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Reacting to new data showing record shrinking of Arctic sea ice, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said:
Posted by jossc — 28 August 2007 at 2:01pm
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Posted by jamie — 1 August 2007 at 3:28pm
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After twenty years out of fashion, the term 'cold war' has become the hot favourite in Fleet Street once more. Not just because diplomatic relations between Russia and the UK distinctly frosty at the moment, but Russia's current Arctic adventures are lowering the temperature even further.
Posted by bex — 31 July 2007 at 10:44am
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A glacial melt lake in Greenland.
It's becoming pretty obvious that the aviation industry is creeping closer and closer to the tactics of big tobacco and big oil in their attempts to "teach the controversy" over science that doesn't suit their profit margins.
Last week, it was an outrageous display of bullying aimed at groups concerned about climate change. A couple of weeks ago, there was another, smaller episode that got a lot less press; the aviation industry's briefing against an Inuit leader who came to the UK to tell his "southern neighbours" that the people of the Arctic are already feeling the impacts of climate change.
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First ever unsupported summer crossing of the Arctic ocean commences to show first hand impact of global warming
CAPE ARTCHITESKY, Russia - Two polar explorers set off today from a remote region of Siberia on a historic trek to make the first ever unsupported summer crossing of the Arctic ocean. Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen will have to endure a four month, 1,240 miles (2000 km) trek of unpredictable sea ice and frigid open water. The two man team using skis and specially designed canoes left Cape Arctichesky, Siberia today and will travel across the North Pole before ending the expedition in Ellesmere Island, Canada.
Posted by bex — 30 November 2004 at 9:00am
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Polar bears
The Arctic is experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on the planet. Diminishing ice is pushing polar bears, caribou and reindeer towards extinction. And as their snowy world melts, ours begins to shrink as sea level rise will have devastating affects in the UK and around the globe.
Last edited 19 April 2001 at 8:00am
BP must take heed of a significant vote at its Annual General Meeting today on a Greenpeace resolution calling for the company to take seriously the threats of climate change on fossil fuel investments and protect its shareholders financial future earnings by investing in renewable energy.
Today's initial proxy vote, displayed at the meeting today, showed 919 million shares, or 7.4 per cent of the vote, in favour of the resolution. Votes of the shareholders attending today's meeting have yet to be counted.
Last edited 21 March 2001 at 9:00am
Oil giant BP stands to lose 5 percent of total earnings from declining petrol sales as the market for green fuel technology expands and regulations to reduce CO2 emissions begin to bite. The startling findings are contained in a report by financial analysts Innovest, which is published today by Greenpeace.
Last edited 8 March 2001 at 9:00am
Greenpeace today re-issued a challenge to BP to come clean on its climate plans. The campaign group put forward an amended shareholder resolution to BP's April AGM after the company rejected the original - along with three others - on a legal technicality.
The resolution now "directs", rather than "requests", BP's Board to publish a report by the end of 2001 outlining how it will make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, in response to climate change. BP's insistence on this one word change means the document becomes a 'Special Resolution' and requires a three-quarters majority vote from shareholders, rather than a simple majority.
