KOLKATA, India — An awareness initiative undertaken by Greenpeace India to commemorate Earth Day has attracted the wrath of the Congress Party in Kolkata. With municipal elections looming, Congress officials are upset over hoardings that portray...
NEW DELHI, India — At 8 a.m. this morning, along with his morning tea, Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh was presented with a wake up call – literally. Eight volunteers presented Mr. Ramesh with a petition asking him to wake up...
BHUBANESWAR, India — Greenpeace today released an evaluation of the performance of the State Government on the turtle-fisheries issue in the 2008-2009 season (1). While the environmental watchdog acknowledged some progress made in terms of fiscal...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — We've got a message for the leaders of the richest nations in the world who are gathering in London for the G20 meeting to discuss the global economic crisis.
BHUBHANESHWAR, India — Greenpeace welcomed the news of return of mass-nesting of Olive Ridley Turtles at Nasi Islands off the Gahirmatha coast. Reports available from the Department of Forests – Wildlife, Government of Orissa suggest that over...
BANGALORE, India — The dialogue between an alliance of environmental organisations and TATA Steel and other promoters of the Dhamra Port hit a dead end on 20 February 2009, after TATA refused to consider any suspension of dredging work at the...
NEW DELHI, India — How many light bulbs can 1 billion people change? About 400 million wasteful incandescent bulbs, in India’s case.Today, India has put in place a market mechanism that will phase out incandescent bulbs, making way for a cleaner...
Computer models of how our world will react to climate change have long predicted extreme and shifting weather patterns. More heavy rains in some areas, crippling drought in others. A new study, published this week in the journal Nature,...
Greenpeace activists who climbed the Clemenceau and chained themselves to its mast for over 30 hours, today disembarked from the aircraft carrier following the decision of the Egyptian EPA to deny the Clemenceau passage through the Suez Canal.
A look back over the last twelve months, starring jaguar suited activists, corporate skulduggery and heroics in unequal measures, politicians' finding/losing the plot and even an embassy for whales.
BANGALORE, India — The UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal is underway. The climate summit - the first since the Kyoto Protocol entered into force - opened on the 28th of November, kicking off two weeks of crucial negotiations on climate...
KAKINADA, India — The beautiful beach of Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) may soon turn into a scrapyard for old, toxic ships, threatening the lives of local people and the nearby Coringa nature reserve.
This report exposes the environmental damage and human rights violations against tribal and other forest dwellers in the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, that are under threat from the Indian government’s massive coal expansion programme.
Brikesh Singh, a Greenpeace activist, is living atop a tree in a forest-at-risk in Chandrapur, Maharashtra. He is protesting against the government's plan to mine coal in these forests. He'll be living here for a month. At end of his stay he will...
There have been changes brewing in Mahan, Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh. For the first time last month local people from five villages formed a committee of sorts to protect their land and the forests from coal mining companies like Mahan Coal...
The Bay of Bengal is a world treasure, supporting a variety of special and fragile habitats including pristine islands, mangrove forests and coral reefs and is home to such endangered creatures as sea turtles, dugongs, whale sharks and seahorses.
February 4, 2011, Bangalore: It has been shocking to see the immense pressure that has been developing from various quarters to reduce the NO GO forest zones to allow coal mining. MoEF has been succumbing to the pressure from the various...
New Delhi, March 16, 2011: Civil society groups (mines, minerals & People, Greenpeace, Wildlife Protection Society of India and Lawyers Initiative for Forests and Environment) today flayed the Group of Ministers on coal mining and other...
NEW DELHI, India — GEAC considered the approval of Bt Brinjal, India's first genetically modified food crop for public consumption.
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