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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Thailand
Labelling of genetically modified (gm) food will be made compul sory in Thailand by the end of year 2001. This decision follows a ban on gm field trails in the country. Thai land is one of the
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Destruction of marine life
activists of Greenpeace, the international pressure group, have raised concerns about toxic sludge being dumped in the Mediterranean sea near Selaata, off the Lebanese coast. The sludge, dumped
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MEXICO
The Mexican government has been asked to create a whale sanctuary to protect whales from being hunted by the Japanese. International environmental pressure group, Greenpeace, along with a few other
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Athens chokes
Air pollution kills 1,342 Greeks every year
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UK to reduce waste
the uk plans to reduce its nuclear sea discharges by up to 85 per cent by 2020 to meet its European commitments, announced Michael Meacher, the country's environment minister. He said the
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A war of words
Having run into trouble, a waste copper recycling plant in Goa writes to Greenpeace
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Documenting dissent
AFTER Rachel Carson's passionate polemic Silent Spring was published in 1962, environmentalism in the West assumed urgency and a sense of purpose. The pervasive popularity of this particular
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Solar, wind power
solar and wind power projects will prove to be profitable if governments and oil companies get behind them, speakers told a Greenpeace business conference recently. "To get such a different
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The Bhopal legacy
In May 1999, Greenpeace International, along with the Bhopal-based NGOs Bhopal Group for Information and Action and Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatana, carried out an investigation of the former UCIL site. Samples of soil were collected both from areas once used for waste disposal, and around the former Sevin plant, where a ruptured and leaking storage tank was found.
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Clean act
The Philippines finally enacts a law to reduce pollution<br> <br>