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You can't see them but your computer contains many toxic chemicals. Enlarge Image

What's hidden in your computer?

Computers are a complex mixture of several hundred components, many of which contain heavy metals and hazardous chemicals. These cause pollution and put workers at risk when the products are produced or thrown away. Discover what dangerous substances are hidden in many computers.

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You can't see them but your mobile phone contains many toxic chemicals. Enlarge Image

What's lurking in your mobile phone?

Mobile phones are a complex mixture of several hundred components, many of which contain heavy metals and hazardous chemicals. These cause pollution and put workers at risk when the products are produced or thrown away. Discover what dangerous substances are in many phones.

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A migrant child from Henan province holds up a piece of e-waste. It was once a Nokia computer screen, now dumped in China and dismantled by poor, unprotected, migrant workers. Enlarge Image

Pulling the plug on dirty electronics

Your new phone or new computer could, in a few years, end up dumped as toxic waste in Asia and scrapped by hand. Take a trip through the lifecycle of electronics products to discover the dirty secrets of electronics and solutions to the problem.

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Bycatch: 'Accidental' whale kills

This graph demonstrates the difference between the number of whales killed accidentally by a selection of national fishing fleets around the world, versus the number killed by two nations which have a commercial market for whale meat, Korea and Japan. Of the total number of whales entangled in nets reported worldwide to the International Whaling Commission in 2004, 87% of them were reported by Korea and Japan.

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Ancient forest threatened by industrial logging to make cheap copy paper and magazines. Enlarge Image

Ancient forests can't be xeroxed!

Until Greenpeace's cyberactivist community got them to change their policy, Xerox was buying paper from Finland's national logging company, which was clearcutting one of Europes last remaining ancient forests to make paper. A forest habitat that took millions of years to evolve, and which cannot simply be replanted, was being used to make a product that can come from recycled waste.

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Book Campaign Ecological Calculator

How many trees would you save every year if all the magazines, books, and newspapers you read were made with recycled post-consumer waste, instead of from the trees of ancient forests? Use this handy calculator to work it out!

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A truck carrying 140kgs of weapons-grade plutonium passes by the city of Nantes during the final stage of the U.S. transport of the dangerous cargo to Cadarache where mox rods are produced. The transport began in France after the arrival of UK-flagged commercial nuclear cargo ship, the Pacific Pintail, from Charleston, SC, USA. Before reaching its final destination it will have travelled more than a thousand kilometres across France, passing by numerous highly populated communities. Greenpeace believes the shipment is unnecessary and highly vulnerable to accidents or deliberate attack. Enlarge Image

Plutonium transports in France

What would you expect the security around a truck carrying enough nuclear fuel to make 40 hiroshima-sized bombs to look like? You probably wouldn't expect it to look like this video clip captured by Greenpeace volunteers.

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The original viewpoint taken at the HPS31 glacier fifty years ago. Enlarge Image

Retreat of glacier HPS31 in Chile.

The icefields in Patagonia are suffering from the fastest glacial retreat on Earth caused by global warming. This animation compares photographs taken from the same spot in 1955 compared to 2004.

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Top image: 1928, *Historic Image* Original photograph taken in 1928 of the Upsala Glacier. Bottom image: January 2004, Composite image of Upsala Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina. Enlarge Image

Upsala Glacial Retreat, Argentina

Across the planet glaciers are retreating as temperatures rise and weather patterns change. Our ship, the Arctic Sunrise and her crew, travelled to Patagonia in 2004 to highlight the impacts of climate change on the glaciers at the tip of South America. These glaciers are the fastest retreating glaciers on the globe as our demand for oil, gas and coal changes the climate of the Earth. This animation compares a 1929 postcard with a photo taken in 2004 from the same location.

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A baby orang-utan in Wanariset Samboja sanctuary, Indonesia. Enlarge Image

Tell me about the Indonesian forests

Indonesia has the largest list of endangered species of any country in the world. Illegal logging threatens the home of organg-utans and a vast range of biodiversity.

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In December of 2003, George Bush opened up vast tracts of Alaska's ancient forests for logging. Enlarge Image

Bush policy on America's ancient forests

This animation sums up the Bush administration's policy on ancient forests -- and it isn't 'healthy.'

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Oddo of the Rings

The Prime Minister of Iceland in this cautionary cartoon about the ghosts of whaling programmes past.

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Mouth of Lockhart/Gordon Creek, Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Enlarge Image

Interactive map of Canada's Boreal forest

Canada's boreal forest contains the largest intact ancient forests on Earth -- an ecosystem that took millions of years to evolve and which is home to grizzly bear, caribou, wolverines, and timber wolves. Why would anyone clearcut such forests to make toiler paper?

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Stop esso logo

Esso in France tried to silence freedom of expression on the web when they sued Greenpeace over the use of their logo illustrated here, as a parody and comment on their refusal to acknowledge global warming. The French courts agreed: we had every right to say it the way it is.

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Swim with the Whales!

Some fast facts about whales for kids in a fun cartoon style.

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Why should you care about the G8?

They command 65% of the world's wealth, yet represent only 14% of the world's people. They're the G8, and what you don't know about them can hurt you, your planet, and your future.

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Disney children's wear often contains toxic chemicals. Enlarge Image

Zero Toxics

Persistent pollutants, bio-accumulation -- this short animation explains why some substances simply shouldn't be out there in our sky, land or water.

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Greenpeace activists climb a 700-ft coal plant smokestack to denounce Bush's dirty power plan. The Hatfield's Ferry Power Station is a symbol and an example of the Bush administration's dirty energy policy that favors polluting fossil fuels over clean energy sources. Enlarge Image

The Bush Cheney Energy Plan: It won't lower prices. It will destroy our environment, pollute our air, waste American taxes.

The Bush-Cheney energy plan: ensuring vast amounts of pollution, no relief from global warming, but lots of money for big oil.

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