Campaign Blog

Don’t blink or you’ll miss news from the fast-moving campaign to protect the Paradise Forests!  Last week, after Greenpeace campaigning from New York to California, Burger King said it was “thoroughly examining an independent a... Read more >

Last week while on holiday, I was lucky enough to spend 6 days snorkeling in the Bunaken Island National Marine Park (BINMP). The park is located in northern Sulewesi Indonesia almost right on the equator. BINMP was established in 1991 and covers a l... Read more >

The Greenpeace campaign to protect the Paradise Forests continues to heat up.  Notorious forest destroyer Sinar Mas experienced a humiliating blow last week when its contracted audit company had to publish a public “clarification” of... Read more >

You've probably seen that our ship, the Arctic Sunrise, is in the Gulf of Mexico right now on a mission to get to the truth about the oil spill and its impacts on the Gulf's ecosystems and wildlife.

You might also have seen that another one of our sh... Read more >

Today, the Oil Spill Commission is holding a day full of hearings here in Washington DC.

The Commission, charged with developing recommendations to ensure that the disastrous BP Horizon spill is never repeated, is hearing from a range of oil compa... Read more >

Yesterday was a hot hot day. Not even so much because of the weather — although it was warm. More because a couple of us spent the day on the poop deck of the Arctic Sunrise doing plankton tows.

Now, that may not seem like much, towing tiny li... Read more >

The New Yorker published a must-read expose of Charles and David Koch this week, detailing the major role that these oil billionaire brothers have played in funding organizations that misrepresent the science of climate change like the Cato Institute... Read more >

The water is the deepest blue. There are clumps of Sargasso all round.  Where they are bigger than one square foot, they have schools of tiny fish, hiding from the sun. As we approach with the ship, the schools start to swim away, but quickly sw... Read more >

The Arctic Sunrise has made it's way west across the Gulf of Mexico about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast. We're making our way to the first of a series of blue clab larvae tows scientists from Tulane will be doing to study the populations. Th... Read more >

Today, as news of the discovery of a 22-mile plume of oil droplets is revealed in a report in the Journal, Science the first leg of the Greenpeace expedition on board the Arctic Sunrise ended.  The scientists, Drs. Jo Lopez and Chuck Messing fro... Read more >

After leaving Dry Tortugas out in the Gulf, we came about 10 miles from Key West to take a few people off and put a few on board. The sponge guys left and we were happy to work with them. Now we picked up scientists Caz Taylor and Erin Grey from Tula... Read more >