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US Starts Landmark Agent Orange Cleanup in Vietnam
Video 2:23. A weapon used in the war long since won and lost, but where the casualties keep coming. Agent Orange was one of the main toxic sprays that the US military deployed in Southeast Asia to destroy the jungles and forests being used by their Vietnamese enemies for resupply and prot...
Wyden amendment cheers industrial hemp supporters
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden proposed an amendment to the U.S. Farm Bill that would exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana, allowing farmers to grow the crop that advocates say has many uses and sustainable benefits. The proposed amendment to the Agriculture Reform, Food, and J...
Vermont 1st State to Ban Natural Gas Fracking
Video :53. Vermont has become the first U.S. state to ban the natural gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. On Wednesday, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the measure into law at a ceremony attended by environmentalists and a group of high school students who pus...
Tar Sands: World's Largest Destructive Energy Project
Video 10:13. A massive mobilization of people from all over North America will converge on Washington DC to demand the end to the world's largest destructive dirty energy project. Canada's Tar Sands operations - One of the largest destructive and dirtiest energy projects in the world. ...



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Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
In March, Hungary introduced a new regulation that states seeds must be checked for GMO before they are introduced to the market. Howev...
24 Hours of Reality Globally On September 14
Video 1:28. What can change in a day? Everything. On September 14, the world will focus its attention on the truth about the climate c...
270,000 Organic Farmers Sue Agri Giant Monsanto
Organic v, Monsanto By Danielle Magnuson. More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a law...
Tim DeChristopher: Not Mercy, I Want You To Join Me
Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for 'disrupting' a Bureau of Land Manage...
The Gift of Clean Water, an Experiment in Community
Video 4min 1sec.This is a story of two communities. First are the people behind me. And one of their challenges is access to clean and ...
Sunflowers to Clean Radioactive Soil in Japan
Campaigners in Japan are asking people to grow sunflowers, said to help decontaminate radioactive soil, in response to the Fukushima ...
Video: Obama: Green Jobs for a Green Future
Video (5min 1sec): Obama: Green Jobs for a Green Future: Green Roofing. "This is the kind of stuff that President Obama gets super e...
Video: Greenpeace - This Fragile Earth Needs Action
Video (3min): Greenpeace - This Fragile Earth Needs Action. Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs...
Video: Susan Sarandon: We Need an Energy [R]evolution
Video (1min 17sec): Reasons to Believe: Lightbulbs (with Susan Sarandon). The Energy [R]evolution is Greenpeace's plan to save the p...
Video: The Key to Reversing Global Fisheries Decline
Video (12min 30sec): Marine Reserves may be the Key to Reversing Global Fisheries Decline. A growing body of scientific evidence tha...
Video: Cate Blanchett Talks About SolarAid
Video (1min 12sec): Cate Blanchett Talks SolarAid. Cate Blanchett, patron of new charity SolarAid, explains how solar power can be u...
Video: Ashley Judd Against Mountaintop Coal Mining
Video (2min 7sec): Ashley Judd Speaks Out Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. February 2009: A controversial legal ruling allow...
Video: Keeping the Pressure on Kimberly-Clark
Video (2min 14sec): Keeping the Pressure on Kimberly-Clark. Several Greenpeace activists locked down the main entrance to Kimberly-Cla...
Video: Anti-Coal Day on Capitol Hill
Video (5min 57sec): Anti-Coal Day on Capitol Hill. This weekend, twelve thousand students converged on Washington demanding the U.S....
Video: Gore Urges Action on Economy, Global Warming
Video (1min 59sec): Gore Urges Action on Economy, Global Warming. Former Vice President Al Gore urged lawmakers Wednesday not to let...