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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Telling oil companies the truth

Today, the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum invited the world’s biggest oil companies to a meeting in Copenhagen that could be of extreme importance...
Posted by Jon Burgwald - 1 December, 2011 - 16:01
Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord in Greenland

Cairn's Arctic misadventure ends in dismal failure

It was the biggest oil exploration campaign ever in the Arctic. It cost over a billion dollars. And Cairn has absolutely nothing to show for it. Today, at the...
Posted by bex - 30 November, 2011 - 14:03
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

We're challenging Cairn's gagging order: right to protest is as important as Cairn's right to run its business

I don't know if you read our Get Active blogs, written by our brilliant community of Greenpeace volunteers? It turns out that Cairn Energy do. Last week,...
Posted by bex - 29 November, 2011 - 12:09
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic sea ice decline breaking records over 1,000 years old

According to a new paper in Nature, sea ice in the Arctic is now declining at a pace and scale not seen for over a thousand years. It estimates that after...
Posted by ben - 25 November, 2011 - 07:00
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier

Cairn polar bear found not guilty

Back in July, if you remember, fifty Greenpeace polar bears occupied Cairn Energy's Edinburgh headquarters, looking for the company's Arctic oil spill response...
Posted by bex - 24 November, 2011 - 12:10

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