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Scrap 52 GW thermal projects to avert water scarcity: Greenpeace
2016-03-24 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: The situation is particularly critical in China where 45% of coal-fired power plants are in areas of water over-withdrawal, followed by India and Turkey at 13%. Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will nearly double if all the world's planned power plants come online. This would cause severe drought and worsen the ongoing conflict between agriculture and industry over water in regions such as Vidarbha and Marathwada in Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka....
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Locals eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests
2016-03-09 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Economic crises convulsing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mean testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been cut or restricted, Greenpeace said, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. According to scientific tests conducted on behalf of the environmental campaigning group, overall contamination from key isotopes such as caesium-137 and strontium-90 has fallen somewhat, but lingers, especially in places such as forests. People...
Greenpeace says China increasing coal-fired capacity
2016-03-02 12:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday that China had a total of 210 coal power projects in the pipeline"for environmental assessment permitting at the end of 2015, despite overcapacity in the industry and pollution concerns. Of those, 95 projects received final regulatory permits that would allow construction to begin, Greenpeace said in a report. Construction began on at least 66 coal power projects with a combined capacity of 73 gigawatts (GW), Greenpeace added, some of which had received approval...
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Greenpeace Launches Investigation Into Radiation Impacts of Fukushima Disaster on Pacific Ocean
2016-02-26 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Greenpeace Japan today announced it is conducting an underwater investigation into radiation contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The survey will be conducted from a Japanese research vessel using a one of a kind Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), fitted with sensitive gamma radiation spectrometer and sediment sampler. On the opening day of the investigation, Mr Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister of Japan and leader at the time of the nuclear accident,...
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Greenpeace targets rich French businessman with protest
2016-02-25 18:04:08| Food - Topix.net
Greenpeace activists are targeting a rich French businessman in Paris who has shares in a company they accuse of causing deforestation in South East Asia and Africa. The activists plastered a large banner across the side of powerful CEO Vincent Bollore's company headquarters that said: "Bollore hard in business, not kind with forests."
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