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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...

Very nice talk, well worth a watch. The politics and chemistry of oil and why this summer is so important.

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...

Need proof that oil-eating microbes actually work? Look no further than Mumbai, where scientists recently used the Oilzapper (a mixture of five bacterial strains and corn cobs) to munch on oil spilled on a kilometer-long...

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...

Rockhopper Exploration's latest well comes up dry, giving Falklands oil hopes another setbackExcitement about the potential of oil prospects off the Falklands was further punctured today when Rockhopper Exploration revealed...

• Vedanta pays £5bn for 51% of Cairn India• Cairn Energy will use proceeds to fund Greenland project Cairn Energy, the oil exploration group, confirmed that it had sold a 51% stake in Cairn India to Vedanta for £5bn...

Ecologists warn cuts will hamper efforts to set up marine conservation areas and safely build offshore windfarmsPlans to set up a network of marine conservation areas and safely build vast offshore windfarms and deep-sea...