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Greenpeace stops giant coal excavator, condemns coal-addicted Czech Republic's role...

Press release | 13 November, 2008 at 11:16

Thirty Greenpeace activists have stopped the operation of a giant excavator in one of the largest lignite mines in the Czech Republic. Greenpeace is demanding the Czech Republic closes the CSA mine by 2012, commits to progressively decreasing its...

Briefing : Radioactivity in Akokan

Publication | 26 November, 2009 at 10:41

Noveber 2009 Greenpeace expedition to AREVA uranium mines in Niger found high levels of radioactivity in the nearby town of Akokan where villagers are exposed daily.

UglyFood: the other truth about chemical fertilisers in China

Blog entry by Alessandro Saccoccio | 16 April, 2013 2 comments

We recently blogged about a Greenpeace East Asia investigation which uncovered the ‘ugly side of food’, and exposed a phosphate fertilizers manufacturing scandal in Sichuan, China . We also sadly witnessed how chemical fertilizers...

World Leaders block shipment of Arctic coal at the top of the world

Press release | 2 October, 2009 at 13:27

Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and other world leaders today finally took action on climate change by preventing a shipment of coal from being loaded onto a transport ship from a mine in Svalbard, 1400 km from the North Pole. The activist heads of...

Under threat

Background | 20 June, 2002 at 18:14

Logging and other resource extraction such as mining pose a serious threat to Russia's Snow Forests.

Dam collapse creates environmental disaster in Brazil

Video | 18 November, 2015 at 10:40

Mud – full of dangerous metals – quickly overtook the nearby mining community of Mariana in Minas Gerais state. At least seventeen people were killed. Hundreds more have been displaced by the wall of sludge released in the dam collapse. Music:...

Daily News: Chinese coal plants keeping the planet cool; Greenpeace’s new Warrior...

Blog entry by Josh S | 5 July, 2011

Top news: Sulphur emitted by China’s coal plants thought to belie true extent of global warming; Greenpeace’s new flagship – the Rainbow Warrior III – tests the water in Germany; Japan’s minister in charge of tsunami clean-up quits his...

How electricity is made.

Image | 27 November, 2008 at 1:00

How electricity is made.

New Zealand's march against mining

Image | 6 May, 2010 at 14:49

01 May - New Zealand. Lucy Lawless joins 40,000 people as they march against the New Zealand Government's plans to mine coal in thousands of hectares of prime conservation land, including National Parks. Find out more .

Daily News: Japan scraps plans to build new nuclear reactors, while Chile approves...

Blog entry by Alexa P | 11 May, 2011 2 comments

Top news: Japanese Prime Minister abandons plans to build 14 new nuclear reactors; five hydroelectric dams are approved by Chilean authorities; Greenpeace exposes cover-ups at a German nuclear plant; Turkey faces a potentially...

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