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Hurricane Harvey: How Climate Change Kills
Hurricane Harvey is a reminder of the cost we pay for climate denial and inaction, Ryan Schleeter writes. With rain expected to continue falling through this Friday, what we already know about Hurricane Harvey paints a devastating picture. Hurricane Harvey is a reminder of the cost we pay for climate denial and inaction, Ryan Schleeter writes. With…
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Oil companies’ plans to drill near the Amazon Reef are in big trouble
BP and Total have suffered a massive setback in their plans to drill for oil near the Amazon Reef. The companies’ joint application for a drilling permit is in crisis, after the Brazilian government rejected their environmental impact study. BP and Total have suffered a massive setback in their plans to drill for oil near the Amazon…
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Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons?
On this International Day Against Nuclear Tests, Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, reflects on 46 years of fighting against nuclear weapons. Women of Rongelap island welcome Bunny McDiarmid as crew members from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrive ashore on the atoll. The Rainbow Warrior is in Rongelap to assist in the evacuation…
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Is your smartphone generating unnecessary e-waste?
Bottom line: The ability to repair your smartphone is more important than you might think. How exactly do smartphones contribute to waste? And how can we proactively reduce this e-waste output? We’ve got all the information you need. Men selecting electronic waste from used cellular phones at a workshop in Bantar Gebang area, Bekasi, West…
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Greenpeace activists confront Norwegian government’s Arctic oil drilling site
Press release – 17 August, 2017Korpfjell, Barents Sea, Norway 17 August 2017: Peaceful activists from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have entered the exclusion zone of Statoil’s oil rig, Songa Enabler in the Barents Sea with kayaks and inflatable boats, while swimmers are in the waters protesting with hand banners.The activists are there to deliver…
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Government doing nothing to protect communities from toxic power plants
Press release – 14 August, 2017August 15, 2017: A report has found that levels of toxic air pollution emitted by Australian coal fired power plants are so high that many of them would be illegal in the US and Europe.Released today Environmental Justice Australia’s report Toxic and terminal: How the regulation of coal-fired power stations…
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Keep the pressure up on CommBank
The Commonwealth Bank have just announced that they have ruled out funding the Carmichael mine. They have joined 24 other banks from around the world in saying they won’t fund this dodgy, destructive, mega mine project. This is Big News! The Commonwealth Bank have just announced that they have ruled out funding the Carmichael…
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Greenpeace urges Minister Upton to ban the bag at Keep NSW Beautiful Congress
Press release – 1 August, 2017Ahead of Minister Upton’s speech at the Keep NSW Beautiful Congress today, Greenpeace sent a colourful message to the NSW Environment Minister to clean up the state’s act and finally ban the bag.Greenpeace parked a 5 metre high mobile billboard out the front of the Congress at the Kirribilli Club…
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Billions of bags: The cost of inaction on plastics in NSW and Victoria
Last Friday 28/07, state and territory environment ministers met in Melbourne. Plastic pollution was on the agenda – and there was a great deal of hope that NSW and Victoria would finally join the movement to ban single-use plastic bags. Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the venue of a meeting which News South Wales State Premier,…
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The cost of NSW and Victoria’s lag on banning the bag – up to two billion more plastic bags a year
Press release – 30 July, 2017July 28, 2017: New analysis by Greenpeace released today shows that if NSW and Vic continue to fail to ‘ban the bag’, an estimated 1.6 – 2 billion more bags per year will be used in Australia, even with voluntary phase outs by supermarkets.The analysis comes as Environment Ministers from…