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Greenpeace activists attempt to climb London's Shard
2013-07-11 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A group of activists from Greenpeace was on Thursday attempting to climb the Shard, the tapered 310m glass tower next to London Bridge station, as a protest against oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. In an action that was perhaps inevitable at some point after the completion last year of western Europe's tallest building, visible across much of central London, the six climbers began their ascent in the early hours of the morning. The Twitter feed for Greenpeace UK carried a photograph of the...
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Greenpeace protesters scale the Shard
2013-07-11 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The climbers, who began the stunt in the early hours of this morning, are protesting at oil and gas drilling in the Arctic. The group are named as Ali Garrigan, 27, from Nottinghamshire, Sabine Huyghe, 33, from Ghen in Belgium, Sandra Lamborn, 29, from Stockholm in Sweden, Liesbeth Deddens, 31, from Groningen in the Netherlands, Victoria Henry, 32, from London, and Wiola Smul, 34, from Poland. They are believed to have climbed onto the 72-storey building from the roof of London Bridge station...
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Oil spill from offshore rigs still happening on North Sea, warns Greenpeace
2013-07-09 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace has warned that oil and chemicals have been leaking from UK's offshore rigs and platforms into the North Sea.
Greenpeace launches series of case studies on forest certification standard
2013-06-26 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Activist group Greenpeace says it will publish a series of case studies highlighting examples of good and bad practice among operations certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an eco-standard for forest products. Greenpeace, an FSC member since the body was found in 1993, says that as the standard has expanded, the risk to its credibility has also increased. "Greenpeace fears that as the system has grown, the FSC's implementation and interpretation of its standards have been watered...
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Greenpeace releases dramatic pictures of haze and fires in Indonesia
2013-06-24 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenpeace has released a series of photos from the front lines of the peat fires that are casting a pall of haze and triggering health warnings across Singapore and Malaysia. The images were taken by Getty photographer Ulet Infansasti in Sumatra, where the fires are burning. Greenpeace also released photographs taken by Ferina Natasya in Singapore, where the haze is causing record air pollution. Analysis of NASA hotspot data has revealed that the majority of fires are occurring within plantation...
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