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WARANGAL/ NEW DELHI, India — It’s Official Now – Bt Cotton 95% Failure. Greenpeace calls for the Central Government to Acknowledge the Truth.

COCHIN, India — The mayor of Cochin Mr. C.M. Dinesh Mani flagged off the river-keeper in Eloor today at 10 a.m. The river-keeper, a Greenpeace active volunteer V.J.Jose, will use a small motorised boat to systematically patrol and monitor the...

BHOPAL, India — Over one hundred activists of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) signposted three solar evaporation ponds (SEP) on the outskirts of the UCIL factory in Bhopal today, and declared them ‘Poisoned and awaiting...

ALANG, India — Greenpeace activists boarded a ship in Antwerp harbour yesterday to investigate whether it contains hazardous materials and to start preparing a preliminary public inventory of findings. The environmental organisation and an...

MUMBAI, India — The Government of India should include American multinational Dow Chemical in the ongoing criminal case on the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal in December 1984, demanded Greenpeace, other NGOs from the National...

TRIVANDRUM, India — Community Groups like Deepthi Kala Samskarika Samithi (DKSS) and environmental organizations - Greenpeace, Thanal, Nature Care Organisation (NCO), Kerala Environment and Development Society (KEDS) jointly demanded ratification...

KODAIKANAL, India — The Tamilnadu Alliance Against Mercury, Toxics Link, United Citizens Council, Kodaikanal, PUCL and Greenpeace condemn Hindustan Lever Ltd's efforts to evade responsibility for the damage caused to the environment and health of...

KODAIKANAL, India — The cleanup took place on June 20, according to a protocol agreed upon by the community, and the community was also a monitor at the cleanup. However, the company refused the community access to the final weighing of the...

MUMBAI, India — In less than 20 years, pollution in Alang due to shipbreaking has reached levels prevalent in highly contaminated industrial areas in Europe with more than 200 years of industrial activity, according to a new Greenpeace report...

MUMBAI, India — Conceding to the demands of citizens groups and Greenpeace, Unilever has agreed to the permanent closure of its polluting mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, and to undertake a clean-up of 5.3 tons of mercury wastes dumped...

NEW DELHI, India — At the end of an "open dialogue" held today by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to discuss the introduction of Bt cotton, Greenpeace alleged that the dialogue turned out to be facade while it seemed clear that a move...

NEW DELHI, India — In a press conference held in the Defence Colony market in Delhi, Greenpeace announced that Genetically Engineered (GE) food have illegally entered the Indian market. Greenpeace provided evidence of two popular products -...

KODAIKANAL, India — Ex-workers from Hindustan Lever's (HLL) mercury thermometer factory went on a day-long hunger strike to expose the company's "unrepentant and insensitive attitude" in the ongoing controversy regarding the company's hazardous...

CHENNAI/KODAIKANAL, India — Hindustan Lever, which had earlier denied charges leveled by citizen groups in Kodaikanal against its thermometer factory of illegal mercury waste dumping, has admitted that the mercury-containing glass wastes, now...

MUMBAI/ CHENNAI, India — Palni Hills Conservation Council, United Citizens Council of Kodaikanal, Greenpeace and New Delhi-based Toxics Link have dismissed as an "insensitive PR exercise" Hindustan Lever's official response of temporarily...

NEW DELHI, India — Over hundred civil rights group

NEW DELHI, India — Genetically engineered Golden Rice containing provitamin A will not solve the problem of malnutrition in developing countries according to Greenpeace. The Genetic Engineering (GE) industry claims vitamin A rice could save...

NEW DELHI, India — From around the world Greenpeace today sent a message to the environment ministers of the G8 governments currently meeting in Trieste, Italy, calling for action now to protect the climate. Activists from 14 different countries...

GANDHI NAGAR, India — GANDHINAGAR The World Bank has written to Greenpeace admitting that CETPs "fail to address toxic effluents." This admission comes less than two weeks after Greenpeace and community groups from South Gujarat took action...