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Greenpeace says impacts of global warming more important than politics

Press release | April 3, 2007 at 17:00

Greenpeace today challenged the Harper government to announce, without any further delay, what it plans to do to reduce global warming pollution as United Nations scientists meet in Brussels to highlight the severity of coming climate change.

Dead zones - cover

Dead zones - cover

Image | June 30, 2008 at 17:00

Dead zones - cover

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Publication | July 7, 2008 at 17:00

Fertilizer run-off from industrial agriculture is choking the planet’s oceans, rivers and lakes. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution feed explosive algae blooms that suck the oxygen from the water as they grow. These algae blooms result in dead...

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Dead Zones: How Agricultural Fertilizers are Killing our Rivers, Lakes and Oceans

Feature story | July 7, 2008 at 17:00

Last year, many Canadians had their summer holiday at the lake interrupted by the appearance of toxic dead zones caused by hazardous algae blooms. In Western Canada, Lake Winnipeg experienced record algae pollution which has doubled in the last...

Opposition to Uranium Mining

Blog entry by Shawn Patrick Stensil | July 8, 2008 5 comments

There’s been a media frenzy this week over Cameco’s purchase of 550 tonnes of uranium or “yellowcake” from Iraq. Aside from highlighting the link between nuclear power and the nuclear weapons proliferation, the import of Saddam’s...

Gulf of Mexico

Page | July 8, 2008 at 9:55

The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico (US) - By Henry Steinberg: First came Hurricane Katrina, taking their houses. Now the Dead Zone is taking their hope. The shrimpers on Grand Isle, Louisiana, are hit hardest by an environmental disaster that...

Gulf of California

Page | July 8, 2008 at 9:55

They are less than a millimetre in size yet you can see them from space. Each November and April, with clockwork precision, small algae start to multiply by the billion, forming gargantuan algae blooms in the pristine waters of the Gulf of...

Welcome President Obama: Climate Leaders Don't Buy Tar Sands

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | February 19, 2009

President Obama was extended a warm Canadian welcome yesterday morning when Greenpeace activists unveiled two large banners on the Alexandra Bridge in Ottawa that read Welcome President Obama and Climate Leaders Dont Buy Tar Sands. ...

EPA Declares Greenhouse Gases Endanger Public Health - What about Canada?

Blog entry by Anil Kanji | April 21, 2009

© Greenpeace / Vinai Dithajohn ?? Last Friday, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in the US declared that there was "overwhelming" evidence that "greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endanger the public health and...

Water pollution and textiles

Image gallery | June 12, 2011

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