Tag: Greenpeace

• Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 10:23 UTC

  Moscow declares Greenpeace an “undesirable organization,” forcing it to close its Russian branch

  

  Russia on Friday declared the environmental group Greenpeace an “undesirable organization.” The designation criminalizes the work of organizations that bear the brand and puts employees at risk of criminal prosecution.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Greenpeace dropped a chain of boulders in UK's MPA South West Deeps to prevent industrial trawling

  

  Greenpeace UK activists have dropped boulders into the English Channel at the South West Deeps (190 kilometers south of Land's End Cornwall) to prevent industrial trawling. The South West Deeps is one of the UK’s Marine Protected Areas and Greenpeace says the boulder barrier will stop industrial bottom trawlers from dragging weighted nets across the sea floor.

• Friday, April 15th 2022 - 21:15 UTC

  Greenpeace ship moors in Buenos Aires

  

  Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise will be open to the public Sunday after mooring Thursday in the port of Buenos Aires. The vessel from the environmental organization returned to land from a mission to survey fishing exploitation in Atlantic Ocean international waters near the Argentine Sea.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  NGOs claim most deforestation in northern Argentina during 2021 was illegal

  

  Around 110,180 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, and Salta during the year 2021 as a result of illegal practices, according to Greenpeace.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Greenpeace: “Coca Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi, ”world's top corporate plastic polluters”

  

  Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report: “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World's Top Corporate Plastic Polluters”, released by Greenpeace.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Deforestation of Amazonia takes turn for the worse despite Brazilian President's promises

  

  Brazil's National Institute Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has released over this past weekend updated data regarding the deforestation of Amazonia between August 2020 and July 2021.

• Saturday, February 8th 2020 - 11:09 UTC

  Greenpeace blames global warming for record temperatures in Antarctica

  

  Global warming is to blame for Argentine Antarctica recording its hottest day since readings began, Greenpeace said on Friday. Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at midday Thursday at the research station Esperanza base, the highest temperature on record since 1961, according to the National Meteorological Service.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 17:20 UTC

  Spanish actor Bardem calls for a world accord to protect the oceans

  

  Spanish actor Javier Bardem on Monday defended the need for a world pact to protect the oceans, just as the third round of negotiations on the subject is kicking off at the United Nations, where he is participating as an ambassador for Greenpeace.

• Sunday, July 7th 2019 - 11:41 UTC

  Russia claims releases from “whale prison” have been successful: Greenpeace and scientists criticize

  

  Russian research scientists defended the way they released eight whales back into the wild last week and said on Thursday they would release scores more of the captive animals in the same way despite anger from environmental groups.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  Greenpeace on campaign against deep sea mining, at least until more information on the ecosystem is available

  

  Greenpeace ship sets sail on Thursday to study an ecosystem beneath the Atlantic Ocean thought to hold clues to the origins of life to press its case for a ban on deep-sea mining, as talks in Jamaica seek to agree on rules of deep-sea mineral exploitation.