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Deadly storms, deadly addiction

19 days after hurricane ‘Katrina’ hit, devastation is evident, with villages and towns still flooded with contaminated water from the oil industries. Local residents and officials blame a ruptured Shell pipeline for spreading oil through marshes and communities down river from New Orleans. Enlarge Image

Katrina - a natural and unnatural disaster

Greenpeace extends its sympathies to the people of New Orleans, southern Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama who have lost so much in the wake of Katrina.

Trailer park homes were completely destroyed by hurricane Charlie in 2004. Enlarge Image

Storm Warnings Intensify

As this season’s hurricanes slam into our coastlines, MIT scientists have hit us with a dose of reality: global warming is to blame. If you thought that hurricanes were creating greater damage, it hasn’t been your imagination. And the most distressing news is it’s only going to get worse.

Smoke stacks of the Mae Moh coal power plant. Villagers living near by have respiratory problems due to the air pollution and acid rain is damaging the surrounding agricultural land. Coal power stations emit huge amounts of pollution including gasses like CO2 that cause global warming. Enlarge Image

Enormous climate fig leaf

Top climate bad guys, the US and Australian governments, have unveiled their own shiny new pact to allegedly save the climate. Our climate guru Stephanie Tunmore exposes the announcement for what it really is.

Greenpeace activists disrupt coal loading at the world's largest coal port with the message to the world about Australia's contribution to global climate change and to demand that Australia 'quit coal' and move to sustainable renewable energy. Enlarge Image

Climate boomerang

In the glow of a warm, still morning, the Rainbow Warrior slipped into the harbour of the world's biggest coal port and dropped anchor to shut down coal exports for 5 hours in Newcastle, Australia.

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Help us predict global warming

Want to make your computer more useful than just reading e-mail, playing solitare and googling yourself? Within a few minutes you can have your computer crunching numbers to help predict global warming.

George Bush is Singin' in the Rain in this Greenpeace mockery of US inaction on climate change. Enlarge Image

Climate change in India

Right now, representatives of the world's governments are sitting in Argentina discussing climate change. But while they're talking, global warming is already distrupting people's lives. Here's a report from Greenpeace activist Matilda Bradshaw about what she saw recently in the Bay of Bengal.

Greenpeace ark in Buenos Aires illustrates danger of inaction on climate change. Enlarge Image

Uncharted waters for the Climate?

Politicians from around the world are gathering in Argentina to discuss climate change. We have unveiled our own 'Climate Ark' in the centre of Buenos Aires to illustrate the urgent need for action.

Jorge Quinteros at the HPS31 glacier viewpoint holding the photo taken during his expedition in 1955 showing the extent of the melt. Enlarge Image

Patagonia revisited

The icefields in Patagonia are suffering from the fastest glacial retreat on Earth caused by global warming. Jorge Quinteros who first visited the area during an expedition 50 years ago, joined the Artic Sunrise to witness firsthand the speed of the devastation.

Camel owner Baoyin Culu says prayers at the place where his last camel died. All of his 80 camels died due to desertification in the region. Enlarge Image

Desertification in Inner Mongolia

Each year for the last few years, the winds of March or April bring the desert to Beijing. No ordinary storms, these sun-darkening blasts shift and deposit millions of tonnes of sand across the city, into Tianjin and onwards, over the water to the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The dust storms, known in China as 'Yellow Dragons', have been increasing in frequency over the last decades.

Climate change is threatening coral reefs worldwide. Enlarge Image

Save Great Barrier Reef

Australia, home of the Great Barrier Reef, is the last nation on Earth that you'd expect to be knowingly destroying coral habitats. But that's just what will happen if the state of Queensland approves an expansion in shale oil operations -- unless you help stop them.

Greenpeace activist Erika Augustinsson (Swedish), comparing a photo of Blomstrandbreen (1928) with the present situation. Enlarge Image

Glaciers melt before our eyes

If you could join the Greenpeace time ship and travel back 100 years, what would you see? You would be lucky to see one of the early cars, you would likely see mountains of coal and the beginnings of our fossil fuel dependence. And if you could travel deep within the Arctic circle you would see snow and ice which today is only a distant memory in fading photographs.

Scientists aboard Greenpeace ship make startling discovery: Greenland's glaciers are melting faster than anticipated. Enlarge Image

Going, Going, Gone?

In a stunning discovery aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, scientists found new evidence that Greenland’s glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate. It's just more evidence that Global warming is no longer on the horizon, it has arrived at our doorstep, and if you live in a coastal city, that's not just a figure of speech.

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