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Nuclear nightmares

Feature story | April 27, 2006 at 14:39

Elena was playing outside 20 years ago. Not far away the Chernobyl reactor was melting down. Since then both her and her sister have had brain cancer. Facts and figures, scientists and politicians, can't tell you the terrible consquences of...

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

Feature story | April 20, 2006 at 16:18

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancers cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

Bob Hunter

Feature story | May 3, 2005 at 17:27

ONTARIO, Canada — Perhaps more than anyone else, Bob Hunter invented Greenpeace. His death today, of cancer, marks the passing of a true original, one of the heroes of the environmental movement.

Welcome to our new Website.

Feature story | August 28, 2004 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — On the 4th of August 2004, Greenpeace India takes a small step towards realizing its global potential by joining the ‘Greenpeace Planet’, an ambitious world wide web project that is designed to inspire our visitors to join us...

Of mice and whales

Feature story | June 1, 2004 at 5:30

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — They go by aliases and real names: Echo. Bluplanet. Ann Novek. Tig3933.Chris99. They stop nuclear reprocessing plants, save forests and whales, hound corporations and hold the feet of bureaucrats to the fire. Who ARE...

No More Hiroshimas

Feature story | August 3, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Anniversaries come and go. They mean very little to most of us. Most of the time they evoke nothing more than exasperation at the sight of a few people standing at a busy traffic island desperately trying to keep a few candles...

Radiation

Page | October 5, 2006 at 19:57

Radiation is the term used to describe energy in the form of light or particles. Whereas most atoms in nature are stable and remain unchanged in composition and energy, certain natural or artificially created atoms are unstable, which means they...

Ending the nuclear weapons age

Feature story | February 15, 2013 at 16:30

The exact number of nuclear weapons situated across the world is shrouded in mystery, but whatever the number, North Korea's underground test this week is a grim reminder of the devastation and destruction these weapons could unleash.

Mumbai voices against nuclear liability bill

Press release | July 8, 2010 at 20:48

MUMBAI, India — Consultation on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 held today at the University of Mumbai charged that the bill acts as a facilitator of corporate immunity rather than a protector of peoples fundamental rights.

US geologist speaks of earthquake risk in Jaitapur

Press release | January 12, 2012 at 17:12

Mumbai, January 12, 2012: According to a paper co-authored by Professor Dr. Roger Bilham of University of Colarado and Professor Dr. Vinod Gaur of Indian Institute of Astrophysics, an earthquake, the magnitude of 6 plus on the Richter scale, can...

E-mail BNP Paribas

Action | October 20, 2010 at 19:19

You don't have to be a customer to e-mail BNP Paribas. Ask them not to fund the dangerous, out-of-date Angra 3 nuclear reactor in Brazil:

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E-mail BNP Paribas about their radioactive investments today!

HSBC and BNP Paribas - Nuclear is a bad investment

Action | May 10, 2011 at 16:00

Write to international banks, BNP Paribas and HSBC, and demand they withdraw their funding from the Jaitpaur nuclear project. The Jaitapur nuclear power plant is planned to be the biggest in the world - and is being built in an earthquake zone!

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Disruptive diplomacy, not shock and awe

Action | April 13, 2012 at 14:37

Open letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read it and sign it here.

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Exhibition - The Human Cost of Nuclear Accidents

Page | April 21, 2011 at 13:31

One of the most frightening things about nuclear accidents is that the contamination itself is invisible.

Earthquake, fire and nuclear leak in Japan

Feature story | July 23, 2007 at 15:10

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan — A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the world's largest nuclear plant on Monday, causing a transformer fire. Since then, revelations have been coming out about spills and leaks at the plant.

Marking 3 years of TEPCO’s Fukushima disaster, leading anti-nuclear activists and...

Press release | March 10, 2014 at 17:32

New Delhi, 10th March 2014: Leading antinuclear activists and Greenpeace raised their pitch against the government's move to bypass supplier liability provisions in their full spirit, in current negotiations with Russians on Kudankulam 3&4.

Is the Govt approval to KNPP 3&4 based on lies?

Press release | April 8, 2014 at 20:31

New Delhi, April 8, 2014: According to an RTI response from General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), Kudankulam reactors will not be insured by them. The RTI request was filed by Greenpeace on the 12th of March and GIC responded to the...

With a decline in global markets, Abbott looks to India for uranium sale

Press release | September 5, 2014 at 18:38

New Delhi/Canberra, September 4, 2014: Greenpeace today criticized the civil nuclear agreement between India and Australia. The environmental group accused Abbott of desperately trying to revive a declining industry.

Villagers from power-starved Vidharbha meet political leaders in Delhi; Demand...

Feature story | April 14, 2009 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Two weeks after calling on political parties to provide reliable energy to the power starved region of Jalka (Yavatmal district, Maharashtra), the representatives from Kalavati’s village made a trip to Delhi to raise issue of...

“Nuclear Energy = Dangerous Energy”

Feature story | April 9, 2007 at 5:30

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Greenpeace activists today picketed the high-profile’ IndoNuclear 2007’ conference In Jakarta, with banners proclaiming : “Nuclear Energy = Dangerous Energy” to protest against the false and dangerous solutions being...

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