NEW DELHI, India — What have we really learnt from the world’s worst industrial disaster – the fatal gas leak from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal that has till date claimed more that 20000 lives? Corporations have learnt that they can get...

BANGALORE, India — The UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal is underway. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered into force - opened on the 28th of November, kicking off two weeks of crucial negotiations on climate...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A voyage of one year. Four oceans. One million Ocean defenders. That’s our response to the growing crisis our oceans face. We are launching our most ambitious ship expedition ever, to respond to the threats and...

BANGALORE, India — So, you thought genetic engineering is just something they carry out in a petri-dish under a microscope behind closed lab doors, right? Or it’s something that happens between humans and flies in shock-horror Hollywood flicks,...

BANGALORE, India — When politicians from around the world meet next week to talk about climate change, young people who will have to live with the consequences of their action or inaction will be nearby, ready to give them a nudge in the right...

BANGALORE, India — When large corporations are challenged to change their business practices, they usually respond grudgingly, with tentative, half-baked measures – especially if the change benefits the planet, not necessarily their bottom lines.

ZAMBALES, Philippines — One of our activists participating in a peaceful protest against a coal power plant outside Manila has been horrendously beaten by local plant security, who drew weapons and fired warning shots at people armed with nothing...

BRUSSELS, Belgium — A removal team has arrived at the European Commission to move two senior commissioners into new jobs with their best friends in dirty industry. Given the determined efforts of EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and...

It’s that time of the year again, the six ships of the whaling fleet are leaving Japan and heading back to the culling ground, the “Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary,” to carry out “scientific testing” on 1000 whales. The “scientific test” involves...

BANGALORE, India — A fortnight ago, we unveiled a 30' by 11' mural in Bangalore that labeled the CEOs of LG, Samsung, Electrolux, Whirlpool and BPL as 'Climate Criminals'. The mural showed them saying 'Everyone is talking about the climate: we...

It took the intervention of some home-grown celebrities to finally tip the balance in favour of protecting the forests of northern Argentina after a long fight by Greenpeace and the indigenous Wichi people.

BANGALORE, India — Activists and artists: an unusual combination. Or maybe not, when you consider the power of the arts to influence change. And when campaigners of Greenpeace India and artists gathered to unveil a 11' by 30' mural at the...

BANGALORE, India — Ask the leaders of world, if you have all the 'solutions' then why would more people in the world go hungry today than 20 years ago?

BANGALORE, India — Melting glaciers, floods, droughts, heat waves, extreme weather patterns, sea-level rise, pestilence, disease due to Global Warming, form the theme of the interactive art installation that's being coordinated at the Chitrakala...