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Alaska Pollock Fishery on the Verge of Collapse

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The world’s largest food fishery is on the verge of collapse. Pollock, used to make McDonald’s fish sandwiches, frozen fish sticks, fish and chips, and imitation crabmeat, have had a population decrease of 50 percent since last year.

Congo logging review could lead to more forest desctruction

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Illegal logging is rapidly destroying the Earth's stores of natural resources at a time when runaway climate change threatens life on every continent. However, a review of the legality of 156 logging contracts in Democratic Republic of Congo will put its ancient forests in peril, rather than protect them.

New Greenpeace Earth balloon takes flight

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Over the years hot air balloons have played a lead role in several memorable Greenpeace actions around the globe, and now Greenpeace USA has a balloon to call our very own. We’re happy to announce that our brand new Earth balloon has passed its FAA flight test this morning and later made its inaugural flight outside Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Greenpeace and Ben & Jerry's bring climate-friendly refrigeration to the US

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace and Ben & Jerry's today announced that the ice-cream maker is the first US company to use F-gas free cooling technology in the United States. The company's Cleaner Greener Freezer uses Hydrocarbon, a natural refrigerant that is much better for the environment than F-gases.

Greenpeace activists occupy world headquarters of logging giant AbitibiBowater

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace activists entered the headquarters of AbitibiBowater on the morning of September 24th and chained themselves to the building's entrance to protest the destruction of the Boreal Forest by the logging giant.

As Arctic Sea Ice Reaches 2008 Low, Street Art Project Highlights Shared Fate of Polar Bears, Humanity

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace has launched a street art campaign aimed at highlighting the plight of the Arctic polar bear, which may very well become homeless if we don’t take serious action to combat global warming. Our intent with this project is to communicate how global warming is affecting the polar bear and to highlight the very real connection between the polar bear’s fate and our own.

New evidence of Kimberly-Clark’s shocking mismanagement of forest resources

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Shocking new photos released today reveal the existence of a massive stockpile of old-growth logs that are destined to become disposable products like Kleenex tissue and Cottonelle toilet paper for tissue giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C). The logs originate from the Ogoki Forest, the single most ecologically valuable area left in Ontario’s southern Boreal Forest and the site of growing controversy.

Nokia tops latest Greener Electronics Guide

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Company scores plummeted in the previous edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, when new criteria on climate change were introduced. However, leading brands like Nokia and Samsung are now making significant progress in greening their electronics products, with improved environmental policies responding not only to these new energy criteria, but also to the more stringent chemical and e-waste criteria.

Negotiations between Greenpeace and AbitibiBowater come to an end

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace talks with logging giant AbitibiBowater have broken down, as the company is unwilling to work at protecting intact forest areas and continues to log in many critical forest areas, including caribou habitat.

Senator Collins Defends the Chemical Industry

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On August 19th Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) responded to a coalition of groups in Maine and Greenpeace along with nearly 10,000 petition cards from across the U.S. urging her take leadership on chemical security legislation.

A week of bad news about the global climate crisis points up need for real solutions

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Last week brought us a series of disturbing news stories that point up the severity of the climate crisis we’re facing: nine polar bears were spotted swimming in open waters; one of Greenland's largest glaciers cracked, and further disintegration is feared by experts; and Fay flooded Florida with more than two feet of rain.

WallE + Kleenex = IronE

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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In what must surely be the absolute height of tragic irony, Kimberly-Clark is using a movie about conservation to sell Kleenex, a disposable paper product containing absolutely no recycled content.

Greenpeace activists keep the pressure on Kimberly-Clark

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Several Greenpeace activists locked down the main entrance to Kimberly-Clark’s global administrative headquarters in Knoxville, TN today as part of their ongoing effort to pressure the company into adopting business practices that protect rather than devastate North America’s remaining Boreal forests. While the lockdown was under way, another group of activists deployed a 30 ft. by 20 ft. banner from the facility’s parking garage that read: “Kleenex: Wiping away ancient forests.”

Kimberly-Clark can't hide environmental devastation

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Several Greenpeace activists visited the Kimberly-Clark (KC) offices in Roswell, Georgia today to show the company’s officials that they can’t hide from the devastation they have wrought on the North American Boreal Forest.

Green Olympics? Lessons from Beijing

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

China made big promises to clean up Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games. How well did they do? Greenpeace’s new Olympic report has the answers.

High tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution in Ghana

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals.

Offshore Drilling – It’s NOT the Answer to High Gas Prices at the Pump

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Record high gas prices have been making the news headlines for the past few months. Each week gas prices top the previous week, resulting in a new all-time high. Unless you are fortunate enough to live, work and play within walking distance from your home, you have been affected by these high gas prices like the rest of the nation.

While the public continues to be outraged about gas prices, some politicians (McCain, Bush, and Gingrich) are taking advantage of the dire situation by organizing a push to drill for oil along our coastlines and lift a 27-year moratorium.

Major Supermarkets Pull Unsustainable Seafood!

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:10:16 GMT

Two large supermarket chains – Stop & Shop and Giant Food - are going to stop selling shark, orange roughy and Chilean sea bass until their populations rebound. It's a huge victory for the oceans!

Congress Announces Ban on Toxic Chemicals

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In an exciting victory for children in the United States, President Bush signed into law national product-safety legislation that will ban certain chemicals from being used when producing toys. In an agreement announced on July 28th, Congress proposed legislation that will ban the use of six toxic chemicals, called phthalates, that are added to vinyl plastic to make it flexible. Thank you to the 8,000 Greenpeace activists who took action and wrote their members of Congress on this very issue. Your support helped over come heavy lobbying by ExxonMobil who manufactures phthalates.

Kleercut activists lock down Kimberly-Clark Kleenex mill in Fullerton, CA

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Greenpeace's Kleercut campaigners continued their efforts to stop Kimberly-Clark from destroying ancient forests to make its disposable products today by locking down a Kleenex factory in Fullerton, CA. Activists blockaded the entrance to the facility by chaining themselves to toilets with trees protruding from them, while a 40-foot banner that read "Stop flushing forests" was unfurled on Fullerton’s busy Orangethorpe Blvd.