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.

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Frida Bengtsson

With rights come responsibilities

I’m in sunny Stockholm this week, spring is here for sure and woolly hats and gloves are yet again stored away for next winter.  In a grand Natural...
Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 30 March, 2012 - 10:39

Approved: Shell's spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea

Today, the US Government approved Shell's oil spill response plan for the Beaufort Sea, a remote expanse of ocean that must count as one of the most wild and...
Posted by dhowells - 29 March, 2012 - 08:54

Video: Bearing Witness: Oil disaster in the Russian Arctic

In early March, our colleagues in Russia visited Noyabrsk, in the middle of the West Siberian oil fields, to bear witness to a long-lasting battle between...
Posted by bex - 28 March, 2012 - 15:31
Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska

23 years later and Shell has learned nothing from the Exxon Valdez disaster

Twenty-three years ago the Exxon Valdez ran aground at Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.  The tanker spilled eleven million gallons of oil into...
Posted by dhowells - 23 March, 2012 - 12:25
Greenpeace activists occupy a Shell-contracted icebreaker in Helsinki as it prep

Will brooms and shovels clean up the Arctic? We don’t think so.

I’m standing in one of the ports of Helsinki, Finland, to witness 20 Greenpeace Nordic activists boarding ice-breakers Fennica and Nordica. Banners haven been...
Posted by Sini Harkki - 16 March, 2012 - 09:09

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