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Meet a Volunteer: Mateo Raises Awareness for the Arctic
Meet Mateo, a Greenpeace volunteer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He’s joining the fight to save the Arctic by screening documentaries and raising awareness in his community. Mateo and people like…
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Carting Away the Oceans 2015
Our Carting Away the Oceans report, released annually since 2008, identifies which major grocery chains are leaders in sustainable seafood and which are falling behind. The findings are telling. In…
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Case studies: The impacts of extracting and burning natural gas
Numerous studies have shown that the processes of extracting and burning natural gas, including fracking, have grave environmental impacts. Here are a few of them.
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Natural gas: Methane’s contributions to global warming
Natural gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal and other fossil fuels. This has led to widespread support for replacing other fossil fuels with methane, the main component of natural gas. There’s only one catch—methane is actually a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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The People Vs. Shell: Why I Took to the Water to Stop Arctic Drilling
June 11, 2015 It’s a beautiful, clear June day near my childhood home in Graham, Washington, and I am looking out across a grassy horse pasture towards the majestic Mt.…
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What It’s Like to Be a Kayaktivist in the Way of Shell’s Giant Rig
I was nervous getting into the water, knowing that I was literally confronting one of the most powerful multinational corporations in the world, Royal Dutch Shell, by paddling my small…
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Greenpeace Exposes Hazardous Chemicals in Popular Fashion
“We found that 20 of the world’s favorite brands are making and selling clothes containing hazardous chemicals which contribute to toxic water pollution where the clothes are made and washed”…
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Greenpeace Canned Tuna Ranking Finds Most Brands Fail Consumers on Ocean Safe Tuna
Washington, DC – In its first-ever US canned tuna ranking, Greenpeace found that the vast majority of the tuna sold in the American market fails to meet fundamental sustainability standards.…
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“Clean Coal” Pumps up “Green Oil”
Greenpeace USA just released “Carbon Capture Scam (CCS): How a False Climate Solution Bolsters Big Oil,” a report explaining why support for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) must stop. Cynics…
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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
In the face of the continuing disaster, even Japanese Prime Minister Abe appears to be revising his position of 2013 that the situation at Fukushima is under control. The INES 7…
