Chernobyl 25 years later: contaminated food a part of daily life
  It’s been 25 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. While for some it may be a distant memory or something to read about in history books, people living near Chernobyl are still affected in their daily lives. Last month, Greenpeace went to Ukraine to investigate and found that the local people live with the disaster every day in health effects and in contaminated food supplies. Get the first-hand account from Iris, one of our Climate and Energy Campaigners based in Hong Kong, who traveled to Chernobyl to witness the terrible consequences of this nuclear disaster - her blog includes interviews and images from some of the victims of Chernobyl.   Activists occupy oil rig bound for Arctic drillingOver the weekend 11 brave activists occupied the world's second largest oil rig, the Leiv Eiriksson, which was en route to begin drilling in Arctic waters. They were there to call for an end to reckless deepwater drilling, and also to highlight the choice before us - we can choose clean energy, we can go beyond oil. Read more about their efforts to protect one of the most fragile environments on our planet &see updates and images from the activists. Did somebody forward this message to you? Then SIGN UP HERE Rainbow Warrior to conduct marine radiation monitoring off FukushimaThe Rainbow Warrior is sailing to Japan with a Greenpeace radiation monitoring team to conduct marine monitoring in the waters around Fukushima. We've had other radiation teams in the field testing food, soil and the evacuation zone around the nuclear plant in the weeks since the disaster. The radioactive water leaking from the damaged plant means that we have extended those monitoring activities to the ocean near Fukushima. You can get more information about the consequences of the nuclear disaster in Japan in the blog updates from our radiation monitoring teams.  Interested in volunteering? Greenpeace International | |||
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