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Oil

Topic | 27 May, 2010 at 19:33

Deepwater Horizon, an offshore drilling rig operated by BP, blew up on April 20th 2010, and sank two days later. The oil spill that ensued is the largest accidental spill in history.

Climate Change and the Insurance Industry

Publication | 24 May, 1993 at 2:00

Hurricane Andrew caused more than US$ 16 billion in damages in the United States. In this 1993 report, Greenpeace policy advisor Jeremy Leggett assessed the options for insurance industry action in the face of mounting costs for climate-related...

(Energy) Independence Day in the Gulf

Blog entry by JulietteH | 8 July, 2010

Jess Miller writes from the Gulf of Mexico: This weekend as the U.S. celebrated Independence Day, our crew in Louisiana joined the masses and also headed to the beaches and the waterways of the Gulf of Mexico. Except instead of...

Today in oil: all that is wrong with politics

Blog entry by JulietteH | 1 July, 2010 1 comment

Politicians and governments seem to be learning all the wrong lessons from the Gulf oil spill so far - or not learning anything at all. Three examples: In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal has been criticising the federal government...

Deepwater disaster blues

Video | 11 May, 2010 at 20:00

Troy Wetzel, charter boat captain of Venice, LA, takes marine conservationist Rick Steiner out in his boat to see some of the first impacts of the Deepwater disaster - the crude oil which is beginning to emulsify on the ocean's surface.

The Age of Oil is Over

Video | 19 May, 2010 at 20:00

The BP Deepwater Disaster, one month later: Greenpeace oil specialist and marine biologist Paul Horsman visits the Mississippi Delta to see first hand the oil which is beginning to wash onto the shores of delicate coastal ecosystem.

Oil on the surface

Image | 13 June, 2010 at 15:00

Patterns of oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead sit on the water off the coast of Louisiana June 13, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bayer punished in order to deter GE field trials

Blog entry by danielkramb | 16 March, 2010 2 comments

Greenpeace supporters and local farmers are harvesting the black rice variety of organic rice in Ratchaburi. © Greenpeace / Athit Perawongmetha Last week was a tough one for companies pedaling GE crops across the world. Monsanto ...

Tar balls on the beach

Image | 12 June, 2010 at 14:30

Hundreds of tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead wash up on the beaches along Grand Isle State Park on Grand Island, Louisiana.

Sand barriers on the beach

Image | 12 June, 2010 at 14:30

Booms and sand barriers are prepared as defenses against the oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead that is washing up on the beaches along Grand Isle, Louisiana.

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