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September 2008

Hazelwood, in Victoria, is Australia's most greenhouse polluting power station, producing about the same greenhouse emissions as 3.95 million cars per year. Enlarge image

Compo for dirty coal companies

Prime Minister Rudd has pledged around $1.2 billion dollars to polluting coal companies. It’s his way of saying sorry for the emissions trading scheme (ETS).

A child stands before the remains of a limestone hill which has been carved away and destroyed by loggers, in the rainforests of the Turama Extension logging concession, near the village of Omati, near Paia, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Enlarge image

Forest map reveals logging impacts

Using maps, we have documented the impacts of logging on forest communities and the climate.

A Greenpeace activist browses supermarket shelves for products with genetically modified ingredients. Enlarge image

Nine out of 10 Australians want all GM food labelled: poll

Ninety per cent of Australians want all genetically modified (GM) products labelled, according to a recent Newspoll poll. Further, the majority of Australians are less likely to buy food they know contains GM ingredients.

Activists from the Greepeace ship, Esperanza, aided by local landowners, halt the loading of timber onto the ship, Harbour Gemini, in Paia inlet, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. These forests are being felled by Turama Forest Industries, a group company of Malaysian company, Rimbunan Hijau. Forest destruction accounts for around 20% of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions every year. Enlarge image

We've stopped a ship loading rainforest timber

Greenpeace has stopped a ship loading piles of logged timber from the Paradise Forests.