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Environmental activists from Greenpeace dumped two tonnes of genetically modified maize at Novartis AG's Basle headquarters and demanded the company pull gene-altered seeds from the market.But
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PVC producer EIL discharges more toxics than it recently leaked into Haifa Bay
Greenpeace activists closed Akko's public beach because of the ongoing pollution of the plastic PVC producer "Electrochemical Industries Ltd (EIL). Two weeks ago, 20 tons of the carcinogenic
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Greenpeace warns of doomsday ahead
Warning that 25,000 species could die out before the new millennium, Greenpeace renewed its call on Thursday to protect ancient forests and depleted fish stocks and switch to cleaner energy. The
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The limits to growth?
Like the multinational companies it frequently clashes with, Greenpeace, the noisiest of all environmental campaign groups, has a constant struggle to stimulate demand for its products. Like those
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Greenpeace reveals plutonium company's flawed efforts to capture radioactive particles
Greenpeace revealed that Cogema, the operator of the state-owned La Hague reprocessing plant, has installed inadequate equipment off the plant's discharge pipe, 30 meters under the sea, in a flawed
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Big fishing boats threaten fish stocks and jobs alike
Greenpeace released a report detailing the expansion of the capacity, or fishing power, of the world's industrial fishing fleet over the past few years. The report "Assessment of the World's Fishing
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Greenpeace launches "Year of the Ocean" activities in Mediterranean
The Greenpeace Meditarranean office launched its "Year of the Ocean" activities with an appeal to all peoples in the basin to sign an anti-pollution petition linked to the 1976 Barcelona Convention.
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- French 'against modified maize'
Most French people do not want to eat genetically engineered food and say France should reverse its decision to allow farmers to grow genetically altered maize, Greenpeace, the environmental group
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- Greenpeace forest actions end in Glasgow, continue in Frankfurt
Four Greenpeace activists who boarded the shipment of ancient Canadian rainforest timber and pulp were served with an injunction to prevent them from holding up the ship, the 'Saga Wind', run by Saga
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Greenpeace protests in Walheim against castor transport
Greenpeace activists climbed up the smokestack of the coal power plant in Walheim, Baden-Wurttemberg at a height of about 50 meters, the climbers suspended a banner saying "Stop Castor!". Within the
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Greenpeace protests against logging plan
Greenpeace protested against Chilean plans to allow a major logging project in the rain forest of the far southern Tierra Del Fuego region. Members of the group demonstrated in the capital in front
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New York city offers help while city of Philadelphia turns its back
Nearly 10 years to the day after the infamous cargo ship Khian Sea dumped 4,000 tons of Philadelphia's toxic incinerator ash on the beach in Haiti, Greenpeace and Haiti Communications Project
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Alarm over unknown DNA in GM soya
Greenpeace, the environmental group, raised and alarm on Wednesday by announcing that a new study revealed unknown DNA in Monsanto's Ready Roundup soyabean, while claiming the genetically engineered
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'GM crops no solution to sustainable farm output'
Greenpeace, a global environment group, has accused the world's Governments of failing to fulfill their commitment to reduce world hunger, while ignoring the methods of agriculture that are
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Greenpeace charge on GM rice research
Open field trials of genetically engineered (GM) rice containing human genes are being carried out in the heart of California's traditional rice growing region, according to Greenpeace. The
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Manila urged to label GMO foods
The environmental group, Greenpeace, urged the Philippines on Wednesday to impose mandatory labelling on food products containing genetically-modified organisms, saying recent tests showed massive
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Greenpeace protesters clash with Japanese whalers
The crew of Japanese whaling ship used super-powered water cannon in a battle with anti-whaling demonstrators in the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean, Greenpeace said.
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Ex-Greenpeace boss joins Monsanto PR firm
Lord Melchett, the former head of environmental group Greenpeace, is to join a public relations firm which includes controversial genetic food (GM) firm Monsanto Co among its clients, his new bosses
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Greenpeace seeks seizure of Amazonian timber
Greenpeace has taken the government to court in a bid to force it to seize a cargo of Amazonian mahogany which it says has been imported illegally. The 811-cubic-metre cargo aboard the ship MV Cunene
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Greenpeace flays Govt.'s go-ahead to Bt cotton
Greenpeace has denounced the decision of India' Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) to allow commercialisation of Monsanto's Bt cotton variety. "Many, many important ecological questions