New Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty

An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful contacts to the battle against global warming.

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Greenpeace: China power companies hurting climate

China's three largest energy suppliers emitted more greenhouse gases than all of Britain last year, environmental watchdog Greenpeace China said in a report issued Tuesday.

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Greenpeace spoofs Int'l Herald Trib; IHT objects

Greenpeace published a spoof edition of the International Herald Tribune on Thursday to highlight environmental issues and draw attention to the Copenhagen climate change conference in December.

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Greenpeace buys land to foil London runway plans

An environmental coalition led by Greenpeace has thrown a monkey wrench into expansion plans for London's chronically congested Heathrow Airport.

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Greenpeace occupies E.ON site in Rotterdam

Around 100 Greenpeace activists have occupied a construction site in Rotterdam's harbor to protest against a coal-fired power plant German energy giant E.ON AG is building there.

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Greenpeace Criticizes Microsoft, Nintendo

Microsoft and Nintendo are taking too long to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles, and TV producers Philips and Sharp have poor policies on taking back and recycling outdated products, Greenpeace said Tuesday in its latest environmental ranking of leading electronics companies.

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Amazon Greenpeace Standoff Ends

Eight Greenpeace members prevented from leaving an Amazon town for more than 24 hours by loggers and angry residents were escorted away peacefully Wednesday by authorities.

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Greenpeace to Monitor Endangered Whales

Greenpeace announced a satellite-based tracking system to monitor endangered South Pacific humpback whales Wednesday, saying it is not necessary to kill the animals as Japan does to study them.

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Greenpeace Builds Replica of Noah's Ark

Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat — where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood — in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.

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Brazil's New Forestry Law Draws Praise

New rules that allow sustainable logging of national forests in the threatened Amazon drew guarded praise from both environmentalists and loggers.

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Greenpeace Activists Arrested in Brazil

Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after launching a protest against Brazil's largest soy exporter at an Amazon River port.

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Greenpeace: McDonald's Harming the Amazon

Greenpeace on Thursday said McDonald's was fueling Amazon rainforest destruction by using soybeans grown in the region as feed for chickens that end up served in the fast-food chain's European restaurants.

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INDONESIA has deported two foreign journalists covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra - bringing to 15 the number of people kicked out of the country over the protest.

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Global Climate Change

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Greenpeace activists arrested at NZ port; Greenpeace said that clearing rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia to plant palm plantations is causing 'massive carbon emissions,' which are blamed for global warning.

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Greenpeace protesters occupied an oilfield property outside Edmonton on Saturday, the third dramatic demonstration the group has staged against Alberta's controversial oilsands development in recent weeks.

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new report, released last week by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) forecasts that the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. This new revelation is much faster than forecast just two years ago.

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In what appeared to be the most visible demonstration yet of this week's G-20 summit, four people attached to a massive banner dangled from a Pittsburgh bridge Wednesday to protest the global economic meeting.

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Law enforcement officials are erecting a security perimeter around the David Lawrence Convention Center, where the leaders of the world's major economies will meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss ways to combat the global recession.

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Greenpeace activists demanding a logging halt were attacked when they led a peaceful protest at the headquarters of Indonesia's largest logging and palm oil company, the Sinar Mas Group, in Jakarta today.

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Greenpeace is not just about stopping whaling. It has many active chapters all over the world. The Mexican branch of Greenpeace recently held a protest in front of the foreign ministry in Mexico City. The issue they were calling attention to was climate change.

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During an Aug. 5 interview with the BBC, Gerd Leipold, outgoing executive director of Greenpeace, admitted that his organization emotionalizes issues to influence the public.

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Leipold's admission that Greenpeace issued misleading information is a major embarrassment to the organization, which often has been accused of alarmism but has always insisted that it applies full scientific rigor in its global-warming pronouncements.  Although he admitted G …

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The organization sent activists to HP's global headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., where they climbed on top of the building and painted a gigantic message announcing "Hazardous Products", using non toxic children's finger-paint.

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Ms. Miller, an activist with Greenpeace, had worked hard on her own time to elect Barack Obama because he directly and urgently addressed the issue nearest her heart: climate change.

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Environmentalists who scaled Mount Rushmore and unfurled an anti-global warming banner along President Abraham Lincoln's face Wednesday were charged with trespassing.

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Activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest on top of the reactor dome of the Unterweser nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony on Monday.

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Be sure to read this "special edition" of the International Herald Tribune.

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Rejecting flawed pro-coal ETS scheme, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Wilderness Society & others (over 400,000 members) say policies of pro-coal Australian Government (supported by Green "traitors") a failure.

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There is little to no market for whale meat in Japan, according to the manager of the import company Asian Trading Co Ltd, which has been Hvalur hf.'s main Japanese customer.

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Environmental groups like Greenpeace and the Basel Action Network have tracked shipments of e-waste intended for recycling to countries such as China, Ghana and Nigeria and found computers, TVs and other electronics being dismantled by smashing or burning, exposing people to merc …

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Greenpeace activists on Monday draped a giant banner from a Deutsche Bank tower in Frankfurt to demand more funding for efforts to combat climate change.

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Americans have been long chastised for our environmental footprints (and for good reason). But the latest report from environmental groups including Greenpeace should give us major reason to pause. The Guardian could not have said it any better:

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The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country's love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners.

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...A group of Greenpeace activists yesterday demonstrated outside the Japanese Embassy in Ankara, demanding that charges be dropped against two of their organization's members arrested in Japan.

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A little over a year ago, a routine audit at Wal-Mart reported a few missing exit signs at the company's stores and warehouses.

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Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, would publicly call for a moratorium on deforestation by Indonesian growers of the coveted oil used in food, soaps, detergents, cosmetics and biofuel.

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