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Warnings over proposed merger of UK's nuclear police forces - The Guardian
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Warnings over proposed merger of UK's nuclear police forces
The Guardian
He said: "The conviction of senior EDF company executives in France for spying on Greenpeace and the Mark Kennedy case in this country, where an undercover police officer spied on climate campaigners, shows how power could easily be abused for ...
Greenpeace campaigner found not guilty in Taiwan - Fishnewseu
Greenpeace campaigner found not guilty in Taiwan
Fishnewseu
THE Greenpeace East Asia oceans campaigner Yu Fen Kao received a not guilty verdict in Taiwanese court on Friday. He was being tried on charges of aggravated defamation brought by Taiwanese shipping company Chang Soon, owner of the Vanuatu-flagged fish ...
What do you think we should be doing to save the Arctic? - Greenpeace UK (blog)
What do you think we should be doing to save the Arctic?
Greenpeace UK (blog)
Well, we're at a tipping point, there is no stopping these lunatics, so this movement needs to up the ante, Greenpeace almost needs to become a party, a mass movement the likes of which has never been seen before. The time is now and we all have to ...
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Google Earth Verifies Mediterranean Aquaculture Data - TheFishSite.com
Google Earth Verifies Mediterranean Aquaculture Data
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“Our colleagues have repeatedly shown that accurate reporting of wild-caught fish has been a problem, and we wondered whether there might be similar issues for fish farming,” says lead author Pablo Trujillo, an Oceans Science Advisor for Greenpeace ...
Labour Can Enhance Economic Credibility With an Alternative Budget - Huffington Post UK (blog)
Labour Can Enhance Economic Credibility With an Alternative Budget
Huffington Post UK (blog)
Greenpeace estimates that renewing the Trident nuclear weapons programme could cost as much as £97 billion over 30 years, including upfront procurement costs of potentially £15-20 billion. This should be scrapped. In total, the Institute of Economic ...
Has Environmentalism Become An Institution? - UK Progressive Magazine
UK Progressive Magazine
Has Environmentalism Become An Institution?
UK Progressive Magazine
... that only the “elite” have the right to do so. …why is it that groups like Greenpeace and the one that uses the Seashepherd not follow their “Green” preachings and build ships made of dead trees, instead of using the latest technology in ships, ...
Major GM company gives up on Europe and turns to US - Farming Life
Major GM company gives up on Europe and turns to US
Farming Life
Anti-GM NGOs such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace hailed the news as a victory for consumers and the environment. But many farmers and scientists fear these decisions could be the first of a series of moves which could cause serious long term ...
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Big Miracle – review - The Guardian
The Guardian
Big Miracle – review
The Guardian
There followed a rescue mission that involved the media, the oil industry, the politicians, Greenpeace, the Wildlife Management Dept, the National Guard, the small-town inventors of a domestic thawing device and the USSR in its dying days.
FILM REVIEW: Big Miracle (PG)Littlehampton Gazette
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Wind industry's extensive lobbying to preserve subsidies and defeat local ... - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Wind industry's extensive lobbying to preserve subsidies and defeat local ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Mr Rice, who was convicted of trespass on the roof of the Palace of Westminster in 2009 as part of a mass Greenpeace protest, is also hired out directly by energy companies, including Renewable Energy Systems. RES is estimated to earn £15 million a ...
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Not your regular run of the mill “go make me some copies” type of internship
Nate Prosser is an online outreach coordinator at a Canadian free legal aid organisation. In this guest blog he writes about a new activist site he started with a friend from Italy after they spent six months as interns in Greenpeace. We are accepting applications for our online communications internship right now. Please apply if you think you'd be a good match and would like to join us in Amsterdam for six months.
I know there was a time when the internet didn’t exist. I do. But this fact occupies that same vague space in my memory as, say, the fall of the Berlin Wall or cassette tapes. For all intents and purposes the internet has always been around for me and my generation; it’s an integral part of my everyday life. It’s no surprise then that online activism has seen a major surge in recent years. Using the internet for activism has always seemed like a natural extension and I’ve had plenty of discussions on the practicalities, techniques, and nuances of online campaigning in the office, classroom, and bars. Ironically enough though I could never find a place online to have these discussions with a wider audience. That’s why Oriana and I, both former Greenpeace interns, decided to create clicktivist.org; a site to share, discuss, and dissect the world of online campaigning.
The project kicked off a few months ago, after several weeks of emails, thousands words of planning, and a dozen Google Docs. The idea behind it is simple: by examining online campaigns and tools we hope we can learn from each other’s successes and failures so that we can create more engaging and more effective campaigns. What inspired this idea, at the source of it, is our shared experience at Greenpeace with the online communications team. This is the story (at least from my point of view) of how Greenpeace played a role in the creation of clicktivist.org.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that I found myself standing outside Greenpeace’s international headquarters for the first time. It’s an unassuming building - 3 stories, grey, and not exactly covered in banners - and I had to double check the address to make sure I was in the right place. That was until I stepped inside and was almost immediately whisked into an all staff briefing; it turns out that about 5 hours before I showed up a group of Greenpeace activists had scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland - it was kind of a big deal. That set the tone for the next 6 months. I think it was my second day working there when I was asked to help write an email campaign that would go out to all of Greenpeace’s supporters around the world. That’s a lot of people, a lot of responsibility, and a lot a trust. That’s when I knew that the next six months weren’t going to be your regular run of the mill “go make me some copies” type of internship.
I was like a kid in a candy shop working with Greenpeace’s online team. You see, before going to Greenpeace I had spent years studying the uses of digital media for activism around the world. To be able to go into work and see these principles in action was a dream come true. I don’t think it’s any surprise that I wasn’t the only person there that felt that way. Everyday we’d have discussions about online activism. It was during one of these conversations that the idea for clicktivist.org first occurred to me.
The idea came to me - as ideas, some brilliant, many horrible, often do - over a few beers. It was a cold winter night in Amsterdam and a few of us had fled the office for the shelter of a little bar on the Overtoom. The conversation flitted around but quickly settled, as I’m sure many of you are used to, on the topic of “cool things we saw on the internet”; for a group of activists that’s likely to be campaigns as much as lolcats. Someone brought up a campaign featuring irradiated vegetables from Scandinavia, someone else mentioned using text messages in China to campaign against deforestation, an example of thinly veiled innuendo using the size of juvenile fish entered the fray, and I brought up the Persian penchant for anonymous blogging. None of us had ever heard of the other’s examples.
I sat there, beer in hand, thinking “why weren’t we aware of these?” We were in one some of the best positions to see these and yet we were still blind to them. The idea had wormed its into my head.
Soon after my internship ended I, somewhat reluctantly, returned home to Vancouver. I wasn’t done with Greenpeace however. From Vancouver I continued to work as a sometimes-volunteer-sometimes-freelancer for both the local and international offices. Though I was still doing the work I was starved for the conversation.
I alleviated this need through text, IM, Skype, and email across country and continents with people who I had met while working for Greenpeace. One such person was my good friend and (vastly superior) replacement at Greenpeace, Oriana Lauria. We had worked on a few big projects together while in Amsterdam and both enjoyed that experience enough to want to continue working together. The only problem was the Atlantic Ocean and around 9 Canadian provinces in the way. The obvious solution was to use our beloved internet and start a website. We began brainstorming ideas but that process didn’t last long. Oriana suggested a site devoted to online activism and I cursed her for a mind reader before quickly signing on.
From there it was a flurry of activity, emails, and Google Docs to set up and organize the website, and here we are today, with clicktivist.org up and running.
On the website, you can now find everything you need to know (well, not just yet, but we’ll get there!) to be inspired into online activism. That is, digital campaign reviews, latest trends in clicktivism, interviews with experts and, what it’s even more important, a lot of room for your ideas, comments and suggestions.
I hope you’ll find the site useful and join in on the discussion.
Remember: We are accepting applications for our online communications internship right now. Please apply if you think you'd be a good match.
Google tops Greenpeace 'Cool IT' leaderboard - Digital Spy UK
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Google tops Greenpeace 'Cool IT' leaderboard
Digital Spy UK
Greenpeace praised Google for its continuous investment in renewable energy and its efforts to meet climate change targets. Apple did not make the list, and was criticised for failing to adopt the green strategies of its competitors.
Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankingsRegister
Google tops Greenpeace IT rankingThe Guardian
GOOGLE: Greenpeace awardXperedon Charity News
Energy Efficiency News -PC Advisor
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Eat it up Monsanto!
There's a story doing the rounds again, about how Monsanto, one of the world’s largest profiteers of genetically engineered (GE) food, banned GE food from its own corporate canteens!
Monsanto had its pants pulled down by Friends of the Earth in 1999, who revealed that the company was refusing to serve to its own staff the very same GE food that it incessantly foists upon impoverished nations on the premise that it will save populations from starvation. Although it has never been proved, Monsanto constantly claims that GE food is harmless – so why wasn't it serving it in its own office?
In one canteen, run by external provider, Sutcliffe Catering, a notice read that a decision has been taken to remove, as far as practicable, GE soya and maize from all food products served in the canteen. “We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve", the provider said.
“We believe in choice”, said Monsanto, while the company actually made sure that by not serving GE food in its canteens they did not give staff the opportunity to ‘choose’ whether or not to eat GE food as they de facto ensure that the staff did not get to eat GE food. Yet the same choice isn’t available to farmers around the world, who most of the time have no choice but to plant GE crops, thanks to a seed market that is often dominated by Monsanto.
Once the GE seeds are in the ground, a vicious circle is started; farmers no longer have the opportunity to choose, as once GE seeds have been released into the environment it is not possible to contain or control them, as an individual seed travels with wind or is swept away by rainwater and may set root in soil owned by a farmer who does not at all want to plant GE seeds. In a recent protest in a Manhattan courtroom US farmers said it is no longer possible for them to keep GE seeds off their fields due to contamination.
If Monsanto decided for its staff that it cannot eat GE food, and actually removes the staff’s own right to choose, how come the rest of us cannot have the same opportunity? Over 90% of all processed food in the US - such as breakfast cereal and the chicken nuggets often served to kids -are now contaminated by GE, even if the farmers who produced the food actually did not intentionally grow any GE crops.
In one Monsanto office location, staff was reportedly happy to eat GE food, as they preferred food sprayed with fewer pesticides. However, the widespread and increasingly intensive use of pesticides in association with the use of GE crops poses suspected further risks to the environment and human health, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and birth defects. Monsanto's sales pitch to farmers continues to promise reduced labour and financial savings by simplifying and reducing the costs of weed control. The reality turns out to be somewhat different, with GE crops attracting increasing health, biodiversity and environmental concerns, and the development of weed resistance.
Genetic Engineering, corporate control of people's food and the over reliance on pesticides and herbicides are not the solutions. So what is? Ecological Farming. It's safe. It's do-able. And it's happening now. Help us support farming for the future.
So Monsanto, if you feel so confident in the food you serve up to the rest of the planet – are you serving GE food in your canteen these days?
Read more about ecological farming
Caroline Jacobsson is a Communications Manager at Greenpeace International
Edited and updated, on 10 February 2012
Big Miracle review: Drew Barrymore turns eco-warrior - Mirror.co.uk
Big Miracle review: Drew Barrymore turns eco-warrior
Mirror.co.uk
Drew Barrymore stars as a Greenpeace campaigner in this family drama based on a true story, set in 1988. Her character Rachel rushes to Alaska when news breaks of three whales trapped under the ice. Local reporter Adam (John Krasinski) is Rachel's ex, ...
Victory for the oceans and freedom of speech in Taiwan
Greenpeace East Asia oceans campaigner YuFen Kao
I began working for Greenpeace East Asia nearly two years ago, because I always wanted to work on environmental issues and to focus on increasing attention on global issues here in Taiwan. Since I’ve joined Greenpeace, I’ve been focused on changing minds and oceans policy here in Taiwan, home to one our newest offices and to one of the world’s largest fishing powers. Taiwan has the largest number of vessel operating in Pacific Ocean, where 60% of the world’s tuna comes from.
To tell you the truth, it has been a whirlwind few months; I’ve met with industry officials, briefed academics, explained the oceans crisis to journalists and taken part in peaceful protests onboard the Rainbow Warrior. Make no mistake: I am an activist, committed to the ideals of Greenpeace and I know that working for a green and peaceful future entails risks. However, I never thought that I would find myself in court over telling the truth about the urgent crisis facing our oceans, but I am happy to tell you that my legal battle is over- today I was found not guilty of defamation by a Taiwanese court.
A little over a year ago, I was part of a peaceful direct action here in Taiwan against a fish carrier ship called the Lung Yuin. The ship was emblematic of Taiwan’s failure to regulate fishing vessels operating under foreign flags while owned by Taiwanese entities. The Lung Yuin had a record of dodgy registration and questionable at-sea activities, precisely these sorts of things that are helping large-scale industrial fishing ships take too many fish from our oceans: pushing fish populations to the brink of collapse. Overfishing in the Pacific is a huge problem, and Taiwan can and should be working toward solutions. That is why Greenpeace took action, and why Taiwan needs to become a champion of responsible fishing instead of a safe haven for irresponsible ships. I was onboard the Rainbow Warrior during the direct action, and made statements questioning the Taiwanese Fishery Agency’s enforcement of its law requiring all fishing and support vessels sailing under flags other than Taiwan’s - but owned by Taiwan people or companies registered with the Agency.
This law is an important control over a sector of Taiwan’s fishing industry well-known for ignoring fisheries regulations. I told people and the media during and after the action that Taiwan’s government seems to have no intention to enforce and regulate the industry; it was clearly turning a blind eye to the Lung Yuin, unregistered and sitting in port in Kaohsiung. Instead of examining what they’re doing and showing willingness to become a responsible fishing power respectful of laws and regulations that are supposed to keep our oceans full of fish and maintain fishing jobs for future generations, the Taiwanese fishing industry forced me into court and tried to silence me. The company who owned the Lung Yuin, Chang Soon, accused me of damaging their reputation- simply by urging the Taiwanese government to investigate whether they were in compliance with a legal requirement.
Today is a victory both for me personally, and for Taiwanese society, and gives me hope for our oceans too. Greenpeace’s work (and mine) to save our oceans will continue. The work carries on because in a few short weeks, the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission will meet in Guam to decide the future of our Pacific and its valuable tuna resources. Key protections in place for three years in the key tuna-rich areas of the Pacific will need to be strengthened if we are to avoid the collapse of fish populations. The very future of the Pacific region is at stake here: our Pacific and the fish in them provide food and jobs- the most basic of human needs. The crisis facing our oceans is more urgent and dire as ever: this is the year we need oceans protection of the Pacific Commons areas made permanent.
So, watch this space, I’ll be telling you more about the next steps for our campaign in Taiwan and what we’re doing at the Pacific Tuna Commission meeting in Guam.
YuFen Kao is an oceans campaigner based in Greenpeace East Asia’s Taipei office.
Never waste a crisis
Or so the saying goes, and Japan has been in crisis mode for much of the last year. That said, while radioactive contamination fears remain, and economic downturn is causing some pain, you could be forgiven for thinking that the impact of the March 11, 2011 triple-disaster on the country has been negligible. Life seemingly rolls on as normal.
I don’t say that lightly mind you, particularly given the tragic loss of life during the earthquake and tsunami, as well as the ongoing threat to health from radiation exposure. But only three of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors remain online, and come April, there very well may be no nuclear plants running at all, and the impact on society here will remain all but invisible.
Sure, some of the bright advertising lights of Tokyo have been dimmed to conserve power, and some large companies are complaining of increased energy costs, but in a country built on huge power excesses, where there’s a vending machine serving hot or cold drinks on virtually every street, and heated toilet seats in almost every home, there are many places power savings can be made without hurting standard of living.
Increased costs for business shouldn’t be shrugged off of course. People need jobs, and as a huge importer of goods to support its way of life Japan needs to power its business and manufacturing sector. However, for 90% of Japan’s manufacturing sector, energy costs make up a mere 3% of total production costs. No one wants to pay more, but increases in energy prices are hardly a show-stopper, and could be solved relatively fast by more aggressive energy efficiency measures and utilisation of Japan’s barely-tapped renewable potential.
But back to this amazing situation with nuclear power: This time last year, around 30% of Japan’s energy came from nuclear. Given this source of energy has disappeared virtually overnight and there have been no significant problems for society the question must be seriously asked: does Japan really need nuclear?
It certainly isn’t needed in the long-term, as Japan’s population is expected to drop by more than a third by 2060. Averaged out, that’s around 875,000 less people using energy every year for the next 48 years, which makes the governments recently announced plans to extend the lifetimes of nuclear plants and allow them to keep working at the ripe old age of 60 years in one of the most seismically active countries on earth old beyond a little ridiculous.
Speaking of quakes, the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute is strongly predicting that there is a 70% risk of another severe earthquake striking within four years, and a 98% chance of it happening within 30 years. This not only makes restarting reactors a risky proposition for the stability of power supply and the economy, it keeps the threat of another Fukushima-like disaster unnecessarily hanging over the people of this country.
The nuclear lobby, big business, and the Japanese government are pushing hard to restart reactors claiming it is for the health of the economy, but while excess power once helped Japan grow rapidly, nuclear has not saved Japan’s economy from decline, and it’s not going to save it now. By remaining wedded to nuclear the government will be simply playing a game of dice with Japan’s economic future, and the health and safety of its people. It should instead be using this moment of upheaval to end its unhealthy relationship with nuclear utilities like TEPCO, and embrace energy solutions that will keep its people safe, help it stick to greenhouse gas reduction targets, and give its economy a huge boost with a green industry revolution.
The Fukushima disaster created a contamination crisis, but not an energy crisis. It kick-started an identity crisis, destroying Japan’s image as the poster child for a mythical clean and safe nuclear society, and turning it into yet another cautionary tale of the risks governments take on with atomic snake oil salesmen. But it’s not too late. With the remaining three reactors due to go into shutdown over the next month, a nuclear free summer approaches, and a nuclear free future awaits.
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for February 7th – February 9th, 2012
(This post is by Christine McCann)
Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
State of Nuclear Politics in Japan
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) is preparing to grant approval of stress tests conducted on reactors #3 and #4 at Kansai Electric’s Oi power plant in Fukui prefecture, but has not yet set a date to do so. The Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) must then sign off on the process. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) head Yukio Edano, and Nuclear Crisis Minister Goshi Hosono will make the final decision about whether to restart the reactors. However, it’s not clear when that will take place; although not required by law, local authorities have traditionally granted approval in restarting nuclear reactors in their municipalities. Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa has said he will not grant approval until the government creates new safety guidelines for nuclear reactors.
Japan’s Federation of Electric Power Companies said that nuclear power operators will install vents in pressurized water reactors, for use in case of nuclear emergencies. Because venting allows radioactivity to be released into the atmosphere, the vents will be equipped with filters to reduce contamination levels.
Critics are expressing concern over plans to temporarily house Japan’s new Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA) which is expected to be created in April, in the same building as that of METI and NISA. NISA, which regulates nuclear power, has come under fire for being part of METI, which promotes it. The new agency was supposed to be housed in a new building, but officials are struggling to find a 6,000 square meter location that is earthquake resistant, near the Prime Minister’s office, and located on lower floors of a building. They hope to move to a permanent location by this summer.
Records show that the Vice-Speaker of the town assembly in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, who lobbied hard for the restart of the reactors at the Takahama nuclear power plant, is the owner of a metal processing company that received at least 700 million yen in nuclear-related contracts. Akio Awano, the assemblyman, insists that the money and his contracts have not influenced his opinion. The Takahama plant is operated by Kansai Electric.
A survey by NHK, Japan’s public news television station, shows that over 70% of municipalities in Japan are reluctant to restart the nation’s nuclear power reactors. Respondents expressed concerns about safety, a desire to determine the cause of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and lessons learned, and a need to develop new government safety regulations.
Hiroshi Tasaka, a special advisor to former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is warning that the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is far from over. Tasaka, who is a nuclear engineer and is now a professor at Tama University, notes, “I would say [it] just opened a Pandora’s Box” of problems within the nuclear industry. In particular, Tasaka raised concerns about spent fuel pools, which are less securely contained than nuclear reactors, and are reaching storage limits.
E-mail correspondence from last March, released by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), reveals frustration with a “fog of information” from the Japanese government, as well as internal disagreement on how the unfolding disaster should have been handled. Edwin Lyman, a nuclear expert from the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that the emails show “the level of uncertainty and confusion…and indicates that even US experts had major divisions about what was going on and how to best mitigate the crisis.” The correspondence also exposed concerns about how the public would react to the NRC’s decision to extend the license of the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, which was scheduled for March 16. Worried about appearances, the Commission eventually delayed that announcement until March 21.
A group working to call for a vote against nuclear power in Tokyo says it has collected enough signatures to request a referendum there. The group, which calls itself “Let Everyone Participate in a Referendum on Making Decisions About Nuclear Power,” has gathered 216,063 signatures so far, but hopes to collect at least 300,000 by the end of this week. Assuming that at least 214,236 signatures—which equals one fiftieth of eligible voters in Tokyo—are deemed valid, a petition for a vote on the use of nuclear power will be presented to Governor Shintaro Ishihara.
Meanwhile, a group led by Nobel laureate and novelist Kenzaburo Oe plans to hold rallies around Japan over the next month in an effort to gather 10 million signatures supporting the abolition of all nuclear power in Japan.
Reactor Status
Temperatures in reactor #2 has stabilized at 66.8ºC, down from a high of 73.3ºC. That temperature is still over 20 degrees hotter than it was last week, when temperatures measured 45ºC on January 27. TEPCO has increased water flow into the reactor by 3 tons per hour in an effort to keep the fuel cool. At NISA’s urging, the utility injected boric acid to prevent criticality, which is the point at which self-sustaining nuclear reaction occurs. Almost a year after the disaster, radiation levels near the reactor remain so high that workers have been unable to examine them, and have no idea about the location or condition of the melted fuel within.
Workers at TEPCO are using a remote-controlled underwater camera to examine the spent fuel pool at reactor #4. The work is preparation for removing the fuel, a process the utility hopes to begin in March 2014. There are 1,535 spent fuel rods in the pool.
Contamination (Includes Economic Impact and Human Exposure)
Researchers are warning that a recent drop in atmospheric radioactivity near the Fukushima Daiichi plant was caused by heavy snowfall in Japan, and will probably rise again once the snow melts. They believe that the snow is temporarily blocking the radiation on the ground.
Japan’s central government is asking farmers in Fukushima Prefecture to refrain from planting rice in areas where cesium levels in last year’s harvest exceeded 100 Bq/kg. Farmers are expressing frustration, and in some cases, despair, over the fact that the nuclear disaster has threatened their livelihood.
Scientists from the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute have discovered radioactive cesium measuring as high as 19,000 Bq/kg in earthworms collected from Kawauchi Village, located 30 km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Researchers are concerned that because so many species eat worms, radioactivity could affect the food chain. The Institute said it will continue to monitor cesium levels in the worms.
Ornithologists counting bird populations near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster have noticed a precipitous decline, even greater than that which occurred after the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in 1986. Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina and co-author of the study, said he believes that the birds may be “especially sensitive to radioactive contaminants.”
Other Nuclear News
In a victory for anti-nuclear activists, the Czech Republic’s Industry and Trade Minister, Martin Kuba, announced that only two new nuclear reactors will be built at the country’s Temelin power plant, rather than 18 as first planned. Kuba said that the original plan was “not realistic from an economic perspective.”
Big Miracle: The real-life whale rescue which inspired new Hollywood blockbuster - Mirror.co.uk
Mirror.co.uk
Big Miracle: The real-life whale rescue which inspired new Hollywood blockbuster
Mirror.co.uk
The dramatic bid to free them brought together an unlikely band of allies – including whale-hunting Eskimos, environmentally-unfriendly oil executives, Greenpeace activists and a whale whisperer who reckoned he could scare them out using killer whale ...
Having Drew Barrymore Play Me On Screen - Huffington Post UK
Having Drew Barrymore Play Me On Screen
Huffington Post UK
My Greenpeace tenure began as their Alaska Field Representative in Anchorage, after I had been volunteering on wolf and marine mammal issues for a local group. My only caveat was that I would continue to work on wolves, which they agreed.
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Bigger network, fewer nets - The Economist (blog)
Bigger network, fewer nets
The Economist (blog)
All gawping mouth and bulging eyes, it was called the ugliest fish on the planet by Greenpeace. But when it arrives on a plate under a more appealing name, Chilean sea bass, it is becomes a tasty—and expensive—restaurant dish.
An ill wind of change? - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
An ill wind of change?
Telegraph.co.uk
“We're going to need a range of clean energy resources, including both onshore and offshore wind,” says Louise Hutchins, of Greenpeace. Paul Steedman, senior campaigner for Friends of the Earth, agrees. “Let's face it, we've got some of the best wind ...
Ed Davey throws weight behind green energy by opening giant UK windfarmBusiness Green
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