Oshwe is a forest community of around 22 000 people living deep in the indigenous rainforests of the DRC. Ringed by thick foliage and rivers, it can only be reached by plane from Kinshasa. There is no electricity in Oshwe, and no...

As the official COP17 climate negotiations got underway in Durban this morning , a radically different meeting was taking shape on a grassy mound just outside the main conference venue, sandwiched between three busy roads. The...

Kenyan Energy Minister claims the accident is one of the worst accidents ever in Kenya’s energy sector. On Monday, a leaking gasoline pipeline in an industrial area of Kenya's capital exploded, turning part of a slum into an...

Last week I attended a Latin American youth meeting at the International Conference Centre here in Durban. Although English is my first language and my day to day medium of communication, I was surprisingly very comfortable to be...

Warning : this blog contains images and video footage that may upset you. Recently word came to our Greenpeace office in Indonesia that a Sumatran tiger was stuck in an animal trap in the province of Riau. It had been snared for...

As I lay in my sleeping bag, listening to the rain pound on my tent, I thought about what I had gone through in less than a month and felt I could write a whole lifetime story. Just a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my living room...

The other morning I was riding to work, and as I passed a car, a hand reached out to throw a cigarette box out the window. The car sped off and I stopped to pick up the litter, frustrated by the driver’s callousness. For the rest of...

Fracking has been a hot topic this year – and for good reason. Here’s a quick update on the situation. ( Click here for more info on what fracking entails) Latest Developments When we last spoke about the issue of...

People from countries around the world have been very excited to get involved with our campaign to Facebook off coal, and onto renewable energies. The latest (very 'hip') instalment to the campaign comes out of Israel, where one...

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 ...

The first week-long session of the climate negotiations has come to a close. So, what ended up on the agenda for the week? Short answer: lots and lots of talking. It was a pretty telling week, with the geo-politics of the negotiations...

In the opinion piece " Mania for renewable energy has soon to come up against reality ", Phillip Lloyd says renewable energy is not only a pipe dream, but that it is unnecessary. He could not be more wrong Prof Lloyd qualifies...

This is part two of the Afican Voices tour through Europe, to catch-up on part one, click here . What is the African Voices Tour? As European waters have become increasingly overfished, massive European fishing vessels have...

Extreme weather events will be more frequent in a warming world. Anyone reading the news about recent extreme weather events will understandably be confused by the varied statements regarding the attribution of these events to...

You know that oil spill response plan that Cairn has been refusing to publish? The one that tens of thousands of you asked to see? The one we  went to the Arctic and  to Cairn's Edinburgh HQ to look for? The one they were so worried...

'The Advanced Energy [R]evolution' is a detailed and practical blueprint for cutting carbon emissions, replacing fossil fuels and nuclear power with renewable energy, and growing the economy. It is one of the most comprehensive...

The good news is that senior energy department officials have been facing pressure from MPs to cut South Africa's dependence on coal. The bad news is that a few MPs seem to think that nuclear energy can help to move beyond coal power.

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 ...

It was the second wave which finally capsized the small boat, throwing the fishermen onto the beach. Chaos followed, I heard screams, and saw women watching the men as they tried to get the ten-meter long wooden boat back under control...

In the midst of all that's going on in Japan, we managed to sit one of our (extremely busy) nuclear issue experts down and ask him a few of the top questions people have been asking.  If you don't find the answer you're looking for...

The Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear crisis continues, marked by confusion and a lack of information and transparency. Today, our team of nuclear experts and monitors followed reports of grey smoke coming out of the spent fuel pool of...

Severe drought could turn the Amazon rainforest into a source of carbon emissions contributing to climate change, rather than a carbon sink absorbing emissions. This is one of the alarming findings of a new study featured in ...

I think it's outrageous that Shell sponsors part of the environment section on the National Geographic website. What makes the situation even worse is that right beneath one of Shell's adverts on the page is National Geographic's...