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LONDON/BOMBAY, United Kingdom — True to their migratory nature, endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles showed up in the UK today, calling on the TATAs at their recently acquired Corus Steel offices in London, urging them to drop their plans to...

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today demonstrated several innovative uses for the light bulb at the Philips Innovation Centre in Bangalore. Interacting with employees and management at the Innovation Centre, Greenpeace activists sent out the...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today exposed the energy wastage due to leakage from a random selection of prominent buildings across the national and financial capital in a “technovative” manner. Thermographic (temperature sensitive) images taken...

MUMBAI, India — Under threat of displacement by Tata's mega port at Dhamra in Orissa, four 'Olive Ridley Sea Turtles' sought refuge in the swimming pool of the Taj Land's End Hotel (a Tata concern) at Bandra. Tongue in cheek, the turtles opened a...

MUMBAI, India — Challenging TATAs insurance slogan “Take a new look at life” four turtles appeared at the Mumbai Office of TATA AIG Life Insurance, asking for insurance cover to protect them from Tata’s proposed port at Dhamra in Orissa. The...

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today welcomed the launch of RoHS-compliant desktops and laptops by Wipro Infotech. By doing this, Wipro, as a responsible corporate leader, has taken the first step forward in addressing the issue of e-waste, even...

MUMBAI, India — A Greenpeace-commissioned study has unequivocally established that TATA Steel’s port at Dhamra in Orissa would be an ecological blunder, causing irreversible destruction. The North Orissa University team, led by Dr. S.K. Dutta (1)...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace activists, alongwith an Orca Whale, paid the Japanese Embassy in Delhi a surprise visit today asking the island nation to respect the ban on whaling and stop the annual massacre of whales under the guise of...

'CUT CO2' lit up the face of the Le Meridien–New Delhi, in the heart of India's capital, calling for urgent action to fight climate change - the biggest environmental threat facing the world today. This was part of Greenpeace’ campaign, supported...

BANGALORE, India — A family of displaced Penguins from the Antarctica were today spotted on the streets of Bangalore as they joined thousands of others in the Midnight Marathon holding placards with the message "Stop Climate Change, Ban the Bulb"...

NEW DELHI, India — The Greenpeace Climate Patrol team today erected a Climate Hazard Information signpost in front of the Philips Lighting head quarters at Gurgaon. The signpost is on the lines of the Hazardous Waste signs that every production...

NEW DELHI, India — While the city geared up to celebrate the hundred and fifty years of the Indian war of independence, students of K R Mangalam World School, New Delhi took a step to usher in a world free from climate change. Over fifty students...

1) According to the USEPA replacing an incandescent bulb with a CFL will reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment from 13.6 mg to 8.3 mg over the lifetime of the CFL 2) The way forward is a "top-runner" legislation to improve...

NEW DELHI, India — A family of penguins, climate refugees from Antarctica was spotted at India Gate this morning! Braving the heat in the capital, the penguins protested against global warming and the melting of polar ice caps and called on...

MUMBAI, India — Greenpeace today released ‘The Greenpeace Guide to Climate Safe Lighting’ [1], a ranking guide for the Indian lighting industry, naming and shaming those manufacturers whose incandescent bulbs are responsible for the highest...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today launched a petition signing drive aimed at collecting one million signatures to call on the Union Government to implement a ban on inefficient light bulbs in the country by the year 2010. Attended by several...

KOLKATA, India — Greenpeace activists today unfurled a banner with the message Stop Climate Change- Philips Ban the Bulb! at the Annual General Meeting of Philips asking the company to phase out the manufacture and sale of the incandescent light...