Save the Arctic

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling. As climate change melts the Arctic ice, oil companies are moving in to extract more of the fossil fuels that caused the melt in the first place. But above the Arctic circle, freezing temperatures, a narrow drilling window and a remote location mean that an oil spill would be almost impossible to deal with. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

Campaign updates

We need 30 Twitter millionaires to #FreeTheArctic30

We just found out that our friends are being charged with piracy for standing up to Gazprom. It’s an incredibly serious charge and carries a maximum sentence...
Posted by jamess - 2 October, 2013 - 11:40

The man who showed us all the true threat in the Arctic

A photo is key when it comes to bearing witness and Greenpeace has been a leading organization in visuals for over forty years. We go to the frontline of...
Posted by john_novis - 2 October, 2013 - 11:30

Free the Arctic 30, and lock up fossil fuels

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...
Posted by Truls Gulowsen - 2 October, 2013 - 11:25

Faiza: "The uncertainty is driving me crazy"

"I have no idea how this will end, how long it will take. The uncertainty is driving me crazy," writes Greenpeace campaigner Faiza Oulahsen in a letter from...
Posted by faiza_oulahsen - 2 October, 2013 - 09:50

What do the experts say?

A great number of legal experts have commented on the boarding and seizure of the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise and on the piracy charges...
Posted by bex - 2 October, 2013 - 09:29

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