Honduran Environmental Defenders Murdered
On Dec. 20, 2006, two activists with the Environmental Movement of Olancho (MAO) were shot to death in the Honduran department of Olancho.
India: Bhopal — ‘The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster’
On December 3, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. According to the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, more than 27 tons of methyl isocyanate and other deadly gases “turned the city into a gas chamber.” The […]
Update: Another Victory in New Caledonia
Environmental activists gained a further victory in New Caledonia when a French court ordered a halt to construction of the multi-billion dollar Goro nickel mine.
Skoll Foundation Recognizes Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is profiled in latest Skoll Foundation update.
Interview with Lucille Apis Overhoff, New Greengrants Advisor
Greengrants’ new Pacific Islands advisor brings a broad range of experience as environmental activist, administrator and scholar, but also a lifetime of respect for “kepikipik kan ” — “the gift of creation.”