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Double trouble for nuclear power: UK and Bulgaria projects collapse

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | April 4, 2012 5 comments

Yet more news in the past week about how bad an investment nuclear power is. In Bulgaria a plan to build a nuclear power plant was cancelled while in the UK plans to build two new plants were thrown into chaos. First, on March 28, ... Read more >

Illegal Farm in the Amazon: Not For Sale

Blog entry by Jess Miller | April 4, 2012

Activists from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior joined local community members from the Resex Verde para Sempre Reserve today to declare an end to the sale of an illegal farm inside the protected area. The "Not for Sale" sign... Read more >

New hope for the Grand Canyons of the oceans

Blog entry by John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA | April 4, 2012

Today, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council initiated a new process that could lead to protections for the largest underwater canyons in the world , located in Alaska's Bering Sea. The decision came in response to requests... Read more >

Greenpeace staff blocked from entering South Korea as Government cracks down on...

Blog entry by Greenpeace Press Realease | April 2, 2012

Seoul, South Korea, 2 April, 2012: Three Greenpeace senior staff members accompanying the organisation’s International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo were today denied entry and deported from South Korea, highlighting the... Read more >

Illegal Logging exposed in the Amazon

Blog entry by Jess Miller | April 2, 2012 6 comments

After months of investigations, activists have exposed an illegal logging operation underway in public lands in the Amazon. The illegal timber was discovered inside the Rural Settlement Corta Corda, 140km from the city of Santarem,... Read more >

Yoghurt for forests! Danone drops Asia Pulp and Paper, plans zero deforestation policy.

Blog entry by Zul Fahmi, Greenpeace South East Asia | April 2, 2012 2 comments

Danone has released a statement confirming plans to phase out supplies of paper and packaging products from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). The statement, which you can read here also confirms that the company intends to develop a zero... Read more >

Captain's Blog: The Warrior sets sails on the Amazon

Blog entry by Pete Willcox, Captain of the Rainbow Warrior | March 30, 2012 11 comments

It's 10.30 at night. I am fighting a cold, and feel like a hammered horseshoe. I look out from behind my curtain and say, "Give it a rest". Angelo, our third mate quickly retreats. This is the Italian Stallion's first trip with... Read more >

With rights come responsibilities

Blog entry by Frida Bengtsson, Greenpeace Nordic | March 29, 2012

I’m in sunny Stockholm this week, spring is here for sure and woolly hats and gloves are yet again stored away for next winter.  In a grand Natural History museum not so far from where I work sit scientists, Indigenous representatives,... Read more >

Obama goes back to the future with Shell in the Arctic

Blog entry by Dan Howells, Greenpeace USA | March 29, 2012 2 comments

We've just heard that a federal judge in Alaska has decided to impose a powerful legal injunction on Greenpeace US which prohibits even legal protests within a certain distance of Shell’s vessels involved in Arctic drilling... Read more >

Calls from the Forest to Save the Amazon

Blog entry by Jess Miller | March 28, 2012 3 comments

After two days of travel through the Amazon, the Rainbow Warrior arrived today in Santarem. Just a few days ago, we called on you to join Brazilians, as they demand a Zero Deforestation law to Save the Amazon. Today, we are in... Read more >

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