press releases
Last edited 27 February 2006 at 9:00am
An enormous 'KAPOW!' was projected onto Sizewell nuclear site earlier this morning by Greenpeace volunteers - to highlight the risk of a terrorist attack on Britain's nuclear power stations.
Last edited 23 February 2006 at 9:00am
The threat of so-called 'suicide seeds' being used in commercial agriculture has become greater following a change of policy by Monsanto, the world's largest GM seed and chemicals company.
Last edited 13 February 2006 at 9:00am
London/Vancouver, February 7th, 2006 - Greenpeace applauded today's news that a third of Canada's unique Great Bear Rainforest is to be saved from the chainsaws. Following a decade of campaigning by Greenpeace, other leading environmental groups [1] and indigenous First Nations, the British Columbian Government has pledged to fully protect two million hectares of the ancient forest [2] and to dramatically improve bad logging practices in the rest of the forest.
Last edited 1 February 2006 at 9:00am
Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency today, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's biggest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal.
Over 80% of the experts, commissioned to assess the environmental impact of building the 4,200 km pipeline, rejected the proposal because of its proximity to one of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Lake Baikal - which has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.
Last edited 1 February 2006 at 9:00am
Greenpeace activists protested at the headquarters of a Russian government agency today, accusing it of trying to silence its own environmental experts who are opposed to plans for the world's biggest oil pipeline, scheduled to be built through a World Heritage Site around Lake Baikal.
Over 80 per cent of the experts, commissioned to assess the environmental impact of building the 4,200 km pipeline, rejected the proposal because of its proximity to one of the world's most fragile ecosystems, Lake Baikal, which has been a World Heritage Site since 1996.
Last edited 31 January 2006 at 9:00am
Commenting on the collision between a chemical tanker and a bulk carrier in the English Channel, Dr Paul Johnston of the Greenpeace research laboratory in Exeter, said:
"Depending on how much phosphoric acid is released, this chemical will hopefully be neutralised quickly, although some local environmental problems could result. An additional and longer term concern is the possible leakage of fuel and lubricating oils. We need to know how much oil was this ship carrying?"
Last edited 27 January 2006 at 9:00am
Leading environmental groups with 8 million supporters come together to call for stronger action from Government to halt massive increase in whaling
The Whale Group of Wildlife and Countryside Link, an alliance of the UK's leading environmental organisations, is calling on Tony Blair to urgently step up UK diplomatic pressure to halt Japan's attempts to overwhelm an international conservation treaty and facilitate the resumption of commercial whaling for the first time in two decades.
Last edited 26 January 2006 at 9:00am
Greenpeace today accused the Government of steam-rollering the country into adopting a new generation of nuclear weapons after planning consent was given to a controversial new defence project.
Greenpeace believes the Orion laser, planned for the Atomic Weapons Establishment in Aldermaston, and other elements of the current £1 billion upgrade of Aldermaston's research and development facilities will be used to develop a new nuclear weapon - very possibly a new generation smaller, so-called 'battlefield' nuclear weapons that would be more likely to be used.
Last edited 25 January 2006 at 9:00am
NASA researchers have calculated that 2005 was the hottest year on record.
Last year produced the highest annual average surface temperature worldwide since instrument recordings began in the late 1800s, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The previous hottest year was 1998.
Last edited 23 January 2006 at 9:00am
Reacting to this morning's launch of a new energy review, Greenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale said:
"It's now clear that Ministers are asking the wrong questions. Instead of asking how Britain can make its energy system more efficient, this review is only looking at what kind of fuel we use to generate electricity.
"The UK has an electricity grid designed seventy years ago that wastes most of the fuel we put into it. What we need is an energy revolution, a grid that lets renewable schemes and energy efficiency measures meet their full potential.
