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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
- Racy Greenpeace video aims to preserve forests
- THE HAGUE AFP — Environment lobby Greenpeace has released a racy video called "Forest Love," with fondling, moaning and gyrating trees to revitalise a campaign against illegal logging. The suggestive clip was meant to remind the European Commission of the importance of protecting the world's forests, said a statement...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- One man's trash …
- THIS SPRING, Mother Jones broke the news that Beckett Brown International, a DC-area private security firm managed by former Secret Service agents, spied on environmental groups and other targets on behalf of corporate clients using a range of dubious tactics, from dumpster diving and finagling phone records to infiltrating offices;...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- 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
- Greenpeace says ship harassed by tuna fishermen
- ANKARA AFP — A Greenpeace ship protesting the overfishing of bluefin tuna was targetted Friday by fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea, a spokeswoman for the environmental group told the Anatolia news agency. Five boats blocked the way of Dutch-flagged Arctic Sunrise between Turkey's southern coast and Cyprus and their...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- Greenpeace activists stage agrofuel protest in Vienna
- VIENNA AFP — About 25 Greenpeace activists, some dressed as orangutans, blocked an OMV petrol station in Vienna Thursday, accusing the Austrian oil and gas giant of destroying the rainforest to make agrofuel. A few of them brandished placards that read "OMV: no rainforest in the fuel tank." ...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Greenpeace to challenge completion of Slovak nuclear reactors
- BRATISLAVA AFP — Environmental group Greenpeace will lodge a legal challenge to Slovak authorities' go ahead for the completion of two nuclear power stations in the country's west, a representative said Wednesday. The organisation will complain to the supreme court against the go ahead for completion of Mochovce's third...
- Research articles 2008-05-28
- Greenpeace welcomes move to save Indonesia's forests
- JAKARTA AFP — Environment group Greenpeace on Friday welcomed Unilever's backing of a moratorium on palm oil deforestation in Indonesia, saying the move will help save forests in the sprawling archipelago. The Anglo-Dutch food and consumer goods company announced Thursday it would aim to use only palm oil from...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Spinning the atom: "environmentalists" are key to the industry's PR push
- Patrick Moore sits in a dark mahogany booth at the Off the Record bar across from the White House. Clad in a conservative navy blue suit, he blends comfortably with the crowd of lobbyists and politicians--a far cry from his former identity as a scruffy-faced Greenpeace leader battling nuclear power....
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- 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
- Thousands march in Spain over climate change
- MADRID AFP — Thousands marched through Madrid on Sunday to demand that the Spanish government adopt concrete measures to fight climate change, organisers said. "We demand a law against climate change that calls for an increase in the use of renewable energy and that favours saving energy," Raquel Monton,...
- Research articles 2008-04-20
- Greenpeace complains to EU over Slovak nuclear plans
- BRUSSELS AFP — The environmental group Greenpeace filed an official complaint with the European Commission on Friday, alleging illegal Slovakian state aid for a "pre-Chernobyl" nuclear power plant project. The complaint claims that the Slovak authorities used "market-distorting measures" to push through "what would otherwise have been an unviable...
- Research articles 2008-04-11
- 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
- EUROPEAN COUNCIL : ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS "EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED".
- Disappointment was the watchword for environmental defence organisations following the spring European summit of 13 and 14 March. For Greenpeace, the session was a "non-summit," a "carbon copy of last year's deal, supplemented by some misplaced protectionist language to appease heavy industry". The organisation has...
- Research articles 2008-03-20
- Greenpeace goes prehistoric to protest coal-fired plant in Germany
- BERLIN AFP — Activists from environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday placed a steel dinosaur in front of the Hamburg offices for energy giant Vattenfall to protest plans for a new coal-fired power plant. Some 30 protesters also displayed a banner saying "We are stopping dinosaur technology" and dumped three...
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- 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
- WORLD Tonight: Plane protest
- A NUMBER of Greenpeace activities today climbed on top of a Boeing aero plane at Heathrow Airport as part of 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
- Greenpeace report finds fertiliser in Philippine drinking water
- MANILA AFP — Drinking water contaminated by fertiliser has been found on a number of farms in the northern Philippines, environmental group Greenpeace said Friday. Groundwater analysis conducted by Greenpeace scientists found 30 percent of artesian wells tested in Benguet and Bulacan provinces on the main island of Luzon...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
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