Save the Arctic

Last edited 14 March 2014 at 1:26pm

The fragile Arctic is under threat from both climate change and oil drilling. As climate change melts the Arctic ice, oil companies are moving in to extract more of the fossil fuels that caused the melt in the first place. But above the Arctic circle, freezing temperatures, a narrow drilling window and a remote location mean that an oil spill would be almost impossible to deal with. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. Greenpeace is working to halt climate change and to stop this new oil rush at the top of the world.

Campaign updates

The battle for the Frozen North: Point Hope (video)

The small Alaskan community of Point Hope - or Tikiġaq, as the Iñupiaq people call their homeland - is one of the oldest continually occupied sites in North...
Posted by bex - 7 December, 2011 - 13:45 -
Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord in Greenland

Cairn's Arctic misadventure ends in dismal failure

It was the biggest oil exploration campaign ever in the Arctic. It cost over a billion dollars. And Cairn has absolutely nothing to show for it. Today, at the...
Posted by bex - 30 November, 2011 - 14:03 -
Cairn's rig - the most controversial in the world - about to start Arctic drilli

We're challenging Cairn's gagging order: right to protest is as important as Cairn's right to run its business

I don't know if you read our Get Active blogs, written by our brilliant community of Greenpeace volunteers? It turns out that Cairn Energy do. Last week,...
Posted by bex - 29 November, 2011 - 12:09 -
Melting icebergs in the path of rigs in the Arctic, the latest oil frontier

Cairn polar bear found not guilty

Back in July, if you remember, fifty Greenpeace polar bears occupied Cairn Energy's Edinburgh headquarters, looking for the company's Arctic oil spill response...
Posted by bex - 24 November, 2011 - 12:10

Stories from the Frozen North: Kaktovik, Alaska

Robert Thompson, a local guide in Alaska, explains how climate change is affecting his remote Alaskan community - and the spectacular Arctic wildlife. Within...
Posted by bex - 2 November, 2011 - 18:33 -

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