Blog: Climate

Video: how to climb the tallest building in western Europe

Posted by victoriah — 24 July 2013 at 6:08pm - Comments

Since the six of us climbed the Shard, many people have asked: how did we do it? How much training did it take? How did we go to the toilet?

Article tagged as: arctic, climb, film, henry, iceclimb, london, oil, protest, shard, shell, victo, video, watch, women

Hell yeah, I'm scared, but I'm still scaling the Shard to save the Arctic

Posted by victoriah — 11 July 2013 at 8:26am - Comments
The Iceclimb team
All rights reserved. Credit: David Sandison / Greenpeace
Victoria, third from left, with her fellow activists before heading up the Shard

With any luck, as you read this I’ll be clinging to the side of the Shard, hundreds of metres up in the sky.

But as I write this, with less than a week to go, I’m just feeling... tired. I have sores on my shoulders from training with backpacks full of weights, and every night brings tiresome dreams about carabiners and tangled ropes.

Article tagged as: climate change, iceclimb, Save the Arctic, shard

Sympathy for the revel - Glastonbury 2013

Posted by kcumming — 5 July 2013 at 4:07pm - Comments

It’s not every day we trump the Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at the festival”.

Article tagged as: 2013, cummings, eavis, glastonbury, kathy, Micheal, stones

Where did all the fun go?

Posted by Hugh Mouser — 4 July 2013 at 6:43pm - Comments
Electric car charging station sign
All rights reserved. Credit: boboroshi
Sign of the times, but car companies are dragging their heels over electric vehicles

I grew up on a diet of TV shows like Knight Rider and The A Team. I saw Ferrari and Mclaren produce faster cars as time went by. I admired how the car industry kept on trying to improve.

But it seems like some carmakers have lost the fun of innovation.

Article tagged as: BMW, cars, climate change, co2 emissions, daimler, EU, transport, VW

Russian oil spills damaging impact on local wildlife and the environment

Posted by Fran G — 2 July 2013 at 12:49pm - Comments
Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut
All rights reserved. Credit: Denis Sinyakov Greenpeace
Aerial of an oil spill in a forest near Surgut. Disastrous oil spills are a daily routine at Rosneft fields near Pyt'-Yah, Khanty-Mansi region, Siberia.

Denis Sinyakov, who covered Greenpeace’s expedition to the Rosneft’s oil fields, is a Moscow-based Russian photographer, who worked as a photo editor and a staff photographer at Agence France-Presse and Reuters.

Article tagged as: arctic, oil spills, russia, siberia, wildlife

Save the Arctic from Shell and its Russian friends

Posted by ianduff — 2 July 2013 at 8:00am - Comments

The Arctic is once again under attack from oil companies.

Over the past year we’ve seen just how reckless Arctic drilling is. Shell, one of the world’s biggest and most powerful corporations, has been leading the charge but a catalogue of screw-ups forced it to pause its drilling program in Alaska

Article tagged as: arctic, gazprom, oil, russia, SaveTheArctic, shell
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