Topic: Greenpeace International

Greenpeace activists arrested in climate demo

Six Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.The six were detained as they tried to hang a banner reading "Listen to the People, not the Polluters" ...
In a legal first, Micronesia has challenged plans to expand a coal-fired power station in the Czech Republic, arguing its emissions will increase the climate change risks facing the Pacific nation.Environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time a country whose ...
Washington- During the opening ceremony of the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Greenpeace activists staged a climate crime scene investigation in search of oil billionaire David Koch. David Koch and his brother Charles ...
The 'Kingsnorth Six' admitted causing ?30,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station - yet a jury still refused to find them guilty. But John Sauven, the head of the environment group that came close to being proscribed as a terrorist ...

Eco Soundings

Trying times for deniersRightwing commentators and climate change deniers have gone wild at the trial verdict that cleared Greenpeace direct action protesters of committing a criminal offence. But a gold star goes to Melanie Phillips, writing in her Spectator blog, who calls ...

Climb every chimney ...

Ten years ago, the idea that the head of Greenpeace could sit down at a banquet for the rainforest with the Prince of Wales and David Attenborough, along with ministers and some of the world's richest people, would have been inconceivable. But ...
The 'Kingsnorth Six' admitted causing ?30,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station - yet a jury still refused to find them guilty. But John Sauven, the head of the environment group that came close to being proscribed as a terrorist ...