Last month activists took bold action to stop the oil rig Leiv Eiriksson from drilling in the Arctic waters. But sadly the Greenland government has now approved Cairn Energy’s application to drill four offshore oil wells this year.
New revelations by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks show how the scramble for resources in the Arctic is sparking military tension in the region – with NATO sources worried about the potential for armed conflict between the alliance and Russia.
As fisheries ministers from around the globe meet in Brussels to discuss the future of fishing agreements between EU and foreign countries, Greenpeace Africa calls for a fairer and sustainable fishing partnership that protects the livelihoods of...
Greenpeace today criticised TEPCO and the Japanese government for continuing to downplay the seriousness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. Yesterday TEPCO admitted that a partial meltdown of the reactor 1 core at the Fukushima Daiichi...
This is part three of the Afican Voices tour through Europe, you can catch-up on the other tour diaries here: Part 1 Part 2 What is the African Voices Tour? As European waters have become increasingly overfished, massive ...
Two Greenpeace ships are in a tense stand-off with Danish navy commandos protecting an oil drilling operation in the freezing seas off Greenland. This comes as confidential UK government documents reveal that an Arctic spill would be...
Carin Energy is preparing to drill in the Arctic region, we'd like to see their oil spill response plan.
Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international...
Environmental campaigners have scaled the world’s most controversial oil rig and are hanging from the underside in an Arctic survival pod with enough food and water to stay there for ten days. Their action will prevent the rig starting dangerous...
As global emissions continue to rocket, Greenpeace activists are safe and secure in their Arctic pod, preventing Carin Energy from dangerous drilling.
A quick video made in the survival pod last night at meal time.
Last night climbers working for the Danish navy broke into our pod suspended from the Cairn Energy oil rig in the Arctic seas off Greenland. The two Greenpeace activist climbers in the pod were then arrested. Hannah and Luke had...
The greenpeace campaigners who scaled an Arctic oil rig and prevented deep water drilling off the coast of Greenland for four days have vowed to continue their campaign after being arrested by climbers believed to be from the Danish navy.
On Wednesday 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 ...
Eighteen Greenpeace activists have scaled a controversial Arctic oil rig 180km off the Greenland coast. They braved freezing seas to climb the huge legs of the rig then formed an orderly delegation to make its way to the drill manager’s cabin to...
Fourteen Greenpeace activists who boarded the giant Liev Eiriksson oil rig to ask for copy of its oil spill response plan have been arrested and flown off. Meanwhile, drilling remains suspended, as four more Greenpeace activists have taken up...
Today our fight for the Arctic moves from the frozen seas of Greenland into the courts of Amsterdam and Greenland. Following our first occupation of its oil rig at the beginning of last week Cairn filed for an injunction with...
Help us stop the Arctic oil Rush, and get all the latest updates in our efforts to stop Carin Energy from its dangerous drilling operation.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been campaigning to stop risky oil drilling in the Arctic – by taking direct action up here off the Greenland coast and by shining a light on Cairn Energy’s failure to publish its oil spill response plan...
For the African Voices tour , three West African fishermen travelled to the UK to speak out about the harsh reality of the UK's hunger for fish: while their communities rely on the seas for vital protein, industrial-sized European...
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