By guest contributor Matt OwensClimate scientist and leading expert on Arctic climate change, Jennifer Francis, says that while she would not attribute the recent cold that griped the US to global warming, […]
Gazprom’s Arctic oil rig. By Anders LorenzenDid our key predictions for 2013 come true, and what are we expecting from 2014? The Arctic While the 2013 Arctic summer sea ice loss was […]
In addition to highlighting the serious threat climate change poses, the aim of this blog is to spread news of some of the amazing positive stories about action on climate change around […]
Photo credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace. You may have noticed that we have extensively covered the Greenpeace Arctic protest story about which 28 activists and two journalists have been detained in Murmansk […]
Greenpeace activists outside the Russian embassy in Wellington, New Zealand. Phot credit: Greenpeace New Zealand. By Anders Lorenzen Conservation group the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) said in a press statement yesterday that […]
The Russian coastguard holds Greenpeace activists at gunpoint. Photo credit: Greenpeace. By Anders Lorenzen Thursday afternoon environmental campaign group Greenpeace peaceful protest against Arctic drilling took a violent turn as the Russian […]
Reindeer herders contemplate the devastation caused by onshore oil spills on their land. Credit: Greenpeace Russia By Maria Favorskaya, Greenpeace Russia A trip to reindeer herders’ family in Siberia For centuries Siberia […]
By Dima Litvinov, Greenpeace Campaigner Last week we brought you a blog about the current tour by the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise, which is peacefully protesting and observing the escalation of […]
MY Arctic Sunrise. Photo credit: Greenpeace By Anders Lorenzen Russia has denied environmental campaign organisation Greenpeace’s icebreaker the MY Arctic Sunrise access to the increasingly busy Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the […]
Chinese MV Xue Long in the Arctic waters. By Anders Lorenzen At the recent Arctic Council meeting which this year took place in Kiruna, Sweden representations from the eight Arctic countries: Canada, […]
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