Formed in 1971 by a group of Canadian and expatriate American Sierra Club members who wanted a more active form of environmentalism, Greenpeace is a global environmental organization with offices in 23 countries and international headquarters in...

The Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, sailing up the St. George's Channel off the west...

Greenpeace is the largest environmental organization in the world with 2.8 million supporters worldwide and national as well as regional offices in forty-one countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific. It is a nonprofit organization...

An international organisation that grew from a protest group set up in 1971 to stop nuclear testing by the USA at Amchitka Island, Alaska, through a process of direct action. Since then they have grown into probably the major environmental campaign...

Greenpeace is an environmental activist group founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971 to oppose the U.S. testing nuclear devices in Alaska. The focus of the organization later turned to other environmental issues, and it become known for...

Greenpeace gave Microsoft and Nintendo abysmal rankings Tuesday on their efforts to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles.Nintendo Co. became the first company to score zero out of a possible 10 points in the Greenpeace ranking of 18 leading electronics companies. It provided...

Eight Greenpeace members prevented from leaving an Amazon town for more than 24 hours by loggers and angry residents were escorted away peacefully Wednesday by authorities.The activists, however, were unable to depart with the scorched tree trunk they wanted to take with them for an...

Microsoft and Nintendo are taking too long to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles, and TV producers Philips and Sharp have poor policies on taking back and recycling outdated products, Greenpeace said Tuesday in its latest environmental ranking of leading electronics companies.Adding the...

Hundreds of loggers and angry residents have surrounded eight Greenpeace members who tried to leave an Amazon town with a scorched tree trunk for an exhibit on global warming, the environmental group said Wednesday.The activists are holed up in the makeshift headquarters of the federal...