Chemical in sunscreen attacks coral reefs
World October 20, 2015 | 9:23 am
Santo Domingo /PRNewswire/.-- A new study published today in a toxicology journal has found that achemical widely used in personal care products such as sunscreen, poses anecological threat to cora[...]
Greenpeace activists protest South Korea’s plan to build world’s largest nuclear power plant
World October 13, 2015 | 10:03 am
Seoul.- Greenpeace activists today entered therestricted zone of the Kori nuclear power plant near Busan, South Korea’ssecond largest city, to protest the country’s expansion of nuclear and it[...]
Greenpeace global campaign: Change tuna industry for good…today
World October 9, 2015 | 10:49 am
"As the appetite forcheap fish worldwide grows, so does the demand for men who are paid little ornothing to catch it. Thailand's $7 billion annual seafood export industry isbuilt on the backs [...]
Dominican man pleads guilty to illegally re-entering U.S.
World October 3, 2015 | 12:48 pm
AKWESASNE -- A Dominican man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Friday to illegally re-entering the United States following removal, according to Syracuse-b[...]
Taiwan faces EU sanction on fisheries
World October 1, 2015 | 9:35 am
Taipei, 1 October 2015 - Three weeks after GreenpeaceRainbow Warrior busted Taiwanese tuna longliner Shuen De Ching No.888 (???888?)fishing illegally in the Pacific, the European Commission has yel[...]
Fossil fuel companies face landmark national human rights complaint on climate change
World September 22, 2015 | 11:47 am
Manila.- Typhoonsurvivors and civil society groups in the Philippines today delivered acomplaint to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR) callingfor an investigation into the resp[...]
Tropical Storm Ida poses no threat to land
World September 19, 2015 | 11:08 am
Miami.– Tropical Storm Ida formed Friday night in the central Atlantic Ocean, over 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast, Ida is expect[...]
Cubans ready for Pope Francis’s visit but do not expect miracles
World September 19, 2015 | 11:03 am
Havana.– Cubans feel especially warm to Pope Francis, who will visit the island for the first time as pontiff, for his fellow Latin American blood, humble image and help towards ending hostilitie[...]
Greenpeace calls for overhaul of Pacific fishing practices after Nauru transshiment ban
World September 17, 2015 | 8:32 am
Sydney.– Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called for aregion-wide ban on the transshipment of fish catches following Nauru’sannouncement today that it would no longer allow the practice in its[...]
Florida couple accused of running sex resort in Dominican Republic
World September 12, 2015 | 8:52 am
Miami.– Jennifer and Alfred Cotten, of Fort Myers, Florida, have been charged with promoting prostitution; the couple is accused of running a sex tourismoperation that set up customers with prost[...]
Disgraced former nuncio buried in Poland
World September 7, 2015 | 6:55 am
Warsaw.- The Polish Roman Catholic Church buried theformer papal diplomatic envoy who died before facing trial forsexual abuse of minors and possession of child pornography. Silence andcontemplatio[...]
Fossil of ancient monkey found in Dominican Republic: Report
World September 4, 2015 | 3:26 pm
An international team of scientists have dated a species of fossil monkey found across the Caribbean to just over 1 million years old, eurekalert.org reports.
The discovery was made after the[...]
IAEA Fukushima report downplays radiation risks and ignores science – Greenpeace
World September 2, 2015 | 9:24 am
Tokyo, 1 September2015 – The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Fukushima report,released Monday downplays the ongoing environmental and health effects of theFukushima nuclear disaster[...]
Wesolowski dies before facing child abuse trial
World August 28, 2015 | 7:26 am
According to international media reports, Jozef Wesolowski, a former Polish archbishop and the Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, died Friday, before his trial on child sex offe[...]
Scientists alarmed by ‘seismic blasting’ by oil industry in the Arctic Ocean
World August 24, 2015 | 12:18 pm
Greenland Sea.-- Firing seismic airguns to find new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean is ‘alarming’ and could seriously injure whales and other marine life, according to a new scientific review.[...]
Sendai nuclear plant is unprotected against large volcano outbreak: Greenpeace
World August 21, 2015 | 10:37 am
Tokyo,– The Japan Meteorological Agency has warned that Mount Sakurajima, one of the most active volcanoes in Japan and situated near the recently restarted Sendai Nuclear Power Plant, is showing[...]
Dominican Republic: Start of deportations
World August 15, 2015 | 12:40 am
Washington.– The United States is aware of the decision by the Dominican Republic to begin deporting persons who are deemed illegally present in the country. We recognize the prerogative of the D[...]
Research from Harvard reveals health impacts of Indonesia’s coal plants
World August 13, 2015 | 10:12 am
Jakarta.- Existing coal plants in Indonesia cause anestimated 7,100 premature deaths every year according to research by HarvardUniversity and Greenpeace Southeast Asia – the first of its kind t[...]
Greenpeace warns Sendai nuclear restart will not end nuclear crisis facing Abe government
World August 11, 2015 | 10:20 am
Tokyo. — The restartof the Sendai nuclear reactor today will not reverse the terminal decline ofJapan's nuclear industry, given all nine Japanese nuclear utilities are facedwith insurmountable sa[...]
Hiroshima anniversary a reminder that peace is the best self defence – Greenpeace
World August 6, 2015 | 9:50 am
Tokyo, 6 August,2015 – Greenpeace Japan commemorates the dropping of the nuclear bomb onHiroshima 70 years ago today, and warns against the current government’sdismantling of Japan’s so-calle[...]
Russia lays claim to North Pole, Greenpeace reacts
World August 4, 2015 | 11:30 am
Moscow.— Reacting tonews that Russia has submitted a claim to the seabed around the North Pole,Greenpeace Russia Arctic campaigner Vladimir Chuprov said: "The melting ofthe Arctic ice is unc[...]
Solutions to Greek crisis: Greenpeace Greece launches crowdfunding campaign
World July 28, 2015 | 10:05 am
Rhodes, Greece.– 21 Greenpeace activists from Greece, Italy and Spain today spread a 600 square meter arrow banner reading ‘Oil is fueling Greek debt’, pointing at a Greek oil-fired power pla[...]
Building geographical indications for the Caribbean’s origin-linked products
World July 22, 2015 | 4:23 pm
Bridgetown, Barbados.- The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) opened the two-day sub-regional workshop on branding and the use of geographical indications in the development of[...]
