Sustainability and Justice in the High Seas
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
Greenpeace
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Taiwan agrees to shut down nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island
A 25-year-long battle in Taiwan between the area's government and indigenous people has culminated with the government agreeing to shut down a nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island by 2016. The island,
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Greepeace accuses Exxon of aiding research against climate change
A Greenpeace report on May 18 accused oil major ExxonMobil of aiding research against the impacts of climate change. "ExxonMobil is still giving grants to research organisations that question the
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Seeds of Dissent
The apex court nod to GM seed trials raises issues. GM seeds: Trial's not yet over
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Biodiversity assessment of Dhamra Port site and surrounding areas, Orissa
This study is concerned with the Dhamra port site in Bhadrak district, near the mouth of the Dhamra river, and surrounding areas. The proposed port site is a unique habitat in that it has long stretches of inter-tidal mudflats from the site up till the river mouth. The inter-tidal zone is in some places as wide as two kilometers, and serves as an important breeding ground for
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News snippets
>> it giant, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, has announced a competition on designing sustainable computer labs for use in developing countries. The
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Greenpeace wants Centre to rethink energy policy
On March 28, Greenpeace activists beamed huge slides on to the cooling tower of the National Thermal Power Corporation Plant at Dadri, to spread a message on climate change. "Stop Climate
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HC pans UK 2006 energy review procedures
on february 15, 2007, ruling in favour of environmental group Greenpeace, a uk court said the consultation process for the government's 2006 energy review report was "seriously flawed', "misleading'
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Just talk, no promises at Asia Europe meet
leaders from 25 European and 13 Asian nations have adopted a declaration to fight global warming, among other things, at the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held at Helsinki on September 10-11,
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Mark of protest
On July 27, a group of Greenpeace activists entered a field of genetically engineered maize in southern France and carved a giant "crop circle' with an "X' in the field. The action, taken to mark the
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In Court
blind eye: An environment court of New Zealand has rejected the first part of the Greenpeace appeal, which opposed re-firing of the Marsden B coal power station, near Whangarei district, due to its