On December 3, 1984, twenty-seven tons of lethal pesticide fumes leaked from Union Carbide’s factory in Bhopal, India. The leak immediately killed about 8,000 people and injured more than 500,000. Tens of thousands have died from the toxic exposure in the years since, and the death toll continues to rise as a result [...]

Greenpeace today challenged Bayer to stop contaminating the world’s rice supply with GMOs (genetically modified organisms), during a forum on rice genetics sponsored by the giant agrochemical company and hosted by IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) in Manila.

Fr. Roberto Reyes, a staff member of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), is one of the 25 people who joined the protestors–two of whom are Catholic priests and sixteen of whom are Mangyans; as well as seven others. The group has pledged to go on a hunger strike until their demands are met.

Iloilo City, 21 October 2009- Greenpeace activists and Iloilo residents are urging the local government to pull the plug on a plan to operate a coal-fired power plant in this city. The group calls the illegal, premature back-filling of the proposed site, despite the obvious environmental impacts it will create and strong public opposition to [...]

ENVIRONMENT   The news of a United Kingdom firm, Pacific Bio-Fields Holdings Plc., acquiring 400,000 hectares of land in northern Luzon which it can use for 50 years for free may be staggering but not surprising, according to green groups.

Taytay pledges best practice waste dump rehab
Taytay, Rizal, 23 June 2009–The municipality of Taytay has agreed to
adopt stringent procedures on dumpsite closure following a blockade by
Greenpeace Water Patrol activists at the 13 hectare polluting garbage
repository located on the banks of Laguna Lake.
Early this morning, volunteers from Greenpeace shut the gates of the
dumpsite in Barangay Muzon [...]

HUMAN RIGHTS   Does the killing of anti-mining activist Eliezer ‘Boy’ Billanes highlight irregular links between some mining companies and the Philippine military – or was he killed by insurgents because it was feared he was about to be turned into a so-called military asset and informer?

ENVIRONMENT   “DENR Sec. Atienza should by now prepare the revocation of the permit of SMLDC and start to investigate who are the corrupt officials in his office responsible for the project approval.”

ENVIRONMENT   By Ayi Muallam  |  This coming Holy Week, Mount Banahaw and Mount San Cristobal in Southern Tagalog will remain closed to pilgrims and trekkers “to allow the two mountains to “heal” themselves from decades of wanton environmental destruction.”

Nairobi, Kenya – A Philippine environmental group, Ban Toxics, lauded the current US pronouncement calling for a treaty on mercury. Ban Toxics is part of the global non-governmental organization contingent participating at the ongoing 25th Governing Council meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
“This a complete 180 degree turn for the United States, [...]

The world-renowned “Tinoto-Tampuan Reef” in Maasim, Saranggani Province is threatened to be destroyed with the construction of the 200MW Kamanga Power Plant (KPP). This is one of the major reasons why various environmental rights groups oppose the Kamanga Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant.
On 2008, the Alcantara-controlled Conal Holdings Corporation (CHC) announced it will build the [...]

The Philippine government must immediately look into the case of five Mamanwa tribesmen who remain missing since they disappeared on the first day of the barricade their community put up to block mining roads in their ancestral domain last January 29 in Barrangay Taganito, Claver, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center [...]

Militant organizations in Central Luzon, Catholic Bishops, environmental groups, and scientists are one in saying that the planned revival of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is costly and unsafe. They surmise that the nuclear power plant, from which the former dictator Marcos and his cronies earned $80 million in kickbacks, is being revived to become another source of corruption.

Almost two years ago, mercury in schools was a big headline. A mercury spill had occurred in a school in Parañaque, exposing dozens of students to mercury poisoning and creating a clean-up and decontamination effort that cost millions of pesos.
A different and more benign mercury incident is happening at the School of [...]

Scientists and environmental activists picketed in front of the House of Representatives this morning to denounce plans of reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The protesters brought an effigy of a coffin to symbolize their contention that the BNPP is long dead and should be permanently put to the grave.
The bill seeking the plant’s [...]