out today saying it really is worried about climate change and just wants to help in its own way. From the Guardian article: Read more >

ExxonMobil criticised Greenpeace, the Kyoto treaty and the European carbon tr...

Are there really people out there who still need convincing that we have to act on climate change?

Join the 7 step climate campaign. It’s a start.

(An extra + to this man for not making it a bloody boring power point presentation. Am I tired of tho... Read more >

This month thousands of people in Indonesia have been showing their opposition to nuclear power with a massive protest yesterday in the Kudus regency against government plans to build Indonesia's first new nuclear power plant in the nearby Jepara rege... Read more >

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I was a child of the 60s, and the place where I spent most of my youth was upstate New York in the United States.Largely agricultural, the area was heavily sprayed with pesticides. The marshes at the north e... Read more >

That chilling (irony intended) headline is from a New Scientist article someone just sent me (thanks Tom). From the story: Read more >

The world's recent carbon dioxide emissions are growing more rapidly than even the worst-case climate scenario used by the Inter...

Update from Daniel at the summit -

As G8 leaders are just sitting down for their last lunch, a special G8 menu has mysteriously appeared at the G8 media centre. They have served us nice cake and coffee here over the last few days. But the G8 leaders cl... Read more >

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Here's the statement from our team at the summit:

Greenpeace condemned G8 leaders for failing to live up to their historic responsibility for climate change by not agreeing to keep mean temperature rise below 2 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels... Read more >

Update: Just found more footage and photos on der Spiegel.

Update 2: Just got good news, some severe bruising and one activist will have to stay in the hospital a bit longer - but no serious injuries. The boats and 19 people remain in police custody.

C... Read more >

Officially, it's only day two of the summit, but there's already been a tons of political drama. For those of you just coming to the story, Greenpeace UK has a good overview up on their site. Here's an excerpt: Read more >

So the sleeves are being rolled up on a...

I'm always very excited when the Apple store goes offline and Apple is presenting its new products but on Tuesday I was even more since I was really curious to see what Apple would have offered after the Greener Apple statement. They disappointed me l... Read more >