Greenpeace Blog

It’s Valentine’s Day. To offer you a sugar-free, non-commercialised way of celebrating here are our top ten reasons to LOVE the ocean.

Britain currently has the rare pleasure of weather really worth talking about, and the enticing possibility of blaming someone for it. It’s a wonder anyone’s talking about anything else.

Of course, in reality the floods were caused by the highest level of sustained rainfall for centuries, probably caused by spiralling global carbon emissions, according to the Met Office and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. But that would kind of make us all partly responsible, and no-one wants to scapegoat themselves, so let’s review our options for who we can pin the flooding on.

Things are looking up for the Arctic. 

Only last week, Shell announced it has cancelled its plans to drill in Alaska this year. This came just days after a US court ruled that the leases granted to Shell to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan coast were invalid and had been granted unlawfully. Shell has now wasted over $6 billion trying to drill for oil in the Gulf of Alaska with no real results and investors are going to be wondering whether the Arctic oil dream is one worth chasing.

Soya traders, companies, NGOs and the Brazilian government met today to debate the future of the soya moratorium - a seven-year-old scheme that stops the soya industry from carving up the Amazon. We managed to buy another year - but that's just twelve short months to find a permanent solution.