Greenpeace fears more Bhopal-like disasters
Fifteen years after the Union Carbide gas leak disaster left thousands dead or ailing in life, many more Bhopals are happening ..or waiting to happen. Greenpeace's Nityanand Jayaraman, campaigning
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'Gas poisoning still a threat '
Even after 15 years of the Bhopal gas disaster, people were still exposed to dangers of Bhopal-like tragedies, Greenpeace International said yesterday. "People are still being poisoned and
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Rainbow Warrior coming to plead Bhopal victims' case
Greenpeace, intenrnational organisation campaigning on a range of environmental issues, has announced that its ocean-going vessel, Rainbow Warrior, will visit India for the first time in late
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Grasim urged to pay for Mavoor clean-up
International NGO Greenpeace has called upon Grasim's viscose staple fibre factory at Mavoor in Kerala to recompense for environmental and health damage, holding that the corporate should be held
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Feast or famine
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal related how, after receiving a Greenpeace fax, Novartis, the big Swiss drug and biochemicals company, instantly agreed to stop using genetically engineered
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Govt warned over incineration of medical waste
Environmental non-government organisation(NGOs) Greenpeace and Shrishti have decried the use of incinerators for disposal of bio-medical wastes in hospitals and nursing homes. The bio-medical waste
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NGOs warn against World Bank aided incinerator project
India is among 20 countries that will bear the brunt of pollution caused by poison producing medical waste incinerators promoted by the World Bank, cautioned two prominent NGOs, Greenpeace said
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HK plans regular dioxin tests on imported food
Hong Kong is to monitor dioxin levels in food from mainland China, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the European Union, Greenpeace said. "Hong Kong did
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Environemntalists protests in Spain
Some 50 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace protested outside Spain's Donana park, a year after a toxic mud spill caused an ecological
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Ecowarriors make peace
For corporate image makers, few adversaries are more unnerving than a pressure group such as Greenpeace. Its aggressive campaigns against prominent companies including Hoechst, Novartis, Monsanto,
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Greenpeace scores victory over gene free food supply
Greenpeace International recently scrored victory on account of two developments in the area of genetically modified free food supply. One of them was regarding Monsanto, which announced that it had
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Genetically-modified beans dumped at Blair's office
Greenpeace activists dumped four tones of genetically-modified soya beans outside Prime Minister Tony Blari's office to protest his statement that bioengineered food is safe to eat. The
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Alert against hazards of ship-breaking yeards
Greenpeace, an environmental organisation, has sounded a ship-breaking alert. The first technical and environmental data gathered by the outfit on the toxic contamination caused by ship-breaking in
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DOW chemicals plant in Brazil pollutes estuary
Greenpeace activists from Brazil, Argentina, Spain, U.S., Germany and Ghana cemented a discharge pipe belonging to Dow Chemicals plant in Guaruja, Sao Paulo. The pipe hidden in a mangrove area was
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Eco, labour-unfriendly modes at Alang to be highlighted
Greenpeace and several Indian trade unions, will raise the issue of poor environmental and labour standards at the Alang-Sosiya ship-breaking site, reputedly the biggest of its kind in the world.
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Toy story
Christmas 1998's scare comes courtesy of the environmentalist movement. Earlier this year, Greenpeace activists raided a Hong Kong outlet of the Toys "R" Us chain, pulling baby toys from the shelves.
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Greenpeace locates burning whaling ship
First year without Antarctic whale hunting since 1904? : Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise has located the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru drifting in the Coral Sea, 640 miles east of Mackay,
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Ship-breakers see red in Greenpeace protest
The Greenpeace action preventing a freighter, 'Encounter Bay,' destined for Alang, from leaving Barcelona last Monday claiming it could be detrimental to the health of "ill equipped workers," who
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17 million US$ Cogema operation fails to recover radioactive waste off Normandy coast
Greenpeace has denounced as "ill-conceived" the plans by the French plutonium company COGEMA to dredge the sea bed around its La Hague reprocessing plant. The Director of the state-controlled plant,
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Greenpeace releases first report card on the Sydney Olympic Games
With just two years until the start of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Greenpeace released the first Report Card of Sydney's environmental track record to date. The Environmental Report Card shows a