Bhopal Carbide site dangerously polluted
International environmental group Greenpeace has said that the dismissal of a lawsuit against Union Carbide by a US district judge did not abolve the multinational company of its toxic legacies and
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Fosters beer to drop greenhouse gas refrigerants
One month before the opening ceremony for the 2000 Olympic Games, Greenpeace Australia has issued a report card to the Games that shows Sydney has failed to live up to the promise of the so-called
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UK Government takes leading stance in tackling illegal logging worldwide
In a move which Greenpeace said would send shockwaves through the timber and construction industries, the UK Government has announced new ethical measures for the procurement of timber. In a House of
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Scientist says GM food danger big unknown
Transgenic foods may threaten humans and the environment with potential allergies, toxins and illnesses and should be banned until further testing is done, a scientific adviser for Greenpeace said.
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Arranging environmental groups' corporate' marriage
There is talk of a merger between Ozone Action and Greenpeace U.S.A., one of the more obscure and one of the more famous of environmental organizations. Whether or not the merger succeeds , John
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United States accused of environmental crimes over failure to clean up toxic dump sites
Greenpeace activists joined villagers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI) in the northern Pacific to demand that the United States cleans up the toxic legacy it has left there and in
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Another bitter harvest
Genetically modified crops are banned in Brazil. That pleases Greenpeace-and outrages farmers : a
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Greenpeace activists do battle in Pacific
The Rainbow Warrior, the vessel on which Greenpeace activists sail the Pacific to wage war against environmental threats, has found a fertile new battleground in the waters between Russia and Japan.
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Greenpeace seeks liablity rules on GMO releases
Greenpeace has called on the European Union (EU) Environmental Ministers to ensure that the EU moratorium on the approvals of genetically modified organisms(GMOs) remains in place as the Ministers
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OECD reports cheer backers of GM food products
- Two reports that say foods derived from genetically modified crops are as safe as other foods were cheered by U.S. backers of biotechnology but criticised by the environmental group Greenpeace. The
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Thouands of radioactive waste barrels rusting away on the sea bed
Greenpeace released new images of the legacy of radioactive waste dumping at sea from ships. The shocking footage was taken in the Hurd Deep, in UK territorial waters just off the Channel Islands and
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Greenpeace blocks discharges of carcinogenic waste into Israel's dirtiest river
Thirty Greenpeace activists blocked industrial effluent pipes that are rountinely discharging tonnes of carcinogenic waste into the Kishon River, Israel. The activists from Israel, the UK, Germany
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Is Lake Baikal in deep danger?
Environmentalists accuse the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper mill of polluting Lake Baikal. An international campaign is seeking to close the plant, and the environmentalist group Greenpeace has begun
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Greenpeace takes legal action to stop the spread of genetic contamination
Greenpeace took legal action against the Dutch seed company Advanta and the Government of Germany to enforce the immediate destruction of oilseed rape fields contaminated with engineered (GE) rape
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EU maize crop includes up to 15 pct GM Greenpeace
Environmentalist group Greenpeace has documentary evidence that up to 15 percent of the maize crop sown in the European Union this crop year includes genetically modified (GM) material, its senior
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Ecologically friendly rubber
Greenpeace together with rubber tappers from the Amazon presented the first mouse pad ever made with 100% natural Amazon rubber. The ecologically friendly mouse pad is the result of a pilot project
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Greenpeace protests Lapeyre's role in Amazon
Greenpeace activists in France, Belgium, Spain and Switzerland protested against the French home-improvement store, Lapeyre, after the company neglected to fulfil a commitment to its customers to
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Stage set for dispute over whales
On the opening day of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Nairobi, Kenya, Japan led its campaign to resume commercial whaling by trying to have Greenpeace
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Greenpeace mounts protest at Romanian mine
Greenpeace today blockaded the entrance to Esmeralda Explorations' ill fated Aurul gold mine in Romania, demanding that it should not be reopened as long as it was still using cyanide. The gold
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Greenpeace urges EU to reject new GM crop strains
Environmentalist group Greenpeace urged the European Commission yesterday to scrap a proposal to approve commercial use of three genetically modified crops (GMOs),