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Hurrah! At last some good news for Pacific tuna. Eight Pacific Island nations have signed an agreement to stop foreign fishing fleets taking their tuna. Our ship the ">Esperanza has been in the Pacific for the last 7 weeks confronting unscrupulous foreign fleets that take 90% of the fish, and...
CZECH REPUBLIC: People Battle Radar Site By Zoltán Dujisin PRAGUE, May 21 (IPS) - On the early morning of Apr. 28, 20 Greenpeace activists occupied an area of the Brdy woods 90km southwest of Prague, where the Czech right-wing cabinet intends to set up a radar base that will extend the U.S....
Greenpeace: Chemical Factory in Sichuan Poses Huge Risk to Quake Survivors and Environment A chemical factory still operating in the area of China devastated by last week's earthquake poses a huge risk to local people and the environment, Greenpeace said on Wednesday. Soldiers wear facemasks in...
Greenpeace volunteers lit thousands of candles in front of a building on the Colaba seafront on Tuesday evening to prevail on its most famous resident, Ratan Tata, to shift his company's upcoming port project from Dhamra in Orissa to help save endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles.
BONN, May 21 (IPS) - One of the most frequent arguments against environmental protection is an alleged economic imperative. Humankind must progress economically, and the environment is only an input in the overall economic process, this argument goes.
It's not a new ad by Greenpeace, but it's beautiful and we've never featured it on TreeHugger before, so here it is. The central message of the ad is quite important: oceans get too little credit for their oxygen production, as well as their capacity to absorb CO2. So the next time someone...
It's all part of a new public-private initiative set forth by the Bush administration to reinvigorate its clean coal push -- especially in the wake of the demise of FutureGen, which was to be the world's first zero-emissions power plant that could bury carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The West...
We are going to go through this every year, aren’t we?! Once again, Nintendo has responded to Greenpeace’s latest claims. “Nintendo has not been badly rated by Greenpeace. Greenpeace chose to conduct a survey and produce a report, which graded companies upon the voluntary submission of...
Prague- Seven Greenpeace activists yesterday protested against the forthcoming European Nuclear Forum by projecting giant slogans warning of the risks of nuclear energy on the panorama of Hradcany, the Prague Castle that is the seat of Czech heads of state, from the nearby Legii bridge. They...
JOSEPH NAPAAQTUQ SAGE / AP Polar bears were declared a threatened species last week. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne ANCHORAGE — Conservation groups said Tuesday they are challenging Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne's attempt to limit collateral economic damage from listing polar...
