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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Scott, writing his journal in the Cape Evans hut, winter 1911

“For God’s sake, look after our people”

Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September, more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first...
Posted by jossg - 18 January, 2012 - 11:47
Polars bears lounge around a VW Polo at the Brussels motor show

Cracks appear in VW ranks as polar bears invade Brussels motor show

VW has been ignoring our requests for a meeting, so we've paid a visit to its exhibition stand at the Brussels Motor Show. Or, to be more precise, dozens of...
Posted by jamie - 12 January, 2012 - 14:33
Watch the final episode of Brian the Stormtrooper - ex-VW employee

VW: Return of the Brian (video)

It's the end of the road for one of our campaign legends: Brian.Only six months ago, Brian was working for the Dark Side - an anonymous Volkswagen employee...
Posted by jamess - 22 December, 2011 - 12:09
Taking an observation at the pole

Amundsen, Antarctica and the power of impossible ambitions

As I write, this I'm looking out of my window of the Fefor hotel in Norway at a wintery landscape of mountains, forest and an ice-covered lake - the same place...
Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 19 December, 2011 - 13:41

The battle for the Frozen North: Point Hope (video)

The small Alaskan community of Point Hope - or Tikiġaq, as the Iñupiaq people call their homeland - is one of the oldest continually occupied sites in North...
Posted by bex - 7 December, 2011 - 13:45

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