Climate Actions

Greenpeace activists board coal ship on Great Barrier ReefIn a climate change protest over Australian coal exports, Greenpeace activists boarded a bulk coal carrier while navigating through the Great Barrier Reef on 23 April 2013. The ship, the MV Meister, had just loaded coal from Abbot Point, located 25km north of the town of Bowen on the central Queensland coast. Abbot Point coal loading facility is being expanded, with four new coal terminals proposed to be built, part of the development of 9 new coal terminals for the Great Barrier Reef Coast.

Related: Greenpeace petition - We stand in solidarity for action against coal | Queensland's Coal addiction - talk by Guy Pearse | Greenpeace activists say Coal ship highlights 'Reef in Danger' | Global Warming imperils coral reefs: 2 degrees warming is too hot say scientists

Red Lake Tribal Members Occupy Illegal Enbridge Pipeline on Their Land

Tessa McLean, Anishinaabe

What happens when you’ve had enough of oil companies illegally passing pipelines through your tribal land? You practice self-determination and your sovereign rights to occupy that land. That is exactly what a group of Red Lake Tribal members are doing.

Saturday, January 26th, All day. Massive March and Rally in Portland, Maine to oppose the proposed Northeast Tar Sands pipeline. ExxonMobil is gearing up to move dirty tar sands oil east through Ontario and Quebec into New England to reach a shipping port in Portland, Maine.

Activists from Quit Coal were able to get a message across this morning: with a banner drop over the main entrance of the Victorian State parliament house. The banner said "'Coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet' Prof. James Hansen, NASA. Why is Baillieu funding coal?" At the same time activists in central NSW at Boggabri climbed a coal-crusher and dropped a banner which said "Stop the Coal Rush: Protect Health, Water, Climate"

Related: Further subsidies for Victorian coal by Victorian and Federal Governments | Quit Coal photos: Parliament House Banner Drop & Lock On

Last Saturday, after 5 days and 50 miles, over 500 Marchers arrived at Blair
Mountain and rallied with hundreds more, bringing our crowd to over 1000 strong.
After hearing from incredible movement leaders, we took the March to the top of the
mountain and placed placed a memorial sign on the battlefield, commemorating the

A Busy week for the activists of Greenpeace Australia who did a banner drop outside BHP Billiton headquarters in Melbourne on Monday and followed it up midweek with erecting a Pollution Tax Collection Point at BHP’s Mount Arthur Mine in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales holding up a BHP coal train temporarily.

Hey all-not sure how many of you have been following the March on Blair Mountain, but the organizing has been pretty amazing.

Just to give some background: Blair Mountain was the site of the second largest armed insurrection (after the Civil War) in U.S. history. 8000-10000 miners fighting for union rights took up arms against the coalthugs. And now coal companies want to strip mine Blair Mountain. They'vealready stripped it of its historical preservation status and are nowseeking permitting to strip mine it. They've already begun strip mining onparts of it, so I hear.

Videos: Day 1 | Press Conference June 6 | Day 3 | Union miners support the march |

Hundreds of Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Energy Across Germany The biggest anti-nuclear protests Germany has ever seen by Nicole Goebel

Over 200,000 protesters took to the streets in Cologne, Berlin, Munich and Ham

Climbers are hanging from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
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calling on Chevron to take responsibility for its oil pollution in the