Greenpeace activists have built a new underwater ‘boulder barrier’ in a protected area of the English Channel to stop a hugely harmful fishing practice. In total 18 boulders, each weighing about three tonnes and carrying the name of a celebrity endorser, were dropped this week from the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Offshore Brighton marine protected … Read more
Contaminated water with the potential to damage human DNA could soon be released into the Pacific Ocean, Greenpeace claims. The utility company operating the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, said last year it will run out of space to store massive quantities of it by 2022. This has added immense pressure on the … Read more
A barrier of boulders in the North Sea designed to prevent destructive bottom trawling has been completed by environmental charity Greenpeace. Greenpeace has placed boulders across the seabed of the 47 square mile Dogger Bank protection area to create a ‘bottom trawler exclusion zone’. The final two boulders in the ‘barrier’ were worked into ‘full … Read more
Supertrawlers should be banned from fishing in UK owned Protected Marine Areas, according to Greenpeace, who say the giant ‘factory ships’ are ‘destructive’. The controversial fishing vessels can be more than 328 feet long and ‘vacuum’ up huge quantities of fish every day as they move through the water. A Greenpeace study found that 25 … Read more