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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Blog from the fog

Last night around 1pm, my whole cabin was suddenly flooded with light and it was not the Aurora Borealis this time. It was the coastguard of Greenland,...
Posted by lisavickers - 27 August, 2010 - 23:28

Drilling for oil and hosing down icebergs

As images and video come in to the office from the Esperanza, the one thing that has amazed everyone is the lengths to which Cairn Energy will go (indeed,...
Posted by jamie - 26 August, 2010 - 16:41

BP are out, but the race is still on.

So it's official: BP are out of the arctic oil race. Word is that our confrontation with Cairn Energy is scaring off the oil giant. In the words of a senior...
Posted by jamess - 26 August, 2010 - 10:23

A video of life on the Esperanza

We finally managed to upload the video of the crew that our videographer Stephen Nugent made. The internet connection via satellite is pretty terrible up...
Posted by lisavickers - 26 August, 2010 - 09:25

How many Arctic cowboys does it take to lasso an iceberg?

Will Rose, independent photographer who regularly works with Greenpeace. He writes from the Esperanza... We’re in and out of internet range now so I’m not...
Posted by jamess - 25 August, 2010 - 12:24

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