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“ In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference” -- Rachel Carson Last year on World Water...
Bangkok, 18 February 2010 -- Twenty Greenpeace activists today unfurl a banner saying Information Disclosure: Pollution is not a secret at the Department of Industrial Works (DIW) building in Central Bangkok to urge the DIW to proactively tackle...
Samutprakan, Thailand, 22 February 2010 -- Greenpeace Water Patrol activists take sediment samples from Bangnangkreng canal along Chao Phraya River in Samutprakan Province, around 30 kilometers from Bangkok. Hundreds of factories located in this...
Please stayed tuned for a comprehensive collection of water samples at Bangnangkreng canal.
A middle-aged villager reflected on the cause of water pollution with his closing remarks that better quality of water seems to be hopeless, "I would love to see the quality of water gets better, but it would be extremely difficult, as the water...
Watch the video that helped convince the world's biggest sports brands to champion a toxic-free future. The world still needs more champions!
Greenpeace activists stage a "die in" to decry insufficient protection of fresh water resources at the grounds of the government's environment office in Quezon City, Manila, Philippines. The action on Friday aimed to emphasize the need for better...
Artist García Uriburu and Greenpeace "paint" the waters of the Riachuelo in Buenos Aires green in a protest against toxics pollution.
29 May - Thailand. Volunteers in inflatable canoes start a 350km journey documenting the state of Chao Praya, the most iconic river of Thailand on the 'Toxic free Chao Phraya'tour. Read more .
Greenpeace activists and volunteers plastered cities around the world with posters covered with a special non-toxic ink that was washed away to reveal the fashion industry's dirty little secret. Consumers were then encouraged to take part in...
Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican filmstar and director, invites you to join our Detox campaign.
The Qiantang River in coastal Zhejiang Province is an area where more than one third of China's dyeing and printing takes place in an attempt to quench the insatiable global thirst for fast-fashion. Toxic water pollution is not a new story in...
You might not realise it but our planet is swarming with chemical monsters, from your washing machine to the North Pole. Toxic Little Monsters, like PFCs, are still being used by big companies to make all sorts of products, despite the fact...
Around the world a growing movement of people are using their creativity, design skills and purchasing power to demand fashion without pollution. For more information or to find out how you can join the campaign visit: www.greenpeace.org/detox
Children in Beijing and Shishi City, China react to pictures of toxic water pollution off the coast of South Eastern China. 2014-01-23
More than one hundred children create a human banner reading: "Detox Our Future", with the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior in the background, displaying the 'Detox symbol' between her masts. The activity took place to mark the launch of the...
Riverside benches on the banks of the Thames, start to disappear under the waterline as the river level rises. The Thames burst it's banks after several days of heavy rains, threatening local communities and their infrastructure, in the worst...
The Pasterze Glacier in the Austrian Alps, provides water that flows into the Danube basin, home to 83 million people. United Nations scientists have found that the European Alps lost half of the original ice volume since 1850.
Greenpeace Water Patrol activists today called attention to the shocking extent of industrial pollution in Chao Phraya River’s Samrong canal located in an industrial district in Samutprakan province, 40 kilometres south of Bangkok, and warned...
The activists, wearing protective suits, collected samples of sediments from the canal and floated a buoy with the sign “Danger: Toxic”. On the bridge crossing Samrong Canal, volunteers displayed signs listing the toxic chemical contents of the...
The Greenpeace Water Patrol has zero-ed in on Samrong canal as one example amongst the many factory-lined canals of Chao Phraya whose waters have become unsafe and unusable for the communities that live around it. There are more than 242...
“Greenpeace is putting the spotlight on Samrong canal to show the dismal failure of current pollution control measures in protecting Thailand’s water resources. The level of heavy metals contained in the sediments confirms that these chemicals...
Last month, Greenpeace revealed in a study that water samples collected from Samrong canal contained nonyl phenols, 2-Naphthalenamine and tri-iso-butyl phosphate (TiBP), the toxic chemicals used in the textile industry. The study also revealed...
Greenpeace is demanding that the government stem this toxic overload by instituting a chemical disclosure system that is accessible to the public, and by bringing an end to the discharge of harmful effluents by factories into the environment...
Greenpeace show their opposition to the pollution caused by the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Vapi Industrial Estate, Golden Corridor, Gujarat, India.
01 April 2009 - Henan Province, China. Zhang Qiaoliang and his wife Su Yunxia share a happy moment during Su Yunxia’s pregnancy. Zhang Qiaoliang, 25 years old, died of throat cancer just before the birth of his child, shortly after this photo was...
Cloth at Guotai Dyeing Factory (called the Well Dying Factory Limited in English).
A high-end housing development called Vanke Golden Banks is visible on the other side of the Fenghua, which is hardly ever "golden" these days. Often it is red or black, depending on the waste water.
A Greenpeace campaigner takes a sample of yellow-coloured waste water from the discharge pipe at the Youngor Textiles Factory.
This boy is working with his parents at a small jeans workshop in Dadun Village in Xintang. He earns 0.15 yuan for snipping loose thread ends off one pair of jeans; in one day he can do about 200 pairs.
The film tells the story of 13 year old Suwimon Daengniam and 59 year old Wali Pejarean who both live along the Samrong Canal, one of the major canals that flows in to the Chao Phraya River in Thailand. Through their stories we begin to...
Watch the campaign background video to see how we follow the toxic trail: from the pollution at the pipe, to factories that make our clothes, to the international clothing brands that have the power to change the system and Detox our future
Flashmobs in 29 cities, all at once! More than 600 people danced and stripped outside Adidas and Nike stores in 29 cities in 10 countries for Greenpeace's Detox Campaign to challenge the sportswear leaders to eliminate hazardous chemical releases...
A firefighter talks about how weather is changing in California as a result of climate change. Drier landscapes and more dry lightning mean more fires.
Clean freshwater is one of our most precious and most threatened natural resources. In China, for example, as much as 70% of rivers, lakes and reservoirs are polluted. Many chemicals released from textile factories threaten human health and the...
10 August 2010 - Thailand. Greenpeace Water Patrol activists, wearing protective suits, collect samples of sediments from Samrong canal, which is located in an industrial district in Samutprakan province, 40 kilometres south of Bangkok. The...
Melting permafrost affects the indigenous nomadic Nenets people and adds to climate change as decomposion of defrosting soil releases masses of methane and carbon dioxide.
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