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Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland• Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rigFour Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned...

Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop drilling for fossil fuelsTen days ago I received a letter from Cairn Energy, the British company at the centre of Greenpeace's current direct action...

Kuupik Kleist claims environmental campaigners are damaging country's economy by occupy drilling platformThe premier of Greenland has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment after four...

Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raidGreenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four...

Concerted action to tackle climate change will happen only if the public demands it for the sake of future generations"How did you become an activist?" I was surprised by the question...

The number of coal trucks suggest strains on China's energy supply that are equal to those on its transport systemIt is not easy to wake a coal truck driver at 2am, but I had to do it at least twenty times last night to get...

Cairn Energy's oil and gas find sparks hopes that Greenland can ditch its reliance on fishing and tourismThe rain was tipping down today on the cluster of multicoloured buildings in the heart of the capital of Greenland but...

Environmental campaigners fear that drilling in the previously untouched Arctic area raises the risk of an environmental disaster on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon spill

The Danish navy has warned that the Esperanza will be boarded by armed personnel if it breaches the exclusion zone • Climate Camp day of action – as it happenedA Greenpeace ship protesting against deep sea drilling by...

Find by Cairn Energy off Greenland could open door to huge reserves of oil – and potential for more environmental disastersA British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could...

• Cairn says well has found gas and oil-bearing sands in Arctic• Greenpeace ship already in area protesting against drillingCairn Energy has confirmed that it has discovered gas and oil-bearing sands off the coast of...

Behind government dismissals of 'alarmist' fears there is growing concern over critical future energy suppliesSpeculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted...

Pioneering deal signed with UN sets up trust fund by wealthy countries worth half expected earnings from potential sale of oilHow much would you pay for the most biologically rich patch of land on Earth – some 675 sq miles...

It’s a familiar refrain: renewable energy won’t look as enticing after government subsidies are removed. While renewable energy does get government incentives, it turns out fossil fuels get more — way more....

New analysis shows that government support for fossil fuel industry is about 10 times that offered to renewable energy firmsDespite repeated pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and criticism from some quarters that...