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'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 >>
Rainbow Warrior exposes Papuan forest destruction
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 10:43 am | Greenpeace
Sorong, Papua, Indonesia, Tuesday April 11, 2006: Greenpeace activists today discovered a consignment of plywood from some of the world's most endangered forests in Indonesia where at least 76% of logging is illegal[1]. More >>
McDonald's linked to Amazon destruction
Friday, 7 April 2006, 11:59 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace investigation links fast food giants to Amazon destruction Campaign launched to hold McDonald's accountable More >>
European GMO Conference: A Missed Opportunity
Friday, 7 April 2006, 10:28 am | Greenpeace
Vienna - Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have today warned that Europe's food and farming will be widely contaminated if genetically modified crops are grown in Europe. The warning came at the end of a European Commission conference which failed ... More >>
GE Contamination in Spain: a warning for Europe
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 9:05 am | Greenpeace
Vienna, 4 April 2006--The spiralling uptake of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Spain is causing massive genetic contamination, threatens the livelihood of farmers and urgently needs to be suspended, says Greenpeace. In a new report More >>
Busted in Brazil: Environmental Crimes
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:11 pm | Greenpeace
International — A land-grabber who has destroyed untold swaths of forest in the Amazon and a Swiss multinational illegally growing genetically engineered crops near a protected nature reserve. Both targeted by Greenpeace, both now facing action by the government ... More >>
The Numbers Game: Forest Destruction
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:08 pm | Greenpeace
International — Imagine a football pitch as you've seen it many times. It's a bit less than one hectare in area. Now imagine that same football pitch packed end-to-end with a pile of wood around twice the height of Mt. Everest. That's the amount of ... More >>
UN to drop nuclear bombshell: Sensational leak
Monday, 3 April 2006, 7:05 pm | Greenpeace
Vienna, Austria — A sensational leaked document obtained today by Greenpeace reveals that the head of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is considering realigning the agency's mission from promoting nuclear power towards renewable energy. More >>
Greenpeace calls the Earth Summit a failure
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:34 am | Greenpeace
As the two-week long world summit on biodiversity drew to a close, Greenpeace described the outcome as major failure - a missed opportunity to stop the global loss of life in the world's forests and oceans. More >>
Warning to Pacific: Unmasking pirates in Oceans
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 10:06 pm | Greenpeace
Guinea: As new evidence emerges of fish being stolen from one of the poorest regions of the world, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Oceans Team Leader Nilesh Goundar has called on Pacific Island Countries to close their ports to pirate fishing boats, ... More >>
China's pivotal role in laundering illegal timber
Wednesday, 29 March 2006, 9:51 am | Greenpeace
Beijing, March 28, 2006 -- China is central to the laundering of illegal timber from some of the world's most endangered forests, according to a new investigative report by Greenpeace. The trade is driven by domestic and international demand in the USA, ... More >>
