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GLOBAL STARS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE ARCTIC

Media release | June 21, 2012 at 11:00

Rock stars, Hollywood actors, Polar explorers, business leaders and environmentalists have joined forces to launch an unprecedented bid for a global sanctuary in the Arctic. The group is demanding that oil drilling and unsustainable fishing be...

Greenpeace delegation boards Arctic oil rig demanding missing spill plan

Greenpeace delegation boards Arctic oil rig demanding missing spill plan

Blog by Nick Young | June 4, 2011 2 comments

It never really gets dark here in the Arctic but in the soft silver light of the early morning five inflatable speedboats left the side of the Esperanza. They carried a delegation of eighteen activists and headed for the giant Leiv...

Cairn calls in the navy then wields a legal lump hammer to stop us protecting the Arctic

Cairn calls in the navy then wields a legal lump hammer to stop us protecting the Arctic

Blog by Ben Ayliffe | June 3, 2011 3 comments

Last night, Hannah and Luke, our two brave climbers, were removed from the Arctic survival pod that had been suspended from the underside of the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson oil rig, here off the coast of Greenland, for the last...

Activists arrested and pod captured but this is not the end

Activists arrested and pod captured but this is not the end

Blog by Ben Stewart | June 2, 2011 4 comments

Climbers working with the Danish navy have just broken into our pod suspended from the Cairn Energy oil rig here in the Arctic seas off Greenland and arrested the two Greenpeace climbers inside. Hannah and Luke had been...

Vicious Circle

Vicious Circle

Video | June 21, 2012 at 11:18

Shell is due to begin exploratory drilling at two offshore sites in the Alaskan Arctic in the coming weeks. If Shell is successful this summer, an Arctic oil rush will be sparked and the push to carve up the region will accelerate. Russian oil...

Not only is another world possible, she’s on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Not only is another world possible, she’s on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her...

Blog by Kumi Naidoo | May 14, 2013

Opening remarks at the Peoples’ Arctic Conference in Kiruna, Sweden: (Not interested in reading all the way through? You can listen to Kumi Naidoo’s speech here). Greetings my friends, and welcome to the conference, the Peoples’ Arctic: Unified...

Action to stop Arctic oil Drilling

Action to stop Arctic oil Drilling

Blog by Phil Radford | June 4, 2011 19 comments

Early Saturday morning, eighteen Greenpeace activists climbed the Leiv Eiriksson, a controversial oil rig that is set to begin drilling in the pristine and freezing Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland. The Greenpeace...

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