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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.
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Alien VS. Predator
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 9:44 am | Greenpeace
Dublin, November 1st 2004: -- Alien-like species of the deep are being destroyed by EU bottom trawlers despite pledges to protect them. At a press conference in Dublin today dozens of mysterious creatures from the deep ocean, including green-eyed sharks, ... More >>
Obsolete Toxic Ship Dumping To Be Controlled
Monday, 1 November 2004, 9:25 am | Greenpeace
Geneva, Switzerland. 29 October 2004 -- The global trade in toxic ships for scrap was dealt a serious blow today in Geneva when the Basel Convention affirmed that ships can be considered toxic waste under international law and that its 163 signatories ... More >>
IEA's World Energy Outlook Runs Out Of Control
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 10:45 am | Greenpeace
Greenpeace today criticized the International Energy Agency (IEA) to fail to properly assess the world's energy trends for the next decades in its ''World Energy Outlook 2004'' which was presented today. More >>
Sustainable Energy Debate Well Overdue
Wednesday, 27 October 2004, 5:45 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 27 October 2004: Greenpeace today welcomed the Government’s release of the Sustainable Energy Report. More >>
How Much More Evidence Does The UN Need?
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 3:41 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
North Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2004*: Black-fleshed, luminous green-eyed sharks from the depths of the ocean lie dead on the deck of the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza, yet another example of the failure of nations to protect deep sea life. More >>
How much more evidence does the UN need?
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 9:47 am | Greenpeace
North Atlantic Ocean, 23 October 2004: Black-fleshed, luminous green-eyed sharks from the depths of the ocean lie dead on the deck of the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza, yet another example of the failure of nations to protect deep sea life. More >>
Image From Spainish Trawler Bycatch
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 1:12 pm | Greenpeace
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EU fleet exposed destroying deep sea life
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 8:49 am | Greenpeace
North Atlantic Ocean, 18 October 2004 -- The needless destruction of the high seas was exposed by Greenpeace this morning, after documenting a EU bottom trawler operating in the North Atlantic. More >>
E.U. fleet exposed destroying deep sea life
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 12:57 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
North Atlantic Ocean, 19 October 2004 -The needless destruction of the high seas was exposed by Greenpeace this morning, after documenting a EU bottom trawler operating in the North Atlantic. More >>
Government of Japan: Don’t empty our oceans!
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 9:11 am | Greenpeace
Bangkok - Greenpeace activists today held a peaceful demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy to demand that the government of Japan vote in favour of the conservation of marine species at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (1). More >>
Fate of Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger hopeful
Monday, 11 October 2004, 11:55 am | Greenpeace
Bangkok — Greenpeace welcomes the decision of the world’s governments to take stricter measures to control the widespread criminal trade in ramin timber from the endangered habitat of the Orang-utan and the Sumatran Tiger. Given the high volume of illegal ... More >>
USA's nuke deadly cargo travels across France
Friday, 8 October 2004, 10:40 am | Greenpeace
Cadarache, France, 7 October 2004 - Five Greenpeace climbers have hung a 10x10m "Stop Plutonium" banner just above the entrance of the Mirabeau Tunnel - five kilometres from Cadarache - where a shipment of U.S. plutonium is due to arrive later today. ... More >>
US plutonium shipment arrives in France
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 9:10 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 6 October 2004 - Despite growing public and political concern about nuclear proliferation, one of two lightly armed UK-flagged commercial nuclear cargo ship - Pacific Pintail - arrived in Cherbourg today. French nuclear company ... More >>
DOW – Sort Deadly Legacy Now
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:51 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Greenpeace today said DOW needs to be held accountable and accept full responsibility for the health effects it has caused to the Vietnam veterans and their children. More >>
Sort Deadly Legacy Now
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 3:48 pm | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland 6-Oct-2004 – Greenpeace today said DOW need to be held accountable and accept full responsibility for the health effects it has caused to the Vietnam veterans and their children. More >>
Hidden Depths & Dangers In Earth's Last Wilderness
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 2:58 pm | Greenpeace
London, 5th October 2004: The destruction of ancient marine ecosystems, giant squid, snot eels, the possible extinction of species and whole habitats crushed under giant machinery - not the latest science fiction movie, but scientific fact. More >>
Activists block road to be used by US nuke convoy
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 9:46 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, October 5th 2004 - Greenpeace activists today blocked the road to be used for transporting 140 kilograms of U.S. weapons plutonium after its imminent arrival in France. A truck was bolted and secured to the main road (D901) between ... More >>
Call For UN Action On Bottom Trawling
Wednesday, 6 October 2004, 12:21 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Wellington, Wednesday 6 October: The New Zealand Government took the lead on driftnet fishing and should step forward and do the same with high seas bottom trawling, environmentalists said today. More >>
Nuclear industry attempt to ban Greenpeace protest
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 9:19 am | Greenpeace
Cherbourg, France, 4 October 2004 - Greenpeace has been summoned to appear in the Cherbourg Court tomorrow, where it will face a request by Areva, through its subsidiary Cogema, and British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL), for an injunction preventing it from ... More >>
Greenpeace NZ Heralds Russia Ratifying Kyoto
Friday, 1 October 2004, 10:17 am | Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland: Greenpeace today heralded the news that the Russian Government has given the green light to the climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (1), as a major step forward, but warned that New Zealand needed to take the issue more seriously. More >>
