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Homicide okay, trespass - no way

Greenpeace activists and local residents were brutally treated by police as they began a project to clean up a toxic site in Bhopal, India.

Dow - caring for the community

The Dow Chemicals website says the company makes a "distinctive contribution" to our world and its people. Do they ever!

Proposed smelter will destroy Patagonia

The raw materials will come from Australia, Brazil and Jamaica. The finished product will go to the US and Japan. But the massive environmental damage? Well, that stays with the Chilean locals forever.

The price of oil

A ruptured oil tanker has sunk off the coast of Spain. If everyone used renewable energy -like wind, solar, and wave power and clean fuels like hydrogen - would we have to witness another environmental disaster like this? We think not.

Urgent calls for WTO reform

With the bright colours and loud music you could be mistaken for thinking you were at a rock concert. But underlying the festive atmosphere was an urgent call for reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Mahogany saved, toothfish flounders

Greenpeace welcomes the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) vote to protect mahogany. We’re disappointed though, at CITES’s decision to let toothfish flounder.

Look out, whalers about

The Fisheries Agency of Japan has sent a five-vessel whaling fleet down to Antarctica to hunt 440 minke whales for “scientific research”.

Fair trade, not free trade

Greenpeace will have a presence at protests against the World Trade Organisation’s meetings in Sydney. Greenpeace advocates for global social justice, environmental accountability and sustainable trade. Many WTO’s policies undermine these goals.

Kids call on CITES

Whales, elephants and jaguars may become mythical creatures to children in the future. On a mission to prevent these species from extinction, kids from all around the world marched on the CITES meeting in Santiago, Chile.

Bhopal survivors stand up to Dow

After months of travelling Europe demanding justice, survivors of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster have entered the Dow building in Milan, to deliver their message.

Just popping in

Greenpeace has surprised Australian embassy officials in Buenos Aires by dropping in and unfurling a banner from the embassy itself.

Scaling new heights

Greenpeace climbers have scaled one of the most difficult vertical climbs in Australia – the “Totem Pole” in Tasmania – to draw attention to pirate fishing.