Blogposts tagged 'Ice'

Update from the Arctic pod: 48 hours and going strong!

Posted by hannah_gp - 31 May 2011 at 12:27pm - 8 Comments
Looking down from the pod at the Arctic waters below
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace
Looking down from the pod at the Arctic waters below

We've now been suspended beneath the Cairn oil rig in our Arctic survival pod for over 48 hours.

After leaving the Esperanza at 3am to scale the rig and then a hard day rigging up the pod and setting up camp we were pretty exhausted. But last night we managed to sleep almost 12 hours in our little pod, with a few wake up calls on the radio to update us.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, ice, oil

The drills are heading into the Arctic ice

Posted by ben - 11 May 2011 at 3:01pm - 3 Comments
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose / Greenpeace
Cairn's tugs drag icebergs out the way of its Arctic oil drilling rig

Yesterday, the UK’s wildest wildcat oil company, Cairn Energy, received the news it has been waiting for: it got permission from the Greenland authorities to start its 2011 Arctic drilling programme.

Article tagged as: arctic, cairn energy, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, greenland, ice, oil drilling, oil spill

Who's going to defend the Arctic?

Posted by jamess - 18 January 2011 at 4:43pm - 13 Comments
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
Oil companies are taking their drills to the Arctic

The masters at Marvel comics would struggle to find bad guys worse than these.

Take two of the world’s biggest environmental villains – Russian Rosneft (special powers: oil leaks. 7,526 in 2009 alone) and British BP (special powers: oil spills. Gulf of Mexico, 2010).

Article tagged as: arctic, beyond oil, BP, climate, climate change, go beyond oil, ice, rosneft

Video: Haunting icescapes from Arctic expedition

Posted by jamie - 29 September 2009 at 12:04pm - 4 Comments

There's some stunning photography in this final video from the Arctic Sunrise's arctic expedition. Ice sheets, icebergs, glaciers and (yes) polar bears all feature in a kind of greatest hits package from Greenland and beyond. View it on Youtube for a larger, more panoramic version.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, greenland, ice, ships, videos

Glaciers and ice bridges: images from the Greenland ice sheet

Posted by jamie - 15 July 2009 at 1:37pm - 2 Comments

The Arctic Sunrise is still in Greenland where the crew (including leading climate scientists and other ice experts) have been monitoring the ongoing disintegration of the Petermann glacier.

Photographer Nick Cobbing is on board, and we've all been oohing and aahing over his stunning images as they come in to the office. They're all the more poignant as the portion of the glacier they depict may soon cease to exist. 

You can view a larger version of this slideshow, and follow updates from the Arctic Sunrise on the Climate Rescue blog.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, greenland, ice, images, photography, ships, slideshows
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