In the Greenpeace office, staff have developed a bad habit. We take our seats, switch our computers on and click on the bookmark to the National Snow and Ice Data Center website. Today was like any other day, except that today the extent of sea ice ... Read more >

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Final Update  - 5 am CET: Their final moment was a picture of determination and they're down - but not out. For five days and nights the crew of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise confronted the Russian oil gia... Read more >

Dear Russian friends,

You may be aware that this morning at approximately 4am, five activists and I scaled the Prirazlomnaya oil platform to take peaceful action against Gazprom’s work in the Arctic, to highlight the dangers of its plans to drill h...

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Prirazlomnaya.

It’s certainly a mouthful, but it’s also the new name – and face – of Arctic destruction today. This giant Russian platform is set to be the first to try and commercially... Read more >

A heart-warming David and Goliath-type story from our oceans campaign in West Africa (with a happy ending).

The local fishing community in Thiaroye, Dakar, now really has a reason to dance. Since the new Senegalese government took action to stop ov... Read more >

"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think." -- Gregory Bateson, An Ecology of Mind.

Piecemeal ecology does not work.

Forty years have passed since the founding of Greenpeace a... Read more >

It isn’t the first time I’ve been to Usinsk in the very north of Russia, so I shouldn’t be surprised — but once again, I’m shocked. I was here for the first time back in May, where I, together with my colleagues from Greenpeace in Russia, witnessed an... Read more >

Genetically engineered (GE) food is a hot button topic in India. What happens here often sends ripples throughout the GE debate worldwide, but what happened last week is surely a major milestone.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, m... Read more >

China’s huge thirst for energy is going to increase the scarcity of water already threatening people in western China and Inner Mongolia.

A planned major expansion of coal mines, coal-fired electricity plants and coal-based chemical plants in northwe... Read more >

Greenpeace Russia has uncovered a startling secret that Gazprom has been keeping from the world: its oil spill response plan for the Prirazlomnaya oil platform has expired, meaning any drilling the company undertakes in this part of the Arctic would b... Read more >

Today marks my third visit to Russia, the last being in 2006 when I had the privilege of meeting President Putin to talk about the freedoms with which NGOs can operate in this country. In a curious turn of events, and some six years later, both Putin ... Read more >

Today, I am sitting in a big event hall in the Busan Lotte Hotel, attending the 8^th Scientific Committee meeting of the Pacific Tuna Commission (WCPFC SC8). Over 150 scientists and representatives from the members of WCPFC, including those with big ... Read more >

The day was the 25th of July. The weather was not stable and hands were shaking. This was it, the first action lead by Czech direct dialoguers. The aim was to show Shell that even its employees have enough sense to acknowledge that the Arctic needs pr... Read more >

Try and imagine what it would be like to wake up one day, look outside the window and discover that your home has disappeared.

 This is what happened in Manila on Tuesday, when more than half of the sprawling metropolis was submerged in floodwaters. Read more >

This year, as we've been working closely with UK small scale fishermen, one thing has become abundantly clear: the EU Common Fisheries Policy, or CFP, is not working. Full stop.

It's not working for fishermen in the communities along our coasts; it's... Read more >