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London has pledged to host the greenest Olympic Games ever staged, but it could take years before the promises start to flower. http://phys.org/news256287639.html Technology Tue, 15 May 2012 08:10:01 EST news256287639 A new round of global climate talks opened in Bonn on Monday with rich and poor countries squaring off over greenhouse gas reduction targets to halt the pace of planet warming. http://phys.org/news256226978.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 May 2012 15:10:15 EST news256226978 (AP) -- Swedish police on Thursday arrested six Greenpeace activists after they boarded an icebreaker off Sweden's southeast coast, forcing authorities to tow the ship it back into land. http://phys.org/news255258205.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 May 2012 10:30:01 EST news255258205 A Greenpeace activist on Wednesday flew inside the grounds of a French nuclear power plant using a motorised paraglider, police and the organisation said. http://phys.org/news255163836.html Technology Wed, 02 May 2012 08:10:02 EST news255163836 Activists rappelled down a Seattle office building Thursday to get Microsoft and Amazon.com to use clean energy to power datacenters running services based in the Internet "cloud." http://phys.org/news254071093.html Technology Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:30:01 EST news254071093 Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans' use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise. http://phys.org/news253881278.html Technology Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:00:03 EST news253881278 Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to building a giant $2.9 billion hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, rejecting a bid by environmentalists to block it. http://phys.org/news252774995.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:16:41 EST news252774995 Critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing is not stopped, a coalition of environmental groups warned Wednesday. http://phys.org/news252146189.html Biology Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:36:33 EST news252146189 Greenpeace on Friday warned that chemicals from a cruise ship wreck were oozing into the sea around Italy's picturesque Giglio Island but the environment ministry said the levels were not "significant". http://phys.org/news250535010.html Space & Earth Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:04:04 EST news250535010 Silicon Valley giants at the prestigious TED innovation conference here on Tuesday were warned that the worship of technology will ruin the world before it saves it. http://phys.org/news249714244.html Technology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:20:01 EST news249714244 Switzerland's Beznau nuclear plant will soon boast the "dubious record" of being the oldest nuclear plant in the world and should be shut down, a group of environmental organisations said Thursday. http://phys.org/news249225592.html Technology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:20:03 EST news249225592 The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth's satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers have used them to estimate the amount of fish being cultivated in the Mediterranean. http://phys.org/news247944439.html Biology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:40:01 EST news247944439 Every year, a group of anti-whaling nonprofit organizations that includes Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, and the World Wildlife Fund spend, by conservative estimates, some $25 million on a variety of activities intended to end commercial whaling. http://phys.org/news245502795.html Biology Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:21 EST news245502795 (AP) -- Facebook and Greenpeace have called a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network's own platform to campaign against it. http://phys.org/news243169219.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:06:46 EST news243169219 Fukushima's residents are being left to their fate and not enough is being done to protect them against radiation nine months after Japan's tsunami, environment group Greenpeace said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news242484360.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:46:15 EST news242484360 Greenpeace activists on Thursday diverted oil executives from a meeting on prospecting possibilities off Greenland and instead gave them a 20-minute environmental lecture, the group said. http://phys.org/news241970810.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:00:01 EST news241970810 The owner of Shark's Fin City, a dried fin wholesaler in Hong Kong's quarter for all things shrivelled, says there are only a few people who know the truth about sharks, and he's one of them. http://phys.org/news241665853.html Biology Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:40:01 EST news241665853 A French court handed disgraced US cyclist Floyd Landis a suspended sentence and fined energy giant EDF on Thursday after ruling that both used a shady corporate espionage operation to hack computers. http://phys.org/news240150666.html Technology Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:31:12 EST news240150666 Dutch-Belgian energy market provider APX-Endex launched a "biomass exchange" Thursday specialising in trading wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, a venture it said was a world first. http://phys.org/news239548779.html Technology Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:10:01 EST news239548779 Permits dug up by the Charlotte Observer have revealed Apple Inc.'s plan to build a gigantic solar farm to help power its recently built $1 billion data center in North Carolina. Apple has not formally announced the project and did not respond to the Observer's request to confirm it, but work to clear the land for construction has already begun, angering some nearby residents. http://phys.org/news239371235.html Technology Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:30:01 EST news239371235 Greenpeace on Friday slammed "alarming gaps" in EU-wide safety checks on nuclear plants, notably for failing to address "the unthinkable" after Fukushima. http://phys.org/news239033918.html Technology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:18:44 EST news239033918 Purpose-built, ultra-modern and ready to fight environmental destruction on the high seas, Greenpeace's latest campaign ship, Rainbow Warrior III, made its maiden voyage Wednesday. http://phys.org/news238299061.html Space & Earth Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:11:07 EST news238299061 Greenpeace launched its latest weapon in the fight against environmental destruction Friday -- a multi-million-euro purpose-built campaign ship named Rainbow Warrior III. http://phys.org/news237815198.html Space & Earth Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:46:46 EST news237815198 A train carrying nuclear waste on Tuesday left the Netherlands bound for a recycling plant in France, the second such shipment that has sparked ire and protests of anti-nuclear activists. http://phys.org/news237614727.html Space & Earth Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:05:37 EST news237614727 US toy giant Mattel, maker of the world-famous Barbie doll, has decided to use more environmentally friendly materials in its packaging after months of criticism from Greenpeace. http://phys.org/news237105487.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:38:14 EST news237105487 The world remains far away from meeting UN-backed goals on holding back climate change, setting the stage for major damage without more ambitious efforts to cut emissions, a study said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news236968260.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:31:14 EST news236968260 Toxic mining disasters loom in eastern Europe as the European Union has failed to pass legislation a year after Hungary's lethal toxic mud spill, an environmentalist group said on Monday. http://phys.org/news236846661.html Space & Earth Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:20:01 EST news236846661 A year after Hungary's worst chemicals spill released vast amounts of poisonous red mud, levels of toxic substances are lower than feared but still above average, Greenpeace said on Wednesday. http://phys.org/news236414378.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:39:51 EST news236414378 We sort our rubbish. We recycle our rainwater. We worry about depleted oceans, ravaged rainforests, threatened species. http://phys.org/news235191720.html Space & Earth Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:30:01 EST news235191720 A simple phone call about dead sea otters washing up on the shores of Alaska after US nuclear tests lead to the birth of environmental organization Greenpeace four decades ago. http://phys.org/news235049883.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:10:02 EST news235049883