Environment

Glyphosate: authorise for just seven years and professional uses only, urge MEPs

Given concerns about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, used in many farm and garden applications, the EU Commission should renew its marketing approval for just 7 years, instead of 15, and for...

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EU Parliament backs glyphosate restrictions

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Protest action at European Commission buildings in Brussels against...

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Taiwan’s fisheries plagued by human rights abuses and shark finning - Greenpeace investigation

A year-long Greenpeace East Asia investigation into Taiwan’s distant water tuna fisheries has exposed Illegal shark finning, labour and human rights abuses, as well as Taiwan’s failure to adequately address issues such as murder and drug smuggling at...

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Greenpeace activists demand Siemens step away from destructive hydropower

Activists from Greenpeace Germany gathered at the global headquarters of technology giant Siemens AG in Munich, Germany today to shine a spotlight on the company’s potential involvement in a new hydropower dam in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

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