Environmental Organizations

Flood washes away barrier project qualms

Flood washes away some barrier project qualms Deluge lessens resistance to elaborate flood-prevention project Tourists and locals walk along raised wooden walkways in Venice on Tuesday after strong southern winds pushed the...

Greenpeace to pitch protest camp at UN climate talks in Poznan (AFP)

AFP - Greenpeace activists on Thursday climbed down a smokestack they scaled two days ago at a coal-fired power plant in central Poland, saying they would now pitch a protest camp at the site of UN climate talks in nearby Poznan.

Environmentalists lament EU's 'melting' climate leadership (AFP)

AFP - Greenpeace activists placed five large chunks of ice in front of the venue where EU environment ministers discussed global warming Thursday to denounce the bloc's "melting" leadership on climate change.

Sustainable forestry can help combat climate change

While agriculture and deforestation are major contributors to climate change, by the same token farmers and forest users could become key players in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says the UN Food and Agriculture...

Climate change overwhelming disaster relief: agencies

Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 3, 2008 - Climate change is overwhelming the capacity of relief agencies to cope with people made sick or homeless by natural disasters, humanitarian groups warned here on Wednesday.

WWF calls for moratorium on Arctic exploration {World Wildlife Fund, Oil & Gas}

The World Wildlife Fund, responding to a recent European Commission policy paper on the Arctic, has called for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration and development in the region until the capability has been developed for...

UN Data shows Warming has Stopped!

UN Data shows ‘Warming has Stopped!’ But by golly, that won't stop the UN from demanding trillions of dollars to 'stop global climate change', despite the fact that a myriad of recent scientific studies, many of which are peer...

The Financial Crisis Pales In Comparison to the Looming Ecological Crisis [Laitman.com]

News Report (translated from utro.ru): Following the economists, who are predicting a total crash of the current global financial system, the ecologists are sending out another warning. The World Wildlife Fund warns that the...

Greenpeace: Sony is 'significantly greener' than Microsoft or Nintendo

Filed under: News Greennpeace, an environmental organization, had put together a report on how environmentally friendly a number of leading companies are. Each company is given a score out of a possible 45 points, the higher...

Greenpeace's List Finds Electronics Companies More Naughty Than Nice

Just ask David Letterman: everyone loves a list.Its juiciness as an attention-getter has not escaped the environmental non-profit Greenpeace, which regularly issues a list rating the greenness of electronics companies.The...

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