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Two Greenpeace activists have been charged with theft and trespass after they exposed a major scandal around the embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling program. The prosecutor in Aomori, Japan, today charged Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki with theft and trespass, following three weeks in police detention, despite widespread international protest.

ANCHORAGE, AK—Environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court today arguing that the agency has concealed impacts of old-growth logging to the environment and to subsistence hunting in four Tongass National Forest timber projects. At issue is whether environmental impact statements have thoroughly evaluated the effect of the projects on Sitka black-tailed deer – a species that is key to viability of the "Islands Wolf" (Alexander Archipelago wolf) and is among the most important subsistence foods in the area.

Members of the Greenpeace burst onto the stage at the opening ceremony of the World Wood Summit today at the Chicago Marriott Downtown and called for an end to ancient forest destruction.

A Greenpeace team of international climbers, representing Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia this morning hung a banner over Niagara Falls protesting the destruction of ancient forests in North America. The banner, measuring sixty feet high by thirty feet wide reads "Save Ancient Forests," and displays the Canadian and U.S. flags.

Today students from Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin boarded a plane to Canada to join more than a dozen children from six other countries to voice their opposition to the destruction of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest. The students are working with Greenpeace to express their concern through art. Nearly 400 banners painted by kids from around the globe will be shown to Canadian Government officials. Some of the banners stretch five feet wide, and read "Forests are for Bears, NOT Making Teddy Bears," and "Stop Flushing Our Forests."

Today Greenpeace activists occupied a ship carrying ancient forest wood. The activists locked themselves to equipment on the ship, Saga Wave, preventing it from unloading.

Responding to the decision to end debate on the Climate Security Act, Greenpeace’s Executive Director, John Passacantando, issued the following statement:

Greenpeace activists hung a banner from the roof of a downtown Home Depot store today to protest the sale of wood from British Columbia's Great Bear Rain Forest.

Today Greenpeace activists installed The Home Depot's logo on a clear cut swath of ancient trees in British Columbia, Canada, in protest of the company's refusal to stop selling wood from ancient forests. Greenpeace will present the image of destruction at The Home Depot Annual Shareholders Meeting tomorrow, May 26, in Atlanta, where shareholders will be voting on a resolution there to address the issue of ancient forest destruction.