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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Save the Arctic or lose the polar bears

So I was thinking about polar bears the other day. They're not my normal topic for musing while dodging London traffic on my bicycle, but I was thinking...
Posted by KatieS - 6 November, 2009 - 11:17

Video: Haunting icescapes from Arctic expedition

There's some stunning photography in this final video from the Arctic Sunrise's arctic expedition. Ice sheets, icebergs, glaciers and (yes) polar...
Posted by jamie - 29 September, 2009 - 13:04

Video: updates from the Arctic Sunrise polar expedition

Two more powerful video blogs from Eric Phillips, polar explorer and survival guide aboard the Arctic Sunrise in Northern Greenland. With years...
Posted by jossc - 2 September, 2009 - 12:26

Greenland's shrinking glaciers

The Arctic Sunrise is in Greenland to survey melting glaciers and observe the effects of climate change. In this latest update from the tour, Indian...
Posted by jossc - 25 August, 2009 - 11:04

Greenpeace admits: BBC got it wrong about arctic sea ice melting

You may have already seen this on our Making Waves blog, but for the sake of completeness (and to help demolish the climate denial zombie that's risen once...
Posted by jamie - 20 August, 2009 - 16:18

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