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Greenpeace activists in the dock: Experts take ?the stand? on climate change
5 Sep 2008 at 12:00am
As expert witnesses go, they don?t come any better than Professor James Hansen, one of the world?s leading climate scientists and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Yesterday, he was called to give evidence before a UK Court on the threat posed by Kingsnorth coal fired power station to the world?s climate. Six Greenpeace activists are being charged with criminal damage after they took action last October, to highlight the threat posed by Kingsnorth. Hansen?s evidence will be crucial in establishing their defence, since whilst the defendants accept the damage they caused, they say they did so to prevent much greater damage to other property and the planet.
Rainforest timber stopped from leaving Paradise
3 Sep 2008 at 12:00am
Greenpeace has stopped a ship loading piles of logged timber from the Paradise Forests.
Great Barrier Reef saved from shale oil exploitation
25 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
It's a victory for the Whitsunday Islands and the Great Barrier Reef, with a 20-year moratorium on all new shale oil projects in the region. Led by the Save Our Foreshore group, the success shows just how powerful local, grassroots campaigns can be.
Indonesia's peat forest gains temporary protection
18 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
In a rare piece of good news for Indonesia's forest, a regional governor has announced an interim ban on deforestation in Riau, one of the areas currently worst affected by rapid deforestation. The ban, especially if made permanent, is also good news for the climate.
Boulders against bottom trawling
12 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
The fishing industry seems determined to catch every last fish in the North Sea. The governments of the region and the EU have done little to stop them, but they may soon hit a few snags: a team from Greenpeace Germany and Greenpeace Netherlands has sailed into the German North Sea and begun placing 150 granite rocks on the seabed. They are hoping that the rocks, each weighing 2-3 tonnes and measuring one square cubic metre, will prevent fishing boats from bottom trawling on the Sylt Outer Reef. This highly destructive fishing method involves a net being dragged across the seabed indiscriminately catching everything in its path.
Poisoning the poor ? Electronic Waste in Ghana
5 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.
Toxic toy legislation victory
5 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
Congress is about to send President Bush legislation that will make toys safer for little tots and infants. In an agreement announced on July 28th, Congress will ban the use of six toxic chemicals, called phthalates, that are added to vinyl plastic to make it flexible. Thank you to the 8,000 Greenpeace activists who took action and wrote their members of Congress on this very issue. Your support helped over come heavy lobbying by ExxonMobil who manufactures phthalates.
Greenpeace to sue French Nuclear Industry
1 Aug 2008 at 12:00am
Over the last month there have been a catalogue of accidents at the French nuclear site Tricastin-Pierrelatte. We?ve followed all the breaking stories on our new weblog ?Nuclear Reaction?. Now Greenpeace France has launched two court cases in an effort to find out what?s really been going on at the site.
Conning the Congo
30 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
Just as the need to save the world?s forests for climate protection is becoming widely recognised, we have discovered that major logging companies - operating in the Congo basin - are increasingly destroying one of the most ecologically important forest areas on the planet while dodging taxes and robbing impoverished Congolese people of revenue.
Twenty coal ships get new paint jobs in Australia
28 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
Greenpeace Australia Pacific activists painted coal ships waiting in a queue at Hay Point port in Queensland with messages saying "Stop coal expansion", "Barrier Reef Gone", "Ice caps gone" and "Rudd exporting CO2".
Quit Coal campaign completes Thailand tour
28 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
After successful campaigns in New Zealand and the Philippines, the Rainbow Warrior spent 21 days in Thailand as part of the "Quit Coal, Lead the Energy [R]evolution Tour" promoting solutions to climate change. The tour included human banners, port blockades and a visit to the Ministry of Energy.
Austria bans Monsanto?s GE maize
25 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
Austria has banned the import of the highly dangerous genetically engineered maize MON 863. The maize (corn) is produced by US agro-chemical giant Monsanto.
Submerged scientist slams shale oil
22 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
A world renowned coral reef scientist Dr. Charlie Veron joined Greenpeace activists underwater to make a bold statement against the shale oil industry and for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.
Whale meat scandal: Many questions
18 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
Why would we believe the whaling industry when it says it is innocent? The institutions behind the Japanese whaling operation have apparently now investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing over the whale meat embezzlement scandal exposed by Greenpeace in May.
Australian smokestack occupied for 33 hours
14 Jul 2008 at 12:00am
Greenpeace activists blockaded Australia?s most polluting coal-fired power station to call for an energy revolution.

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