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Looking to the African Voices Tour

Blog entry by Björn | March 31, 2011

It was the second wave which finally capsized the small boat, throwing the fishermen onto the beach. Chaos followed, I heard screams, and saw women watching the men as they tried to get the ten-meter long wooden boat back under control...

Greenpeace Expands Radiation Team to Investigate Fukushima Fallout

Feature story | April 4, 2011 at 10:24

Today we resume our radiation monitoring outside the evacuation zone surrounding the stricken Fukushima nuclear complex. Adding a second field team of radiation experts, our investigation into radiation health threats to the local population will...

Road to Durban: Starting out in Bangkok

Blog entry by Melita Steele | April 7, 2011

In Cancun last year, COP 16 ended in high drama – with some hailing the meeting as a complete success because progress was made in key areas, and some calling the meeting an utter failure after Bolivia’s objections were basically...

Greenpeace Radiation Monitoring Teams Call for Further Evacuation

Feature story | April 11, 2011 at 11:05

Following extended monitoring of the area outside the exclusion zone, Greenpeace is calling for the greater Fukushima area to be given official protective status and for the evacuation of pregnant women and children from high risk areas in...

Learn From Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - Greenpeace Reminds SA Government

Feature story | April 11, 2011 at 12:07

Greenpeace repeats its call for SA government to abandon plans to build new nuclear stations in the face of deadly catastrophes such as the Chernobyl disaster that’s still affecting Ukrainians 25 years later.

Help Us Make a World Record and Get Facebook Off Coal

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | April 12, 2011

As our deadline for getting Facebook off coal and onto renewables approaches (Earth Day, April 22nd) we are planning a massive push for tomorrow. So massive, in fact, that we hope to make a Guinnes World Record. To make it work,...

Thousands Call on Facebook to Drop Coal

Feature story | April 13, 2011 at 11:34

Tens of thousands of Facebook users around the world are calling for a green Facebook, hopefully setting a new World Record in the process.

Greenpeace Supporters Set World Record for Most Facebook Comments

Blog entry by Eoin and Mike | April 14, 2011

With your incredible support, we just set a world record for the most comments on a single Facebook post in one day! Our supporters posted no less than 80,000 comments in at least eleven languages on our Facebook Unfriend Coal page ...

Bangkok comes to a close. Next step: Bonn in June

Blog entry by Melita Steele | April 15, 2011

The first week-long session of the climate negotiations has come to a close. So, what ended up on the agenda for the week? Short answer: lots and lots of talking. It was a pretty telling week, with the geo-politics of the negotiations...

Africa tells Facebook to 'unfriend' Coal

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | April 18, 2011

One of the big online campaigns we've been running is to get Facebook off coal and onto renewable energy . As one of the biggest players in the online space, Facebook is uniquely positioned to determine where its electricity comes...

The Milk of Chernobyl

Blog entry by Aslihan Tumer | April 18, 2011

As a child, I really didn't like milk. No matter how much my mother tried to add sugar or chocolate to it, I didn't want any. I still don’t like it much — something I can't help thinking about as I come to a remote village in the...

Meet Annya

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | April 18, 2011

This is Annya in her room. When she was just four years old, little Annya Pesenko, trying to be a good girl, sitting up straight and eating her food nicely, would sometimes just pass out and fall flat onto the table. She could not...

Fracking Update

Feature story | April 18, 2011 at 20:52

The issue of Shell, and 2 other energy companies, wanting to drill for Shale gas in the Karoo is a hot topic — and rightly so. The good news is many groups and communities have been very vocal, but there's more we can do.

Update From the Field Radiation Team

Blog entry by Rianne Teule | April 19, 2011

It’s nearly three weeks since we started the second part of the radiation monitoring work in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture. It was an extremely intensive and exhaustive experience, but also one of the most motivating operations I've...

Sweden Joins Africa in Telling Facebook to Ditch Coal

Blog entry by Mike Baillie | May 3, 2011

Last month volunteers from accross Africa took part in an online/offline activity to get Facebook off coal. If you missed it, check it out here . Following in Africa's footsteps, volunteers from Sweeden have put together an awesome...

African Voices Tour Diary, Part 2

Blog entry by Prudence Wanko and Michael Baillie | May 4, 2011

This is part two of the Afican Voices tour through Europe, to catch-up on part one, click here . What is the African Voices Tour? As European waters have become increasingly overfished, massive European fishing vessels have...

Activists Occupy Oil Rig Bound for Arctic Drilling

Feature story | May 9, 2011 at 17:36

Last month activists took bold action to stop the oil rig Leiv Eiriksson from drilling in the Arctic waters. But sadly the Greenland government has now approved Cairn Energy’s application to drill four offshore oil wells this year.

Fantastic Supporter Numbers

Blog entry by Mike Baillie | May 11, 2011

When we started fundraising in South Africa, we hoped to have 5 800 supporters onboard by the end of 2010. Thanks to you, we easily passed that target, ending ended up with over 6,000! We think it's quite an achievement, and something...

New Wikileaks Revelations Shed Light on Arctic Oil ‘Carve-Up’

Feature story | May 13, 2011 at 9:44

New revelations by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks show how the scramble for resources in the Arctic is sparking military tension in the region – with NATO sources worried about the potential for armed conflict between the alliance and Russia.

TEPCO Admits Full Meltdown

Feature story | May 16, 2011 at 14:55

Greenpeace today criticised TEPCO and the Japanese government for continuing to downplay the seriousness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. Yesterday TEPCO admitted that a partial meltdown of the reactor 1 core at the Fukushima Daiichi...

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