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Greenpeace UK as a core member of the Big If coalition sends a video to Ed Milliband – NO to dirty coal. What will you do for the Big If?

Supermarkets are driving destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products…

Not every barrel of oil has the same carbon footprint – some extraction processes radically increase the amount of greenhouse gases which are released. A report from Greenpeace singles out Shell as the most carbon intensive oil company in the world…

Forests covering an area the size of the Isle of Wight could be felled under controversial Government plans which would increase the UK’s carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to putting an extra 172,000 cars on the road…

Green News Round-up #15

by Paul on Friday, 17 April 2009 · 1 comment

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Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up…

Green News Round-up #10

by Paul on Friday, 13 March 2009 · 1 comment

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Each Friday we’ll bring you a round-up of the week’s green news from around the web. Please drop us a line if you know of a story we should include in the next round-up…

Soaring demand for palm oil is accelerating the destruction of the Indonesian rainforests, a tragedy for the forests and the people and animals who depend on them – and a disaster for the global climate. This Greenpeace video reveals the cause and extent of the damage…

As government ministers in the UK were approving plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, Greenpeace and other environmental campaigners were busy buying up land on the proposed site of the new runway…

Coal industry bosses and major coal users meeting in Poland yesterday, ahead of the UN Climate Negotiations in Poznan, got a gift of 5 tonnes of coal from Greenpeace activists. Check out the video to see what happened…