Days after Shell received US Government backing for its plans to drill in the Chukchi Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers from Greenpeace have occupied its 'Polar Pioneer' oil rig in the Pacific Ocean to demand a halt to all Arctic oil exploration.
… Greenpeace occupies Shell rig after Arctic … 2015 News Oil Oceans Pollution Regulation USA greenpeace-shell-cut.jpg Days after Shell … Sea in the Alaskan Arctic, volunteers from Greenpeace have occupied its 'Polar Pioneer' …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
… to foreign fossil fuels Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th January 2015 News … the Coalition, according to an analysis by Greenpeace Energydesk. The total support for … 30% of Russian coal imports to the UK. A Greenpeace investigation found the UK spends …
Indian coal firm Adani is struggling to finance its proposed mega coal mine in Australia's Galilee Basin, write Marina Lou & Christine Ottery, as promised government support evaporates and a major investor looks set to pull out.
… Reef coal project Marina Lou Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 16th March 2015 News … from burning coal - which as reported by Greenpeace, is worse in Delhi than Beijing - … Marina Lou & Christine Ottery write for Greenpeace Energydesk . This article is an …
More sites may be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week, but how effective is this register of global hot spots, and what are the areas that truly deserve international protection?
… Charles Darwin Galapagos David Santillo Greenpeace IUCN Tim Badman Angkor Cambodia NGO … says David Santillo, senior scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories in Exeter. … Dr David Santillo, senior scientist, Greenpeace Research Laboratories, School of …
Inconsistent wind is no impediment to the generation of electricity by turbines, three separate reports have concluded, as well as showing that the National Grid is more than able to cope with increased investment in wind energy
… Renewables National Grid Friends Of The Earth Greenpeace RSPB WWF Fossil Fuel Coal Weather … report commissioned by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, RSPB and WWF. Consistent …
It may have billion-pound profits and gushing praise for technological innovation but Apple is increasingly in the spotlight over its labour rights and environmental record. Eifion Rees reports on the 'sweatshop brand'
… to make and use,” says Tom Dowdall of Greenpeace International. 'The products people … agenda, but his open letter came a year after Greenpeace had launched Green My Apple . (Far … Guide to Greener Electronics in 2006, Greenpeace’s hope had been that an …
As Shell's Polar Pioneer drilling rig sails from Seattle into the north Pacific, Christine Ottery discovers that US federal regulators had serious concerns about the company's safety equipment designed to contain any oil spill.
… Shell's Arctic spill safety Christine Ottery Greenpeace Energydesk | 19th June 2015 News … This article was originally published on Greenpeace Energydesk . Additional reporting / …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
… Trading ITC Nitrous Oxide Meat Ecosystems Greenpeace soil.jpg A new report has revealed … developed and built may make CCS unviable. As Greenpeace’s False Hope report made clear last …
As public spaces become blighted by the £18 billion global outdoors advertising industry, community groups are fighting back to reclaim both ad-free areas or use billboards in a socially beneficial way
… Advert Activist Consumerism Junk Food Greenpeace Amnesty International Shell Bp … ‘Tesco2' in protest of their emissions, and Greenpeace ran a competition to alter BP's …
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops'
… international forest policy coordinator for Greenpeace International, which is concerned … forests, but organisations including Greenpeace International oppose the hard …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
… glacier is receding. Pictures released by Greenpeace in 2007 show to what extent: a 1968 …
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports
… says Jean McSorley, senior consultant for Greenpeace’s nuclear campaign, the pressing …