The Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway saw a world-leading expedition cruise ship operator join international environmental organisations to spearhead the protection of Arctic communities and ecosystems...
Growing concern prompts ‘Arctic Basecamp’ at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting calling for responsible and responsive leadership on Arctic change. On Wednesday 18 January, 2017, eminent...
A legal challenge has been mounted against a group of British oil firms planning to drill in the icy waters of the Norwegian Arctic. At a press conference in...
Greenpeace has published research that finds climate change impacts in the Arctic could change the weather in the northern hemisphere. The study found that melting ice...
Yesterday news broke that climate resolutions at the AGMs of oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron were backed by the most shareholders ever, MEP Keith Taylor has...
The name of the UK’s new polar research ship has been announced. Whilst “Boaty McBoatface” attracted a huge interest with the British public, the ship has...
Rod Downie, Polar Programme Manager at WWF-UK said: ‘We are pleased to see the commitments made by these two leaders towards Arctic conservation, including a pan-arctic network...
Following a record-breaking warm Arctic winter, Arctic Ocean sea ice looks set to hit a record low maximum level. The ice hit a maximum of 14,478...
Activists are currently protesting against Austrian oil company OMV’s exploratory drilling in the remote arctic waters of Norway’s Barents Sea. The protest is happening 300 kilometers...
A new Greenpeace investigation reveals that fishing fleets that supply major UK and European consumer brands are using giant bottom trawlers in the northern Barents Sea...
The Biodiversity Committee of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) that met this week in Gothenburg, Sweden, has...
Here’s the articles that were read by most people in the last week. On this day 1935: Hoover Dam dedication ceremony The Hoover dam was built...
Emma Thompson joined Greenpeace UK Executive Director John Sauven to deliver a celebratory speech outside Shell’s London head offices this morning. Yesterday, the Anglo-Dutch oil major...
Firing seismic airguns to find new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean is ‘alarming’ and could seriously injure whales and other marine life, according to a...
In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and...