- Greenpeace launches biodegradable credit card
The environmental group Greenpeace, in announcing its affiliation on Monday with a biodegradabvle credit card, challenged US financial services companies to adopt similar technology and to stop using
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Spill in Spain becomes flow of death
A toxic spill in southern Spain has caused an ecological disaster that is worsening by the hour as contaminated water and acidic mud flow toward the sea, environmentalists said. Greenpeace said the
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French farmers reject genetically engineered maize "en masse"
Novartis genetically engineered Bt-maize have proven to be a serious market failure in France. An independent study commissioned by Greenpeace shows that overwhelming majority of farmers reject
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PVC recycling - Industry deceives politicians and consumers
More and more PVC (vinyl) enters the waste stream with no safe disposal option in sight and alleged PVC recycling is nothing but greenwash of the PVC industry, said Greenpeace in a report. The
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Greenpeace calls on Russia not to resume whaling
Greenpeace has appealed to President Yelstin not to allow Russia to return to commercial whaling. Earlier this week, Japanese media reported that Japan and Russia had agreed to set up agreement
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Shell pull out of U.S. anti climate group
Greenpeace International welcomed Shell's announcement that the multinational oil company would be withdrawing its membership from the Global Climate Coalition: the US industry lobby group which
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Forest practices code rollbacks a giant step backwards for BC forest industry
Greenpeace condemned announced amendments to the Forest Practices Code as being environmentally and economically short-sighted. According to the Canada government's press release the Ministry of
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- Greenpeace men charged
Three European members of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation and one Canadian were sentenced to 21 days in prison Friday for their activities in an anti-logging demonstration last
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US and European corporations turn away from BC rainforest wood
Responding to the call by Greenpeace and other environmentalists to help protect the world's largest unprotected rainforest, major companies from the United States and around the world, have begun
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- Major UK company cancels rainforest contract in response to Greenpeace action
While Greenpeace activists continue to occupy a shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp in Greenock harbour, near Glasgow, as part of an international campaign to save the world's
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Greenpeace denounces WFP's loggin of intact rainforest valley
Greenpeace denounced the decision by Western Forest Products to begin blasting roads into the intact rainforest valleys of the Mooto-Ingram of the Great bear Rainforest. Western's decision
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British military exercises in akamas are "postponed"
The Greenpeace Mediterranean office said it supports the efforts of the Cyprus government for achieving a "postponement" of the British military exercises planned to begin in the Akamas peninsula.
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Dome decision undermines climate success
Greenpeace expressed outrage at a decision by the New Millennium Experience Company to use the environmentally damaging gas, HFC, in the Dome's air conditioning system. This decision has been made
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EU bows again to US pressure by allowing risky genetech-crops into Europe
European member states allowed four genetically engineered crops to be imported into Europe. Greenpeace condemned the European Union's failure to fight for the protection of the environment and
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- Troubles of nuke waste shipment indicates reprocessing, shipment
The troubles which have faced the nuclear waste ship Pacific Swan in Japan clearly point out the need to halt both reprocessing and nuclear waste shipments, according to Greenpeace. Japan believes
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- Greenpeace issues public challenge to government and logging industry
Signalling a dramatic shift in purchasing decisions, the third UK company in three months has announced that it will no longer buy clearcut rainforest products from British Columbia. Greenpeace
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As talks resume on tuna dolphin treaty, Greenpeace calls for concrete steps to ensure effective protection
As negotiations resume in La Jolla, California, on the details of a multilateral dolphin protection treaty, Greenpeace is lobbying participating governments to include concrete measures to advance
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Radioactive nuclear waste will pass through Panama Canal without environmental impact study, says Greenpeace
In a press conference in Panama City, the environmental group Greenpeace criticised plans to allow a shipment of high level nuclear waste to pass through the Panama Canal. According to information
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New information can help identify ecologically sound alternatives
In a move to empower American architects to help protect one of the most important ancient forests remaining in North America while decreasing toxic chemicals in our environment, Greenpeace reached
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Greenpeace offers BNFL the opportunity to fund environmental research on nuclear contamination
Greenpeace announced today that it had offered British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL), the plutonium reprocessing company, the opportunity to fund independent environmental research into the effects of