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The Stars Align Over the North Pole

Posted by Josefina Skerk - 8 April 2013 at 2:47pm - Comments

Today is the day we have been all been waiting for, and we have some exciting news to share with you. When we planned this expedition, our ambition was big already — to ski to the North Pole to lower a special pod and a flag for the future to the seabed below.

VIDEO: There’s a badass in Brussels

Posted by Elena Polisano - 4 April 2013 at 10:35pm - Comments

There's something big happening in Europe right now. Politicians are debating laws that could drastically cut CO2 from cars. And less CO2 means less need for oil and a safer Arctic.

Let's smash CO2 emissions! Check out our latest video and tell our politicians that we want cleaner cars now.

Article tagged as: #savethearctic, brussels, carbon, cars, climate, co2, europe, video

The Arctic, live, in central London

Posted by sara_a - 4 April 2013 at 10:19pm - Comments

This April is a big month for the Arctic. Our expedition of young leaders making the long trek to reach the North Pole is nearly underway. When they reach the North Pole, they will lower the time capsule containing nearly 3 million names of people who have joined the global call to Save the Arctic, and plant the Flag for the Future. And when they do that, our movement will come together across the planet.

Article tagged as: 3d, 4d, APRIL, arctic, climate, flag, future, london, map, project, SaveTheArctic

Finger lickin' good news: KFC promises a better bucket

Posted by Amy Moas - 4 April 2013 at 11:38am - Comments

Your support forced KFC to adopt better paper policies

Thanks to pressure from thousands of people around the globe, Yum! Brands, the largest restaurant company in the world and parent company of KFC, has released a new set of commitments which could make the paper and packaging it uses much more rainforest-friendly.

Article tagged as: fast food, indonesia, KFC, palm oil, paper, pulp and paper, yum brands

Warming up for the North Pole, keeping a promise we made

Posted by Iris - 4 April 2013 at 8:49am - Comments

Last June, as we launched our campaign to save the Arctic, we made a promise.

Article tagged as: arctic, expedition, FLAG FOR THE FUTURE, North pole

Climate kraken wakes

Posted by Graham Thompson - 26 March 2013 at 5:10pm - Comments

One of the arguments currently popular with climate change contrarians and science deniers is that climate change has paused, or, in less moderate language, global warming stopped in 1997. Either phrasing is wrong, but there’s wrong, and then there’s climate denier wrong, and we didn’t realise quite how spectacularly wrong this was until this week.

Blair's legacy to be demolished

Posted by Graham Thompson - 22 March 2013 at 2:19pm - Comments

The third worst eyesore in Britain, according to readers of Country Life, and one of our top three polluters, closed forever today.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, didcot, gas

Forests Day: every day is Forest Day at Greenpeace

Posted by paulo adario - 21 March 2013 at 12:14pm - Comments

Today I will celebrate. And my friends in Greenpeace's forest campaign will celebrate too. But this is nothing different for us. We do this every day. But maybe, just maybe, the focus that a day like today brings may help our work to protect the world’s remaining forests.

Article tagged as: amazon, Forests Day, indonesia, rainforest

Forests Day: what happened after a forest destroyer stopped cutting down the rainforest?

Posted by Richardg - 21 March 2013 at 11:52am - Comments

Today is the UN’s International Day of Forests. It’s also about two years since you helped us persuade Golden Agri Resources to stop chopping down Indonesia’s rainforests. Sounds like a good time to look at what happened next.

Article tagged as: APP, Forests Day, golden agri resources, indonesia, sinar mas

Revealing the NFFO’s members – opening Pandora’s Box?

Posted by Ariana Densham - 15 March 2013 at 12:43pm - Comments

How would you feel if you were betrayed by the very people who are meant to be protecting your interests? This is what we discovered about the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations (NFFO) last month. It turns out that instead of standing up for small scale fishermen, they have actually been trying to deny them the wider representation in Europe that they so desperately need.

Article tagged as: CFP, nffo, oceans, responsible fishing

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