Oil giant ExxonMobil may have to put its controversial ambitions for operations in the Russian Arctic on ice because of the political situation in Ukraine, it...
Russian president Vladimir Putin has announced country’s first shipment of Arctic offshore oil. Gazprom has shipped 70,000 tonnes of oil from the Prirazlomnoye platform, which was...
The UK government needs to get with the programme over the protection of the Arctic, campaigners have said. This follows the European parliament’s vote in favour...
Five of the six Britons detained by Russian authorities for 100 days after a Greenpeace protest at an Arctic oil rig have arrived back in London....
Campaigners have said the “clock is ticking” on an environmental disaster in the Arctic, after oil giant Gazprom announced the first commercial production from the oil...
Greenpeace has vowed to return to the Arctic and step up its efforts to prevent oil companies exploiting the region, despite the drawn-out detention of the...
The 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, held by Russian authorities since a protest at an Arctic oil rig in September, are to be set freed,...
A Russian court has granted bail to nine Greenpeace activists who were arrested back in October in a protest against drilling in the Arctic. This brings...
A St Petersburg court has ruled that a Greenpeace activist being held in Russia on charges of hooliganism could be remanded in custody in the country...
Authorities in Russia are to bring more charges against many of the Greenpeace activists currently being detained in the country. The 28 protesters and two journalists...
Russian authorities have dropped charges of piracy against 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists, and have accused them of hooliganism instead, according to officials. The ‘Arctic...
The UK government has announced plans to make the UK “a global centre of expertise” in opening up the Arctic to exploitation by oil and gas...
Eleven Nobel peace prize winners have written to Russian president Vladimir Putin, asking him to drop charges against the 28 Greenpeace activists and two journalists currently...
The head of Greenpeace International has offered to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in order to discuss the release of the ‘Greenpeace 30’ currently being held...
Perhaps the bitterest irony to emerge from the issue of global warming is that the melted ice in the polar regions allows for new fossil fuel...