On Friday, peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise  woke up in a freezing jail cell in Russia for trying to protect the Arctic and fight global warming. At the same time the UN panel on Climate Change released its...

UPDATE OCT 2: Today, 13 activists and a freelance video journalist were formally charged with piracy under Article 227 of the Russian Criminal Code. The maximum sentence, if convicted, is 15 years in a Russian jail. Greenpeace...

The fight over the Arctic's oil and gas reserves has intensified - but what is actually going on? We've put together a short Q&A.; What's happened? Russian authorities summoned the Dutch ambassador to Moscow (the Sunrise flies a...

Our researchers just discovered a very dangerous collision in the Russian Arctic. Last week, a tanker that was not built for freezing waters was 'holed' by an ice floe and had to wait for seven days for help. Yep — holed, as in its...

As football fans already know, next year is the World Cup. And this time, it’s Russia’s turn to host the world’s most popular sporting event.  With the countdown now underway to the opening match, Greenpeace supporters asked us to...