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NEW DELHI, India — In an early morning wake-up call, Greenpeace activists today confronted Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of Orissa, with evidence of his government's ineptitude and inability to protect the endangered Olive Ridley turtles...

BHUBANESWAR, India — Greenpeace today confronted the Chief Wildlife Warden of Orissa, with an 'I Witness' report of the mass deaths of Olive Ridley turtles on the beaches of Orissa. Activists bearing crosses and posters with pictures of dead...

BANGALORE/HANNOVER, Germany — As electronic industry leaders gather in Hanover, Germany today, at the world’s largest electronics fair, CeBit, Greenpeace activists erected a Giant robot, at the main entrance, made from electronic waste to remind...

NEW DELHI, India — In response to the French Government's decision to recall their warship, Le Clemenceau, to France, Greenpeace invited members of the Indian ship-breaking association to take advantage of the opportunity to transform the Indian...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace activists were prevented from delivering protest bags, each an individual petition, with the message, 'France, your waste kills!' to the French embassy in India. The French Ambassador refused to accept the 1200...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace activists took the campaign against the illegal import of the Clemenceau to the doorstep of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), holding up a banner stating 'Don't make India a waste dump' and lining up...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today launched a postcard signature campaign to capture the groundswell of opinion among citizens against the arrival of the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau.

Greenpeace activists who climbed the Clemenceau and chained themselves to its mast for over 30 hours, today disembarked from the aircraft carrier following the decision of the Egyptian EPA to deny the Clemenceau passage through the Suez Canal.

Greenpeace activists today intercepted and boarded the French aircraft carrier, the Clemenceau, raising the stakes in the international row over the decommissioning of the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau, which has been sent to India for...

NEW DELHI, India — As the Clemenceau, an end-of-life French military ship, starts its journey from France to India for dismantling, Greenpeace activists demonstrated outside the French embassy in India today to alert the international community...

TOULON/ NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace , Corporate Accountability Desk and Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) called on the French Authorities not to scrap the decommissioned warship Clemenceau in India at the world wide release of a report ...

BANGALORE, India — Nearly ten weeks after Greenpeace activists first exhorted WIPRO to 'Apply Thought', WIPRO has responded to the challenge and taken initial steps towards reducing the burden of their electronic waste on the planet. At a meeting...

BHOPAL, India — At a press conference today leaders of several survivors and support organizations in Bhopal presented photographic evidence of "unscientific and unsafe" repacking of chemical waste inside the Union Carbide factory by M/s Ramky...

BEIJING, China — Scientists say a catalogue of environmental damage linked to climate change is pushing the Yellow River source region into an ecological breakdown, in a new survey commissioned by Greenpeace.

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace activists today delivered nearly 500 kilos of assorted electronic waste to the corporate headquarters of Wipro in Bangalore, to highlight the growing menace of dangerous chemicals being released to the environment...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today released a report of their scientific analysis of waste-waters, ashes, soils and sediments from electronic waste (e-waste) recycling yards in India and China. The report conclusively proves that toxic chemicals...

NEW DELHI, India — On the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, a peace contingent – activists from Greenpeace, along with children from Delhi schools – delivered to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh 30,000 peace boats and a...

HYDERABAD, India — Greenpeace activists delivered bucket-loads of toxic sludge from the industrial estates in Medak district to the office of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) in Hyderabad today. Unfurling a banner demanding...