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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It's our birthday and we'll go beyond oil if we want to

The first Greenpeace ship - the Phyllis Cormack - in 1971 © Greenpeace / Robert Keziere Today is the 39th birthday of Greenpeace and we have just arrived...
Posted by lisavickers - 15 September, 2010 - 16:58 -

Captain's Blog: New generation

Waldermar, captain of the Esperanza, writes about his personal motivations for bringing the ship to the Arctic...  I'm from South America, the land of...
Posted by lisavickers - 9 September, 2010 - 16:40 -

Leaving the Arctic under northern lights and shooting stars

The Northern Lights above the Esperanza © Will Rose / Greenpeace We had a fairly quiet weekend on board the Esperanza - especially compared to the "all...
Posted by lisavickers - 6 September, 2010 - 14:40 -

Video: Esperanza to climb team, over

This was the scene on the Esperanza's bridge as Luke called through to Sim on the Stena Don for the last time, as the climbers prepared to leave the oil...
Posted by jamie - 2 September, 2010 - 15:46 -

"Well, that was dramatic" - watching our activists from the ship

Ben writes about this morning's events from the Esperanza... Well, that was dramatic. Yesterday afternoon, the seas started churning and our huge banner on...
Posted by jamess - 2 September, 2010 - 11:10 -

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