"Despite admitting that a spill in the frozen north is inevitable, Shell operated with a response plan that relied on untested technology and equipment totally incapable of working effectively in some of the harshest conditions on Earth," Greenpeace International Arctic campaigner Ben Ayliffe said on Monday.
Tuna is in trouble. It's is one of the world’s favourite fish, and the staple protein of millions, but it is overfished globally.
They came from diverse academic backgrounds with a potpourri of ideas to successfully awaken, enlighten and jerk people into saving the environment.
The citizens of Istanbul now appear in control of Gezi Park, protecting one of the last and most treasured green spaces in Istanbul from conversion to a shopping mall. The protest, which began to save the park, became a rally for genuine democracy in Turkey.
The Coalition for a GM Free India along with various farmer unions, national political parties and diverse social and environmental movements have launched a nation-wide campaign demanding that the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill be withdrawn immediately.
After years of controversy surrounding the proposed palm oil plantation in Cameroon, the Cameroonian government has ordered Herakles Farms to suspend all logging at its main worksite at Talangaye, in the Nguti region of the country.
Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, Greenpeace East Asia said.
Earlier this week, Greenpeace Africa commemorated the 2nd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster with a call to the South African government to ensure transparency and accountability in the nuclear build process.
The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues for hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan, who are still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for its disasters, reports Greenpeace.
Various environmental NGOs have suspended their participation in Eskom’s NGO forum following reports that they contracted an intelligence company to spy on the organisations.
Limited Brands, owner of iconic underwear labels Victoria’s Secret and La Senza, has committed to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout its global supply chain and across all of its brands and products by 2020, in response to Greenpeace's global Detox campaign.
Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned massive global increase in emissions from coal, oil and gas projects.
A Shell oil drilling vessel has run aground off an Alaska island during a severe storm while under tow, officials said, as environmentalists again warned against Arctic oil drilling.
While politians at the UN Climate Talks agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, it was judged so full of loopholes as to have little or no effect on carbon emissions.
Over the weekend South Africans joined the global call for Levi's to Detox. Over 700 activists in over 80 cities around the world made their voices heard and demanded that Levi's eliminate all hazardous chemicals from its clothing and supply chains.
As ministers arrived at climate talks in the Qatari capital Doha, Greenpeace urged European countries not to take the side of Poland and Russia in a battle over whether to maintain the Kyoto Protocol’s biggest loophole and to make real progress on a deal to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Zara, the world’s largest clothing retailer, today announced a commitment to go toxic-free following nine days of intense public pressure. This win belongs to the fashion-lovers, activists, bloggers and denizens of social media. This is people power in action.
The monitoring of tuna fisheries must be strengthened and transfers of fish at sea banned to end the overfishing crisis in the Indian Ocean, Greenpeace International said earlier this month after it again found illegal fishing operations in the region.
As governments meet for climate talks in Doha, Greenpeace warned on Monday that they must wake up to the reality that climate change is already gripping the planet and take urgent action to avoid catastrophic global warming.
Power supplier Eskom is breaking more environmental laws than any other state corporation, according to the latest National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report.
