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Kyoto Countries take vital step
Sunday, 28 May 2006, 1:32 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Bonn, Germany May 25, 2006 - The Parties to the Kyoto Protocol have taken the first step towards agreeing new and deeper cuts in Co2 emissions for the period after Kyoto's first commitment period ends in 2012. At a meeting late last night in Bonn, delegates ... More >>
Radioactivity in ground water over 7x limits
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 10:09 am | Greenpeace
Radioactive waste from a storage facility in Normandy, France is leaking into groundwater and is being used by local farmers for their dairy cattle, according to a report published today by French laboratory ACRO (1). Water contamination from the CSM waste ... More >>
US commodities giant slammed for Amazon crimes
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 8:53 am | Greenpeace
London/Paris 22 May 2006 - To mark the UN's International Day for Biological Diversity today, Greenpeace activists continued their global actions against the world's largest privately-owned company, US commodities giant, Cargill, for destroying the Amazon ... More >>
Greenpeace shuts down soya export terminal
Saturday, 20 May 2006, 2:59 pm | Greenpeace
Sao Paulo/London 19 May 2006 - A team of climbers from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise shut down Cargill's illegal soya export facility in the heart of the Amazon rainforest today. The soya, which is exported to Europe as animal feed, is grown ... More >>
Polish GE seed ban big step towards sustainability
Friday, 19 May 2006, 9:11 am | Greenpeace
Poland 18th May 2006 - Greenpeace welcomed the ban on the sale of genetically engineered (GE) seeds, which was approved yesterday by the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski. The signing by the President was the final step for the GE ban to come into force, ... More >>
KFC exposed for trashing the Amazon rainforest
Friday, 19 May 2006, 9:10 am | Greenpeace
Sao Paulo/Rio, Brazil 17th May 2006 - Greenpeace volunteers unfurled a 300 square metre banner in a massive area of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest this morning with the words 'KFC - Amazon Criminal' - in advance of Kentucky Fried Chicken's (KFC) ... More >>
Oz Nuclear expansion means Australian waste dumps
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:54 am | Greenpeace
Sydney, Tuesday 16 May, 2006: The Pacific will become a nuclear highway and Australia the world's nuclear waste dump if John Howard's nuclear fuel leasing plan is taken seriously in North America this week, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Greenpeace warns of Australian PM's nuclear plans
Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 12:41 am | Greenpeace
Sydney, Tuesday 16 May, 2006: The Pacific will become a nuclear highway and Australia the world's nuclear waste dump if John Howard's nuclear fuel leasing plan is taken seriously in North America this week, Greenpeace said today. More >>
Canberra not trusted on uranium trade with India
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 1:10 pm | Greenpeace
Sydney, Thursday May 11, 2006: Australian overtures to pave the way for uranium sales to India, reported in The Australian newspaper today, have raised alarm bells with Australian environmentalists. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19097027-601,00.html More >>
$1Bn Clean Energy Fund Not enough Says Greenpeace
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:13 am | Greenpeace
Hyderabad, 06 May 2006: As a direct result of intense campaigning by Greenpeace and the Solar Generation during the 39th Annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank, the ADB today announced a "pipeline of clean energy projects worth $1 billion by ... More >>
'Climate scientists' about politics and business
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 10:18 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Auckland**, Monday 1 May 2006**: *The newly formed group of ‘climate scientists’ is about politics and big business, not science, says Greenpeace. More >>
Spain' s oldest nuclear power plant shut down
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 9:37 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
-Greenpeace is celebrating the permanent shutdown of Spain's oldest nuclear power station, which was finally closed yesterday following years of intense campaigning by environmental and social groups highlighting serious safety concerns at the plant. More >>
Greenpeace stops Amazon soya entering Europe
Monday, 1 May 2006, 10:55 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 29th April 2006 - Sixty Greenpeace activists (1) today prevented commodities giant Cargill from unloading a shipment of Amazon soya in Amsterdam port, to protest against the destruction of huge tracts of the Amazon rainforest to grow soya to feed ... More >>
Greenpeace Chernobyl Anniversary statement
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 3:39 pm | Greenpeace
Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster we must reflect on the impact of the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power. Chernobyl was not simply an industrial accident. More >>
Greenpeace: The 20th anniversary of Chernobyl
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:06 am | Greenpeace
Amsterdam, 26th April 2006 - Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster we must reflect on the impact of the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power. Chernobyl was not simply an industrial accident. It was a human tragedy on ... More >>
Wake Up! Our Fish is Being Stolen
Monday, 24 April 2006, 11:58 am | Greenpeace
CATCHLINE.. South Pacific countries are sitting on a time bomb if pirate fishing is not contained within two to three years as key species of fish in the Pacific Ocean will be critically over fished. More >>
Drop Charges On Our Activists Immediately
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 1:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
*Suva**, Fiji** Islands, April 19, 2006*: Drop charges against our Ocean Defenders immediately - that's the word from Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Team Leader Nilesh Goundar. Mr Goundar made the call in writing to two Indian Commissioners based ... More >>
Activists occupy Monsanto GE facility In France
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 8:45 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Trebes, France 13th April 2006: Massive police presence as Greenpeace, Jose Bove from Faucheurs Volontaires and Confederation Paysanne occupied Monsanto's seed facility in Trebes, France. Over 75 activists have occupied the facility and are currently ... More >>
Whalers return: Greenpeace demands decommissioning
Saturday, 15 April 2006, 1:43 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Tokyo, 14 April 2006 -- The Japanese whaling fleet – centre of a series of dramatic encounters with Greenpeace anti-whaling protestors earlier this year - returns to port today facing a collapse in commercial support, discredited science and too few ... More >>
Right to Know Bill good for people and planet
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 2:31 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today urged the public and all political parties to support Sue Kedgley's "Consumer right to know" labelling bill. More >>
