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REVEALED: True cost of coal in China

Video | September 15, 2010

375 million tonnes of toxic coal ash created last year

Get the report: 'The True Cost of Coal: An investigation into Coal Ash in China'

China’s coal-fired power plants dump enough toxic coal ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes. Our latest report 'The True Cost of Coal: An Investigation into Coal Ash in China' reveals that coal ash has now become China’s largest single source of solid waste, due to the country’s heavy reliance on coal.

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Activists occupy Pig Iron shipment

Activists occupy Pig Iron shipment

Image | May 26, 2012 at 17:04

The day after President Dilma failed to fully veto controversial changes to Brazil's ‘forest code’, Greenpeace activists occupy a pile of pig iron and industrial cranes in the port of Sao Luis. While a second team of climbers occupy a cranes... Read more >

Banner Action at Yum! Headquarters

Banner Action at Yum! Headquarters

Image | May 24, 2012 at 14:51

Greenpeace activists place a banner on the front of a building at Yum! Brands international headquarters in Louisville. The banner exhibited a photo of an endangered Sumatran tiger and a message reading "KFC Stop Trashing My Home." Greenpeace... Read more >

Greenpeace Water Patrol, Tullahan River

Greenpeace Water Patrol, Tullahan River

Image | May 22, 2012 at 14:45

Greenpeace Water Patrol activists don protective suits to highlight water pollution in the Tullahan River The activists unfurl a banner that reads "We Have The Right To Know What's In Our Water!" The Tullahan River is one of the dirtiest rivers... Read more >

'Clipper Hope' Anchor Occupation in Brazil

Slideshow | May 22, 2012
Q'orianka Kilcher Occupies 'Clipper Hope' Anchor, Brazil.

Q'orianka Kilcher Occupies 'Clipper Hope' Anchor, Brazil.

Image | May 21, 2012 at 20:12

22 year old actress Q'orianka Kilcher (right), recently appeared alongside Cuba Gooding Jr in ABC's 'Firelight', occupies the anchor chain of the "Clipper Hope" cargo ship with 27 year old Brazilian activist Leonor Cristina Silva Souza. The... Read more >

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