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Ghost Gear: The Abandoned Fishing Nets Haunting Our Oceans
An estimated 640,000 tonnes of abandoned or lost fishing equipment, or ‘ghost gear’, enter the ocean every year, equivalent in weight to more than 50 thousand double-decker buses.
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5 problems with ‘sustainable’ palm oil
Palm oil is used in all sorts of everyday products from shampoo to chocolate, but it’s been disastrous for the world’s forests. Here are five not-so-fun facts about ‘certified sustainable’ palm oil, which is often anything but.
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Taking Norway’s government back to court for climate lawsuit
Oslo, Norway – Greenpeace Nordic and Nature and Youth in Norway are today again taking the Norwegian government to Oslo’s Court of Appeal for opening up new oil drilling in the Arctic.…
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Top consumer companies’ palm oil sustainability claims go up in flames
Bangkok, Thailand – Consumer goods companies Unilever, Mondelez, Nestle, and Procter & Gamble (P&G), and top palm oil traders including Wilmar are buying palm oil from producers linked to thousands…
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Greenpeace lodges Judicial Review of EPA process for dealing with OMV
Greenpeace has notified the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) of legal action over its dealings with oil giant @OMV’s application to drill a high risk, deep water well this summer.
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‘Cattenom Nine’: Activists face jail for sounding the alarm bell on nuclear safety
In the early hours of 12 October 2017, eight people sneaked inside the grounds of the Cattenom nuclear plant in northern France. Without much difficulty, they reached the foot of a spent fuel…
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The Wild West Atlantic
In the south-west Atlantic, along the Patagonian shelf, an area of international waters known as the Blue Hole is home to unique ecosystems and iconic species, such as the southern right whale and the elephant seal many of which have a fragile conservation status.
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“You’ve failed us” – student takes over Russel Norman’s speech
A high school student has taken over what was meant to be a speech delivered by Greenpeace head Russel Norman at an Environmental Protection Authority conference today. Norman had been…
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Austrian protests break out over OMV’s NZ drilling plans
Climate activists have staged an oil spill with giant whale sculptures outside the Vienna headquarters of Austrian oil giant OMV, in protest of its plans to drill for oil in…
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Gaia: everything on Earth is connected
In Greek mythology only Chaos precedes Gaia. Gaia was the Greek goddess of Earth, mother of all life.
