All but four of the Arctic 30, arrested aboard a Greenpeace icebreaker two months ago, have now been granted bail by St Petersburg courts, and 11 of the 30 have actually been released.

The Netherlands asked an international court on Wednesday to order Russia to release 30 people detained during a Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic at a tribunal Moscow refused to attend.

Renewable energy has proven itself and the government should move ahead swiftly with implementation, an environmental organisation has urged.

About 4 million barrels of spilled oil, as much as BP's Gulf of Mexico spill, is flowing into the Arctic Ocean every year, Greenpeace says.

Appeals for bail by lawyers for Phil Ball and Kieron Bryan, both British citizens, were refused last week by the Regional Court of Murmansk.

"The only logical conclusion to draw from an understanding of the science of climate change, as described in the IPCC's AR5, is that we have to stop building coal-fired power stations in order to mitigate climate change," says Makoma Lekalakala, Programme Officer at Earthlife Africa Johannesburg.

On September 15th, 80 cities across the globe will be participating in a historic event to help save the Arctic.

Endangered chimpanzees, other primates and forest elephants could lose stretches of their habitat in Cameroon if a U.S. company’s plan to establish a palm oil plantation goes ahead.

"Despite admitting that a spill in the frozen north is inevitable, Shell operated with a response plan that relied on untested technology and equipment totally incapable of working effectively in some of the harshest conditions on Earth," Greenpeace International Arctic campaigner Ben Ayliffe said on Monday.

Tuna is in trouble. It's is one of the world’s favourite fish, and the staple protein of millions, but it is overfished globally.

They came from diverse academic backgrounds with a potpourri of ideas to successfully awaken, enlighten and jerk people into saving the environment.

The citizens of Istanbul now appear in control of Gezi Park, protecting one of the last and most treasured green spaces in Istanbul from conversion to a shopping mall. The protest, which began to save the park, became a rally for genuine democracy in Turkey.

The Coalition for a GM Free India along with various farmer unions, national political parties and diverse social and environmental movements have launched a nation-wide campaign demanding that the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill be withdrawn immediately.

After years of controversy surrounding the proposed palm oil plantation in Cameroon, the Cameroonian government has ordered Herakles Farms to suspend all logging at its main worksite at Talangaye, in the Nguti region of the country.

Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, Greenpeace East Asia said.

Earlier this week, Greenpeace Africa commemorated the 2nd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster with a call to the South African government to ensure transparency and accountability in the nuclear build process.

The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues for hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan, who are still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for its disasters, reports Greenpeace.

Various environmental NGOs have suspended their participation in Eskom’s NGO forum following reports that they contracted an intelligence company to spy on the organisations.

Limited Brands, owner of iconic underwear labels Victoria’s Secret and La Senza, has committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its global supply chain and across all of its brands and products by 2020, in response to Greenpeace's global Detox campaign.

Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned massive global increase in emissions from coal, oil and gas projects.