The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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First birthday
Although setting up of the EPA did result in policies to control pollution, political interference has blunted its effectiveness
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Follow Up
California community activists have joined hands with local and international environmental justice organisations in denouncing plans to re-dump mercury-conta minated waste near Westmoreland,
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Poisoning the Yamuna
A study on polychlorinated biphenyls in five stations along the Yamuna river indicates the presence of high levels of these toxic pollutants in the water
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Seas of despair
Heavy metals are polluting the North Sea. And there is nothing we can do
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BRAZIL
Greenpeace activists from Brazil, Argentina, Spain, usa, Germany and Ghana cemented a discharge pipe belonging to a Dow Chemicals plant at Guaruja in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The pipe,
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FOLLOW UP
The stand-off between Greenpeace activists and a shipping company at Botany Bay harbour in Sydney, Australia, has come as a wake-up call for South Asian countries where ship-breaking is a growing and
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Dump and forget
The US refuses to take back the toxic waste it dumped in Haiti
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MAXICO
Greenpeace, an environment organisation has accused the state-owned petroleum company, Petro leos Mexicanos (Pemex), of violating conservation laws by dumping vast amounts of toxic wastes into
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Dam in protest
GREEN PEACE activists have built a dam on Israel's Kishon river to block toxic effluents from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. The effluents are mainly discharged by the heavy petrochemical
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Dirt in the Sea
THE Danish dragger ship "Skandia" is illegally dumping toxic waste from the Israeli fertiliser company Haifa Chemicals in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea, according to Greenpeace.