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The greenest paper of them all

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Wondering which paper towel or toilet paper is the greenest? The nonprofit advocacy group Greenpeace has released a pocket guide to paper products -- an updated version of the old National Resources Defense Council guide. ...





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Greenpeace takes on tuna fishing

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 23, 2008 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Greenpeace says it confronted a U.S. tuna boat in the South Pacific this week as part of an effort to fight overfishing by commercial fishing fleets.


Greenpeace opposes Italian gas terminal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 29, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Environmental activists want to block Italian plans to install a floating natural gas terminal in the middle of a whale and dolphin sanctuary.


Setting sail with Greenpeace

Setting sail with Greenpeace

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4

A pioneering Greenpeace arctic expedition has joined forces with a University of St Andrews academic to investigate the impacts of climate change.


GM rice from U.S. found in EU

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 13, 2006 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Genetically modified rice from the United States has been found in the European Union, in violation of a ban on import, growth and sale of such crops.


Tuna near extinction in Mediterranean

Biology /

created Jul 17, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The World Wildlife Fund says bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean is nearing extinction.


Genetically modified rice could pose risks

Other Sciences /

created Jun 14, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

BEIJING, June 14 (UPI) -- Greenpeace China has warned that experimental, genetically modified rice is being illegally sold in southern China, posing possible risks to consumers.Researchers from the environmental group collected ...


Germany's biofuels plan stalls

Technology / Energy

created Apr 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

German officials said a plan to introduce a biofuel gasoline blend containing 10 percent ethanol may be postponed.


Japan: Whaling follows international law

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created Jan 17, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese government officials say their nation's whaling fleet is operating only for research purposes, in accordance with international rules.


GMO maize strain safe: EU food agency

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A genetically modified strain of maize, banned in some EU countries, poses no risk to health or the environment, the European Food Safety Authority declared Tuesday.


Salazar reviews 'midnight' endangered species rule (AP)

Salazar reviews 'midnight' endangered species rule

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he will make a decision in the coming weeks on whether to overturn a controversial Bush administration regulation that limits the reach of the Endangered Species ...



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