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Our addiction to fossil fuel is taking us on the road to nowhere

Blog entry by Kumi Naidoo | 10 February, 2015

On Saturday I joined a panel at the Munich Security Conference in Germany and talked about global security and energy security. You might be surprised to see Greenpeace at a security conference. The room was full of members of the...

Chernobyl field findings - 25 years later

Publication | 7 April, 2011 at 11:00

In the early morning of 26 April 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred in reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. The reactor’s explosion and subsequent burning went down in history as the world’s worst civilian...

17 nuclear headaches

Blog entry by Raquel Montón | 28 November, 2014 2 comments

"It was my duty to do this and I did it." These are the words of one of our Greenpeace activists when he was prosecuted last September for the peaceful protest at the nuclear power plant of Fessenheim in France. These thoughts are...

Chernobyl: distorted reality, and unanswered questions

Blog entry by Iris Cheng | 19 April, 2011 46 comments

We have just returned after completing an important mission in Ukraine – taking around 70 journalists from 18 countries with us to Chernobyl, nearly 25 years after the nuclear catastrophe . It was one of the largest media trips...

Fallout - 25 years after Chernobyl

Photo essay | 20 April, 2011 at 13:03

In remote villages of the Ukraine, contaminated food is part of daily life. There is no choice.

Showdown off the coast of Kenya

Blog entry by Jess | 1 October, 2008 5 comments

A few days ago, Somali pirates hijacked a Ukrainian ship off the coast of Kenya. It seemed to be pirate business at usual, until they realized that they were in command of a ship carrying about US $30 million worth of weapons. The...

Nuclear renaissance UK: the public subsidies have begun

Blog entry by Justin | 11 December, 2009 5 comments

When it comes to the people making promises on behalf of nuclear power, can any of them be taken at their word? When it comes to Ed Miliband, the UK’s environment minister, we’re not so sure. Speaking in Parliament last month,...

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