COCHIN, India — ‘Stop Abuse of the Periyar’ was one of the elections demands raised by Greenpeace in Kerala in an intensive pre-elections campaign in April 2004. A key event during this campaign was the hosting of ‘Meet the Candidate’ an occasion...

CANADA, Canada — In a 5-4 decision, the Canadian Supreme Court has held that Mr. Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer whose crop was contaminated by Monsanto’s GE canola fields near his own farm, had violated Monsanto's patent by planting seed from...

HOLLYWOOD, United States — Anybody who has watched an X-wing fighter explode in a luminous fireball in the vacuum of space knows that Hollywood is fast and loose with science. But if Hollywood has an iconic specialty, it's aiming the spotlight.

MIAMI, FLORIDA, United States — Judge throws out Bush administration case against environmental group

BANGALORE, India — 6 May, 2004, Bangalore: Criticizing the sweeping recommendations of the ‘Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture’, Greenpeace has stated that the report assumes that genetically engineered crops are the way...

BANGALORE, India — Criticizing the sweeping recommendations of the ‘Task Force on Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture’, Greenpeace has stated that the report assumes that genetically engineered crops are the way forward for Indian...

DHARAMSALA, India — On 19th April 2004, a group of seventeen people from Greenpeace Germany, Switzerland and India embarked on a journey to Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, to participate in the first ‘Solar Generation’ project in India. Together...

SAN FRANSISCO, United States — Long-term campaigners for justice and survivors of the world's worst chemical disaster, Rashida and Champa have won the Goldman award for leading a trade union struggle for the livelihood rights of more than 80...

BHOPAL, India — The Bhopal delegation visited the United Nations to urge the organisation to end its "20-year long discriminatory stand" by intervening in Bhopal's continuing humanitarian disaster. "UN agencies such as WHO, ILO and UNICEF remain...

CHENNAI, India — Greenpeace released findings of Arrested Development, a national level study that reveals serious mental development disorders amongst children constantly exposed to pesticides. The mental development disorders range from...

BHOPAL, India — "When you can smell your own fear you are on the right track." This is the slogan that Diane Wilson, a famed "shrimp-boat-captain-turned-activist and merciless scourge of Dow" lives by. But the only fear we smell in this case is...

AMRITSAR, India — Amritsar, March 17 2004: Greenpeace, along with its Punjab project partner Kheti Virasat, today released shocking findings from Punjab of its national level health study, Arrested Development, at a seminar on Environmental...

BHOPAL, India — On a scorchingly hot day in March, a number of us have gathered at Atal Ayub Nagar, a basti in the shadow of the Carbide factory. We plan to walk through 12 bastis to hear first hand, the residents' woes, all of them victims of...

KODAIKANAL, India — Kodaikanal, March 8, 2004: On the 3rd anniversary of the closure of Hindustan Lever Limited’s (HLL’s) thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, at a public rally held in Kodaikanal on March 7, 2004, the coalition of ex-workers, Palni...