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- Greenpeace gives Lula fireman outfit to fight Amazon blazes
- BRASILIA AFP — A group of Greenpeace activists gave Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a fireman's outfit Wednesday in a symbolic request asking him to do more to combat forest fires in the Amazon. The members of the environmental organization had to leave the suit with security...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Greenpeace says protest led Hong Kong to detain waste
- HONG KONG AFP — Three containers with suspected toxic electronic waste from the United States were detained by Hong Kong inspectors after environmental activists boarded a cargo ship, a campaigner said Sunday. The activists from Greenpeace placed a giant banner across three containers that said "Toxic Waste Not Welcomed...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Green activists take stand over tuna fishing at Brussels expo
- BRUSSELS AFP — Greenpeace activists stopped five tuna suppliers from selling their wares at a major trade fair in Brussels Wednesday by covering their stands with fishing nets, according to an AFP reporter. Around a dozen environmental activists also chained up the stands, at the European Seafood Exposition, and...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- Activists tackle tuna fishers in Pacific
- SYDNEY AFP — Ship-borne activists said Tuesday they had targeted fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in high-seas protests against the "plundering" of tuna in the Pacific. In the latest confrontation, crew from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza boarded a Taiwanese boat, the Nian Sheng 3,...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Greenpeace activists protest new nuclear plant for Rio
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Greenpeace activists set up lines of toilet seats with radioactive symbols on them in Rio de Janeiro Monday to protest the "waste" of public funds for the construction of a new nuclear power plant. Around 20 protesters stood over the toilet installation in front...
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Steamroller protest outside US embassy in Vienna over GM corn
- VIENNA AFP — Around 30 environmental activists used a steamroller to crush corn outside the US embassy in Vienna Thursday to protest alleged US pressure on Austria to accept genetically modified corn. "Greenpeace is protesting the Bush administration's threat to impose prohibitive taxes on Austrian imports if Vienna continues...
- Research articles 2008-03-20
- WORLD Tonight: Plane protest
- A NUMBER of Greenpeace activists today climbed on top of a Boeing aeroplane at Heathrow Airport as part of a climate change protest, the environment group said. Greenpeace described it as an "incredible security breach" and said the activists would be unfurling banners from on top of the Boeing 777...
- Research articles 2008-02-25
- Activists vow to carry on disrupting Japanese whaling
- SYDNEY AFP — A militant anti-whaling group vowed Friday to immediately resume harassing Japanese whalers as two of its activists were returned to their protest ship after being detained on board a harpoon vessel. The two protesters, held aboard the Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters for two days, were...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Environmentalists seal off EU building in fish quota demo
- BRUSSELS AFP — Around 200 environmental activists used barriers and concrete blocks to seal off entrances to a main European Union building in Brussels early Monday to protest over-fishing in European waters. Yellow banners marked: "Shut down until fish stocks recover" were posted by Greenpeace members near the seven...
- Research articles 2007-12-17
- Greenpeace members end Czech power plant protest
- PRAGUE AFP — Greenpeace activists Friday ended a two-day protest on top of the chimney of the biggest thermal power plant in the Czech Republic, which they say is the country's biggest polluter. "We succeeded in attracting attention about the links between the biggest Czech thermal plant which emits...
- Research articles 2007-12-07
- Greenpeace protesters block coal shipment at Spanish port
- TARRAGONA, Spain AFP — Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday blocked a shipment of coal at a port in northeastern Spain in a protest over climate change. Police arrested six protesters along with four journalists and press photographers in Greenpeace's motorised inflatable boats, near the South Korean...
- Research articles 2007-11-14
- Greenpeace nuclear protests in Finland enter third day
- HELSINKI AFP — Greenpeace activists were perched atop a crane at the building site of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor for the third straight day Wednesday to protest against security "breaches", the group said. Greenpeace demanded that a list compiled by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority containing "1,500...
- Research articles 2007-05-30
- Greenpeace in Dutch anti–coal protest
- THE HAGUE AFP — Greenpeace activists blocked Amsterdam port cranes in a high-profile attempt to stop a shipment of coal reaching Dutch nuclear power plants, a statement from the environmental group said. Live images of the demonstration were beamed onto a building in The Hague, where a meeting of...
- Research articles 2007-01-31
- Four Greenpeace activists detained in blockade of toxic waste ship
- TALLINN AFP — Four activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace were detained in an Estonian port when the group mounted a spectacular operation to prevent a ship involved in a toxic waste scandal in west Africa from setting out to sea. "Altogether we have now detained four Greenpeace activists," Tarmo...
- Research articles 2006-09-26
- Greenpeace ship leaves Marseille waters after fishermen's blockade
- MARSEILLE, France AFP — Greenpeace was forced to give up trying to get its flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, into the harbour of the southern French city of Marseille after a two-day blockade by French tuna fishermen and refusals from authorities. The environmental activist group's ship was seen leaving the...
- Research articles 2006-08-24
- Greenpeace protesters dump soya at Cargill offices in Britain
- LONDON AFP — Greenpeace activists dumped piles of soya at the US firm Cargill's offices outside London to protest against the crop being grown on parts of the Amazon rainforest that had been illegally deforested. "This morning we dumped four tonnes of soya outside the European headquarters of Cargill...
- Research articles 2006-05-22
- French 'asbestos' ship set to start Suez passage
- CAIRO AFP — France's decommissioned warship Clemenceau is set to move into the Suez canal overnight, after a 10-day delay and accusations that it posed a health hazard, officials said. "The tugging trials have been completed and we are awaiting the green light from the canal's authority to move...
- Research articles 2006-01-22
- Greenpeace protests sale of illegally caught cod in Sweden
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Environmental activists demonstrated outside Findus' Swedish headquarters in Malmoe following reports that the Scandinavian frozen foods group had sold illegally caught cod from the Barents Sea. "Findus has been exposed buying illegally caught cod from a wholesaler and then selling it on into the market. This...
- Research articles 2006-01-19
- Indian watchdog quizzes officials, activists on 'asbestos' ship
- NEW DELHI AFP — A court-appointed Indian watchdog questioned French government officials and environmental activists over an asbestos-laden French warship on its way to be dismantled at an Indian ship-breaking yard. Environmental group Greenpeace and the Ban Asbestos Network sent delegates to the 11-member Supreme Court Monitoring Commission SCMC...
- Research articles 2006-01-20
- Activists threaten to 'ram' Japan whalers, Australia rules out military action
- SYDNEY AFP — Anti-whaling activists threatened to ram Japanese whalers hunting in Antarctic waters, as Australia ruled out military intervention in the escalating conflict. "It's a civilian issue. We don't see an Australian military role," Defence Minister Robert Hill told reporters in response to calls for a navy patrol...
- Research articles 2006-01-10
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