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The Making of an Arctic Time Capsule

Posted by Jessica Wilson - 8 April 2013 at 3:13pm - Comments
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A closer look at the capsule containing the names of 2.7 million Arctic defenders that will be lowered onto the seabed at the North Pole.

Your name at the top of the world

Posted by Jessica Wilson - 8 April 2013 at 3:01pm - Comments
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Every couple of months, something bizarre happens at work that convinces me I must have one of the strangest jobs on the planet.

The Stars Align Over the North Pole

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

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.

Finger lickin' good news: KFC promises a better bucket

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

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.

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

Forests Day: every day is Forest Day at Greenpeace

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

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