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A journey across Russia’s desolate oil region
“I wonder why it reminds me Mordor so much,” our videographer, Vitya, asks. “Because it looks like the Eye of Sauron,” I reply.
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Greenpeace’s response to Dutch Insurance company, Aegon, divesting from tar sands
"This is an important signal to investors and the oil industry. Now it is up to other banks to follow Aegon’s example and quit the dirtiest oil in the world."
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Greenpeace investigation reveals Shell, Total, and other oil majors using illegal toxic waste dumps in Patagonia
"With climate scientists warning that the world has just 12 years to cut fossil fuel use by 50%, it is madness to spend billions of dollars fracking Patagonia into oblivion."
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Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?
"Oil industry disinformation has unnecessarily confused the biophysical fact of peak oil."
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We’re exploring the Great Southern Reef to save it from Big Oil
The Great Barrier Reef is famous around the world. But hardly anyone’s heard of Australia’s system of pristine cold-water reefs we’ve been exploring...The Great Southern Reef.
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Greenpeace reveals unseen footage from Australia’s threatened Great Southern Reef
“Not only is it a place where endangered southern right whales birth their young, and home to other species like dolphins, sea lions, and fur seals, but every time we scratch below the surface, we discover a region teeming with new undocumented life."
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2 million people defended the Amazon Reef — and won
This decision sends a powerful message to governments and companies all over the world: the movement to end the age of oil will continue to grow.
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Brazilian environmental agency denies licence for Total to drill for oil near the Amazon Reef
“This announcement is a stunning victory for people power, and further evidence that the age of oil is on its way out. More than two million Amazon Reef defenders from all around the world stood up against Total’s reckless plans to drill for oil near this unique and biologically significant area, and today Ibama did…
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More than 400,000 call on banks to protect the climate and not fund dirty pipelines
“These 400,000 signatures show a growing global demand for banks and financial institutions to take urgent action against the threat of climate change. Banks must act on their commitments to the Paris Agreement. It is irresponsible for banks to provide funding to companies that operate dirty oil pipelines when we know such projects have no…
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New satellite data analysis reveals world’s biggest NO2 emissions hotspots
“Just as we have nowhere to hide from the dirty air impacting our daily lives, so too do the polluters have nowhere to hide."