Environment
Trouble Brewing for Ugandan Tea Farmers
Worker uses plucking shears to pick tea, which tends to reduce quality of the finished product, Uganda.
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Greenpeace activists occupy Taiwan shipbuilding yard to protest overfishing
Activists unfurled a large banner saying “Overfishing Starts Here” at the facility where massive industrial fishing boats destined to fish across the globe's oceans are built.
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UN environmental agency to help Afghanistan combat effects of climate change
Afghanistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the impacts of climate change.
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AVX CORP. TO PAY $366 MILLION IN SETTLEMENT, ACCELERATING CLEANUP OF NEW BEDFORD HARBOR CONTAMINATION IN MASSACHUSETTS
The Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, have reached a settlement with AVX Corp. for $366.25 million plus interest regarding the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site, in New Bedford, Mass.
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More than 3 million hectares of elephant, gorilla habitat get new protection
Western Lowland Gorilla, Silverback male.
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South Korea again bars Greenpeace staff from country to silence nuclear critics
Jan Beranek, Greenpeace International energy team lead, and Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace International nuclear campaigner, were stopped at Seoul's Incheon airport today and not allowed into the country, where they were due to present at a seminar on nuclear power and meet journalists.
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Governments invest too slowly in planet’s natural wealth, WWF tells CBD delegates
Securing the natural freshwater systems of the Himalayas.
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Dutch court grants Greenpeace right to stage peaceful protests against Shell
Last friday in a ruling issued, Shell’s proposed injunction was rebuffed by the President of the Amsterdam court, Han Jongeneel, who said the protests Greenpeace Netherlands has already taken in the Netherlands at Shell’s headquarters and petrol stations were both proportionate and appropriate in light of Greenpeace’s earlier efforts to end Shell’s Arctic oil drilling through other means.
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Bluefin tuna: encouraging signs but this is only the start - efforts still needed
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) feeding in the Mediterranean Sea
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Human Rights
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020