NPR on Conditions in La Oroya, Peru
La Oroya, Peru has been voted one of the ten most polluted places on earth. NPR discusses conditions for workers in a nationally-aired ‘Marketplace’ piece.
Sunita Narain and India’s Center for Science and Environment Profiled in Nature
A previous Greengrants grantee, the Center for Science and Environment, has been instrumental in achieving cleaner air and water in Delhi. Read more in Nature’s February 15, 2007 Issue.
National Geographic Focus on Nigeria
National Geographic’s February 2007 issue depicts the impacts that oil and gas development have had in the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
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 […]
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.”