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Locals come out in force to challenge BP’s plans to drill near the Amazon Reef

Posted by Sara Ayech - 24th November 2017
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BP held three public hearings in Brazil last week, where 1,500 local people turned out to express concern about drilling in the Amazon Mouth Basin and a possible spill. “In most of the projects that come to the Amazon, companies keep most of… Read More

Locals come out in force to challenge BP’s plans to drill near the Amazon Reef

Posted by Sara Ayech - 24th November 2017

BP held three public hearings in Brazil last week, where 1,500 local people turned out to express concern about drilling in the Amazon Mouth Basin and a possible spill “In most of the projects that come to the Amazon, companies keep most of the profit. It’s… Read More

Blue Planet II Exposes The Threat of Ocean Plastic Pollution

Posted by Tisha Brown - 23rd November 2017
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The unaltered stomach contents of a dead albatross chick photographed on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific in September 2009 include plastic marine debris fed the chick by its parents.

Episode 4 of Blue Planet II focussed on life in the open ocean. We were treated to incredible footage of sleeping sperm whales, whale sharks looking for a place to birth their young and a possible answer to the age old question, where do baby turtles go after… Read More

The People vs Arctic Oil: Historic climate trial ends

Posted by Neilza Polidore - 22nd November 2017
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Joanna Sustento in water with banner reading "Choose people over oil". Statoil rig Songa Enabler in the background. She lost her entire family, except for her brother, to Super-typhoon Haiyan in 2013 which left large parts of her hometown, Tacloban, in ruins.

Oslo, Norway 22 November, 2017 – Today was the last day in court where three environmental organisations have taken on the Norwegian government for opening up new areas in the Arctic to oil drilling. The plaintiffs have been arguing that drilling for new oil violates the Norwegian Constitution and contravenes… Read More

Can we create healthy oceans and tackle climate change at the same time?

Posted by Louisa Casson - 21st November 2017
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“We woke up to the fact that there’s ocean change just like climate change. We need ocean action like there’s climate action.”   These words rang out at international climate talks last week, spoken by Peter Thompson, the UN’s special envoy for the ocean. This is… Read More