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SUCCESS! Shell stops Arctic oil drilling for this year

Blog entry by Ben Ayliffe | September 17, 2012

You did it. For over six months, huge numbers of us have been pressuring Shell to stay out of the Arctic. Well this morning, company bosses announced they were scrapping their oil drilling programme for this year. It's a huge...

Water Patrol Expedition Day 2

Image gallery | September 14, 2012

Right-to-know Water Patrol Expedition launch

Blog entry by Jenny Tuazon | September 14, 2012

For the first time, Water Patrol runs an expedition starting from a heavily polluted river in Metro Manila, the Marikina River. This expedition travels 85 kilometers for 3 weeks this September aiming to examine and document sources...

Pollution should not be a secret

Blog entry by Chuck Baclagon | September 13, 2012 1 comment

Garbage that’s floating on our rivers and lakes is almost common sight in Metro Manila, and it's also fair to say that a lot of effort is presently being done by the government, the business sector and the many environmental and...

How do you solve a problem like COALmendras?

Blog entry by Anna Abad | September 7, 2012

The fight against coal has always been a battle between David and Goliath.  Stories from host communities  themselves can attest to the fact that power, authority and deception are the tactics used to coerce people into “accepting”...

NO to dirty and polluting coal

Blog entry by Gloria Ramos, guest blogger | September 3, 2012

Crossposted from Mindfully Greenie The first National Anti-Coal Summit brought together citizens who have led campaigns against or are threatened by the possible installation of polluting coal power plants in their localities.

24 children used as guinea pigs in genetically engineered "Golden Rice" trial

Blog entry by Monica Tan, Greenpeace East Asia | August 31, 2012

The above picture taken from our 2004 'Rice is Life' tour where we captured images from traditional, chemical-free paddy fields. How would you feel if I told you that a group of scientists had come to the United States, and fed ...

Cold hands, determined hearts

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | August 30, 2012

When I spoke to my friends and family this weekend I was unanimously scolded. After Friday’s 15-hour occupation of Gazprom’s  Prirazlomnaya  oil platform in the Pechora Sea, they all said “you’re getting too old for this!” With blue...

The deadly cost of coal

Blog entry by Dean de la Paz, guest blogger | August 29, 2012

Crossposted from  Philippine Online Chronicles Going green is in vogue and as imagery goes, “fashionably green” helps clean up the corporate black faces and darker hearts of even the most pollutive enterprises. To be specific,...

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