Greenpeace disappointed at OECD GE food conference
Greenpeace today expressed its disappointment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) food safety conference and the draft report produced by the organisers. The
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Greenpeace targets chocolate bar
Greenpeace activists yesterday raided a North Point Wellcome store in Hong Kong demanding the supermarket chain stop selling a popular chocolate bar they say contains genetically
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Danger from incinerators highlighted
Disposal of hospital waste by incineration is hazardous to health and the environment, according to Greenpeace International. The environment watchdog said hospital waste, including used medical
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Greenpeace holds dharna at sea over shipbreaking
Rainbow Warrior, the ship of international environment organisation Greenpeace, reached the high seas near the Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat to focus world attention on the import of hazardous
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Antarctic seabirds being slaughtered -Greenpeace
At least 60,000 endangered sea birds areestimated to be killed each year in Antarctic waters as they swoop on fishing lines set by illegal fishermen, environmental group Greenpeace said yesterday.
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Greenpeace launches public campaign for the regulation of the environmental crimes law in Brazil
Greenpeace today launched a public campaign to put pressure on the Minister of the Civil House, Pedro Parente, to regulate the Environmental Crimes Law. A regulation proposal was sent by the Minister
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Greenpeace dubs Mavoor plant as 'slow-motion Bhopal'
Environmental organisation Greenpeace has called upon the Birlas and the Kerala Government to investigate the environmental and health damage created by the Grasim viscose staple fibre factory at
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Public warned against chemical waste disposal
Greenpeace Internation senior scientist Pat Costner has appealed to the People of Gujarat not to be taken in by Common Effluent TReatment Plants (CETPs), incinerators and land-fill sites proposed by
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Greenpeace welcomes major global steps to get out of genetically modified food
Greenpeace International welcomed two major steps towards eliminating food products form the genetically modified supplies in the USA and in Germany. The US largest baby food company Gerber/Norvatis
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Greenpeace-director in court in genetically-modified crops case
The British executive director of environmental pressure group Greenpeace and 27 other activists were due in court on Tuesday after allegedly damaging a field of genetically modified
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Greenpeace calls upon the British French and Japanese governments to ban the imminent shipment of weapons-usable plutonium fuel from Europe to Japan
Greenpeace called on the British, French and Japanese governments to ban the first shipment of plutonium fuel due to depart imminently from Europe to Japan. The international environmental
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NATO bombing wrecks Balkan environment - Greenpeace
Greenpeace said yesterday that NATO'sbombing of Yugoslavia is not only causing widespread pollution throughout the Balkans but risks a major nuclear accident. "We are concerned about these missiles
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Norwegian whale hunt is against international law
Norwegian whaling is in defiance of international agreements on whale management, said the international environmental group Greenpeace during a press conference onboard the ship Rainbow Warrior in
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CCAMLR fails to protect toothfish
Greenpeace declared the most recent meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) a failure and demanded that the fishery for toothfish be suspended
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Greenpeace hunts for Norway whalers amid secrecy
Greenpeace activists headed for the northernoceans yesterday, determined to find Norwegian whalers amid a veil of secrecy surrounding the annual minke whale hunts. The Norwegian fisheries ministry,
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Outrage over missing plutonium from Sellafield's discharges
Greenpeace reacted angrily to the news that over a third of plutonium discharged into the Irish Sea from British Nuclear Fuel's (BNFL) nuclear plant at Sellafield in Cumbria have gone astray.
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Politicians to turn Russia into a nuclear waste dump
Today, the 13th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, Greenpeace supporters held an action at the State Duma to protest attempts by sections of the Russian Government to amend an environmental law
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Anger at underground proposal
Environmentalists responded angrily to recommendation from a House of Lords committee that British nuclear waste be buried deep underground. Greenpeace describes the science and technology committee
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Greenpeace presses Mexico to ratify turtle pacts
Environmental group Greenpeace urged Mexico early this week to ratify two regional cooperation treaties crucial for the protection of endangered sea turtles. While Mexico's environmental law is more
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Environmentalists call for moratorium on new logging to save forests
Two international environmental groups called for a moratorium on new logging in Papua New Guinea, claiming the national forestry management plan had failed. Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for