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Coal protesters board cargo ship

Campaigners from Greenpeace have boarded a ship delivering coal to the Kingsnorth power station in Kent.

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LA Times: Troubles at the sushi bar - Activists target Nobu in Los Angeles

High-end sushi chain Nobu probably hasn't heard the last of Greenpeace, which has extended its campaign against Nobu Matsuhisa's namesake restaurants to the West Coast.
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Daily Telegraph: Ready meals and designer shoes fuelling destruction of the rainforest

British supermarkets are fuelling destruction of the rainforests by selling beef and leather goods from farms responsible for chopping down large areas of trees, according to a report by Greenpeace.

 

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Village Voice: Greenpeace Disrupts Nobu's Saturday Night

This weekend, Greenpeace stopped playing nice with celebrity resteraunt chain Nobu, which persists in serving bluefin tuna, albeit with an asterisk labeling it "environmentally endangered."

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NY Times: In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble

As the Obama administration tries to steer America toward cleaner sources of energy, it would do well to consider the cautionary tale of this new-generation nuclear reactor site.

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Guardian: No tuna, no salmon. No oysters, no skate. No cod and chips

Imagine a world without seafood for supper. It's nearer than you think.

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Guardian: French energy company executive charged with spying on Greenpeace

A senior executive of the French state energy giant EDF, which now owns the main UK nuclear power operator British Energy, has been charged on suspicion of spying on the environmental group Greenpeace.

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New York Times: Britain facing hard slog to 2020 renewable energy targets

Beset by an outdated grid, escalating costs and delays at massive offshore wind farms, and a domestic biofuels industry priced out by US imports, the UK will struggle toward its 2020 renewable energy targets.

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Guardian: Heathrow's third runway: planning for aviation boom times is no way to deal with economic bust

Even without the overwhelming environmental case against airport expansion, the economic case is crumbling too

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Guardian: Green lobby and nuclear groups clash over role of renewable energy

"We've always said that nuclear power will undermine renewable energy and will damage the UK's efforts to tackle climate change – now EDF agrees," said Nathan Argent, head of Greenpeace's energy solutions unit.

 

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Guardian: 'Amazon is both victim and villain'

Paulo Adario, Greenpeace's Amazon director, explains why Amazon deforestation is a  global problem which must be treated with seriousness by the global community.

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Guardian: Row over UN's call for increased fish farming

Fish farming is booming, but it's not sustainable.
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Independent: How a tagged television set uncovered a deadly trade

Greenpeace and Sky News tracked a television sent for recycling in the UK to its eventual destination in Nigeria, where electronic waste from the EU is sold, scrapped or illegally dumped.

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The Economist: Underwater treasures

"The End of the Line" is a feature-length film based on a 2004 book by Charles Clover, the environment editor of London’s Daily Telegraph, which exposes the effects of overfishing on oceans and those who depend on them for food.

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BBC: General calls for Trident rethink

The UK should take a lead on nuclear disarmament by giving up its Trident weapons system, a retired Nato military commander has said.

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