Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
The foreigner came to India to teach us a lesson. The lesson - do not follow the West blindly - was delivered in Delhi a few weeks ago by the environment giant, Greenpeace. Greenpeace has just completed a study of the pollution being caused by the chlorine industry. The study's …
Analysis of over 100 effluent, sludge and soil samples from industrial sites in New Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu indicate the presence of more than the permissible levels of POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants). POPs
factory trawlers operating in the north Pacific seem to be in the eye of a storm generated by Greenpeace activists in the us . The Seattle-based fleet of floating fish factories is allegedly pushing fish stocks off Alaska's shores. The port of Seattle police arrested 11 people after Greenpeace protesters …
My friend Paul Wapner, assistant professor of environmental politics at the American University in Washington, Dc, has just published a book, Environmental Activism and World Politics. He argues that international relations is no longer the domain of governments, as most scholars in the field continue to believe. Civil society, aided …
THE Russian Supreme Court's judgement was toud and clear: no to nuclear waste. And claiming a pat on its back was Greenpeace, the international environmental organisation, which had moved the Court on Russian plans to import nuclear waste from the western nations for reprocessing. The landmark judgement was all the …
WITH over 60 per cent of the world's reserves of non-tropical and largest stretch of boreal forests in the world, Russia holds the most important carbon pool in the northern hemisphere. A recent decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to include the virgin forests of Russia's …
IN a world primarily by the dynamics of the global Market,where rules are made and broken at the whims of Corporate gaint, a parallel force is slowly but steadily gaining Ground. It is the force of the people - of the indigenous commmunities and minority groups fighting to assert their …
Grecripeace, the international environmental group has targetted France once again. Suing the country in a US court in Los Angeles, it has demanded the return of its ship and one million dollars in damages. Mark Serlin, the attorney for the environmental group after filing the lawsuit on October 17, said …
AUSTRALIAN premier Paul Keating called it .an act of stupidity," and the rest of the world exploded in anger - but Paris remained undeterred. In the wee hours of Septembei 6, the French did what they had resolved to do 3 months ago: they set off the first of the …
FRANCE's nuclear testing shenanigans the Mururoa atoll have caused an international furore (see Down to Earth, 31, 1995). Among the most hostile ics of the French moves on the atol the international environmental gram Greenpeace. The group claims that 45 founder David McTaggart and 2 grove members had infiltrated the …
Ever since Rachel Carson's famous expose of pesticides, chlorine and its chemical allies have been on the hit-list of environmentalist. DDT was banned in 1972, followed by PCBs in 1978. Two decades later, CFCs were sentenced to a phase-out for violating the sacred ozone-space. And now, with the recent US …
The pulp and paper industry is the world's second largest consumer of chlorine and the greatest source of toxic organochlorine discharges directly into the waterways. Although dozens of mills across the world are now producing high-quality, bright paper using totally chlorine-free (TCF) technology, most of the world's producers have yet …
A domestic but prolific generator of organochlorines is the homely dry-cleaning business. Over 90 per cent of alndry-'ters use chlorine-based perchloroethylene (perc) to clean clothes. Some 3 million pounds of this highly toxic chemical are annually by the industry in the US and Canada alone. Dry-cleaners are the single largest …
The US Environmental Protection Agency is likely to cut down or ban the production of chlorine and compounds containing it. However, many scientists believe that even were manufacture of chlorine-containing chemicals to be prohibited, their creation would not cease. Nature produces many of them, more than 1500, with more being …
Paper companies: 55 mills now produce totally chlorine free, high-quality bleached pulp. Province of Ontario: Pulp mills must eliminate organachlorine discharges by 2002. British Columbia: Pulp mills here must eliminate grganochlorine discharges by 2002. Sweden National: Goal to end toxic discharges from-Ifie-company pulp mills by 2000. International Joint Commission on …
In May of 1993 the British medical journal The Lancet published a paper by a Danish researcher that linked a global decline in sperm counts in healthy men over the past 50 years to accumulation of estrogenlike compounds, mainly organochlorines, in the environment. While enviros grabbed the study as another …
AS the disused Brent Spar oil platform makes its slow journey towards its disposal site in the Atlantic, irate protests to bring it to a stop have reached a crescendo, particularly in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, neighbouring the North Sea. Facing the barrage are the United Kingdom and …
ACTIVISTS of the environmental group - Greenpeace stopped a ship from dumping toxic wastes off Israel's coast. This incident occured in the first week of May, this year. To stall the dumping, inflatable Green-peace boats circled the Israeli ship - carrying toxic waste from the Haifa Chemicals Ltd company- off …
