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.
Honduran Environmental Activists 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 […]
Greengrants Featured in the New York Times
Romanian grantee Alburnus Maior and Global Greengrants Fund featured on the front page of the Business Section of the New York Times on January 3, 2007, regarding the struggle of gold mining in a Transylvanian village.