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Greenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Press release – 17 August, 2017Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017: Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with kayaks and inflatable boats, while swimmers are in the waters protesting with hand banners.The activists are there to deliver…
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Overfishing affects me too
With more than 10% of the world’s population depending on fisheries for their livelihood, it’s fair to say that fishing helps make the world go round.
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Getting to know Colin Russell of the Arctic 30
Nine months after being illegally seized at gunpoint Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya Arctic oil platform in the Pechora sea – our Arctic Sunrise has been released. Colin Russell, one of the Greenpeace activists on board the ship when it was boarded last September, has been working with our ships for the past 15 years. We asked him…
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Thank you times two million!
When you’re as far north as we are right now, communications come to you like telegrams; they’re few and far between, and only the most important make it through. Blogpost by Martin Norman – October 3, 2012 So when Steve, the radio operator on board the Arctic Sunrise, hand-delivered me a message today, I knew…
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Arctic melting: The science behind the ice
Two of the scientists travelling with Greenpeace on the Arctic Sunrise are Dr Julienne Stroeve, a research scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), and Nick Toberg, an ice scientist at Cambridge University. I asked them what research they would be able to do on the ice, and for some insight…
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“For God’s sake look after our people”
Blogpost by Joss Garman, Greenpeace UK Staring out at the bright, open, broken plains of Arctic sea ice back in September, more than once I was struck by the thought of the early explorers who first trekked across similar icescapes at both of the frozen ends of the planet. My first time stepping down onto…
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Deni celebrate their forest homeland in the Brazilian Amazon
September 11, 2001 was not only a day of major tragedy in the US, which changed the world we are living in, it was also a day of hope for the Deni. The Deni are an indigenous group living in semi-isolation in a very remote part of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, whose land at that…
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The Esperanza back in the Pacific
How about this for great timing? The Esperanza has arrived in the Pacific – the same ocean where Greenpeace started its first campaign – just in time for our 40th anniversary later this month. Blogpost by Phil Crawford (Comms officer on the Espy) In 1971 we were protesting against nuclear testing in the Pacific. In…
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Offshore drilling: Is it worth the risk?
Aussie lad Shannon is onboard a research expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. Writing from the deck of the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise, he asks if the profit from offshore drilling is really worth it. I’m sitting on the heli-deck of the Arctic Sunrise near a small group of islands located at the end of the Florida…